When patients visit a clinic or hospital, they bring stories of the everyday life conditions that made them sick in the first place – stories about where they work, live, and play; stories about income, food security, and housing....
Social medicine
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Author:Bresnahan, Andrew, Brindamour, Mahli, Charles, Christopher, Meili, RyanSummary: -
Author:Maté, GaborSummary:From our most trusted and compassionate authority on stress, trauma, and mental well-being—a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and...
- Author:Porter, RoySummary:
A definitive study of the history of medicine, from the earliest humans to the present day. Medicine is advancing at an incredible rate. We now have the ability to overcome sickness but also to transform the nature of life itself: in...
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Author:Segall, AlexanderSummary:Now in its second edition, Pursuing Health and Wellness looks beyond health as a mere absence of disease and explores the structural and behavioural factors that affect it. Viewing health as a social construct, authors Alexander Segall...
- Author:Downe, PamelaSummary:
This engaging ethnography explores how Indigenous women and their communities practice collective care to sustain traditional lifeways in what has been called Canada's "HIV hot zone."
- Author:Raphael, DennisSummary:
This book is an introduction to issues of the social determinants of health. Social determinants of health of the living and working conditions that shape whether we remain healthy or become ill the social determinants of health are...
