Epidemic Encounters
Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20
A multidisciplinary exploration of Canada’s experience of illness and death during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic.
- Copyright year: 2012
Try to Control Yourself
The Regulation of Public Drinking in Post-Prohibition Ontario, 1927-44
A fascinating history that challenges common assumptions of how the Ontario government attempted to regulate licensed public drinking after the repeal of prohibition.
- Copyright year: 2012
A Healthy Society
How a Focus on Health can Revive Canadian Democracy
A doctor’s eye view of the determinants of health and frontline stories of patient experiences.
- Copyright year: 2012
Health in Rural Canada
This topical, comprehensive volume surveys the current state of rural health and health care across Canada to enhance our knowledge of health differences and similarities across Canadian geographies.
- Copyright year: 2012
Being Relational
Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law
This groundbreaking collection explores relational theory and how it can be brought to bear on practical areas of concern in health law and policy.
- Copyright year: 2012
Feminist Community Research
Case Studies and Methodologies
Researchers from multiple disciplines discuss the potential and the challenges of feminist community research.
- Copyright year: 2011
Maintaining Recovery from Eating Disorders
Avoiding Relapse and Recovering Life
Written with the aim of helping those in recovery discover their own unique insights and passions and awaken a desire to enjoy life to the fullest, this positive and life-affirming book will be an invaluable aid for anyone in recovery from an eating disorder.
- Copyright year: 2011
Chasing Molecules
Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
Chasing Molecules explores the development of green chemistry as an alternative to the dangerous synthetic chemicals found in countless consumer products.
- Copyright year: 2011
Chair Yoga
Seated Exercises for Health and Wellbeing
Chair yoga is a revolutionary concept designed to make the numerous benefits of classical yoga available to a wider range of physical abilities.
- Copyright year: 2011
A Parent's Guide to Defeating Eating Disorders
Spotting the Stealth Bomber and Other Symbolic Approaches
This book is packed with metaphorical explanations that will allow parents and caregivers to ally themselves with treatment rather than the eating disorder, and take positive steps with their child towards a full and lasting recovery.
- Copyright year: 2011
Feminist Ethics and Social Policy
Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care
This volume addresses the theoretical and practical relationships among the feminization of migrant labour, the ethics of care, and social policy in the new global economy.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Handbook of Bach Flower Remedies for Animals
This practical handbook explains how Bach Flower Remedies can be highly effective for treating both behavioral and physical complaints in animals.
- Copyright year: 2011
Chinese Shamanic Cosmic Orbit Qigong
Esoteric Talismans, Mantras, and Mudras in Healing and Inner Cultivation
Master Wu describes the practice of Chinese Shamanic Cosmic Orbit Qigong in detail, and explains the therapeutic benefits and talismanic aspects.
- Copyright year: 2011
Essential Tai Ji
This classic book distills the basics of the art of Tai Ji, lovingly presented in eloquent writing, and accompanied by splendid full colour photography and beautiful calligraphy.
- Copyright year: 2011
Health Inequities in Canada
Intersectional Frameworks and Practices
Highlights the potential of intersectionality as a research paradigm for the health sciences.
- Copyright year: 2011
Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain
The Essence of Tai Ji
The seminal classic text of Taoism and Tai Ji.
- Copyright year: 2011
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
Support for Family and Friends
This accessible introduction to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome offers much-needed information and support to the friends, families, and caregivers of people who have the condition.
- Copyright year: 2011
Who will I be when I die?
Christine Bryden offers rare first-hand insights into dementia, and how it feels to gradually lose the ability to undertake tasks most people take for granted.
- Copyright year: 2011
A Tai Chi Imagery Workbook
Spirit, Intent, and Motion
This innovative book makes the benefits of Tai Chi directly available to Westerners by communicating its essence in poetic, evocative, and humorous images.
- Copyright year: 2011
Taking Medicine
Women's Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930
Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine by bringing to light the healing work of Aboriginal and settler women in southern Alberta.
- Copyright year: 2010
Lost Kids
Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States
Distinguished historians and social scientists consider the under-representation, demonization, and inadequate care of vulnerable children in twentieth-century Canada and the United States.
- Copyright year: 2009
More Moments in Time
Images of Exemplary Nursing
Perry’s weaving of interviewee’s stories and her own field notes and poetry creates a very personal perspective on nursing that leaves the reader with a greater understanding of the experience, and rewards, of caring for others.
- Copyright year: 2009
Healing Traditions
The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
- Copyright year: 2008
Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery
Information and Resource Guide
Before and After Radical Prostate Surgery is a research-based, comprehensive, and comprehensible resource on prostate surgery in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2008
Criminal Artefacts
Governing Drugs and Users
By looking curiously on the criminal addict as an artefact of criminal justice, this book asks us to question why the criminalized drug user has become such a focus of contemporary criminal justice practices.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Caregiver
A Life with Alzheimer's
- Copyright year: 2008
No Place to Go
Local Histories of the Battered Women’s Shelter Movement
The first history of the battered women’s shelter movement in Canada, this book traces the development of transition houses and services for abused women and the campaign that made wife battering a political issue.
- Copyright year: 2007
Nutrition Policy in Canada, 1870-1939
Examines the beginnings and early evolution of nutrition policy developments in Canada from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War.
- Copyright year: 2006
Rethinking Domestic Violence
Dutton’s rethinking of the fundamentals of intimate partner violence is essential reading for psychologists, policy makers, and those dealing with the sociology of social science, the relationship of psychology to law, and explanations of adverse behaviour.
- Copyright year: 2006
Protecting Aboriginal Children
This is the first book to document emerging practice in Aboriginal communities and describe child protection practice simultaneously from the point of view of the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal social worker.
- Copyright year: 2005
Obstructed Labour
Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery
- Copyright year: 2006
Cross-Cultural Caring, 2nd ed.
A Handbook for Health Professionals
This new edition provides up-to-date statistics and fresh analysis of changing trends in immigration, describes ethno-cultural community, discussing such issues as childbirth, mental illness, dental care, hospitalization, and death, as well as home country culture, common reasons for emigrating, and challenges in adjusting to a new culture.
- Copyright year: 2005
Building Health Promotion Capacity
Action for Learning, Learning from Action
Explores the professional practice of health promotion and, in particular, how individuals and organizations can become more effective in undertaking and supporting such practice.
- Copyright year: 2005
First Do No Harm
Making Sense of Canadian Health Reform
Is there a crisis in Canadian health care? This book provides a concise introduction to the fundamentals of health care in Canada and examine various ideas for reforming the system sensibly.
- Copyright year: 2002
Fatal Consumption
Rethinking Sustainable Development
Taking the slogan "think globally, act locally" to heart, the contributors to this book offer both an understanding of the present and hope for a sustainable future.
- Copyright year: 2000
Drugs-Nutrients
An Interaction Guide
- Copyright year: 2001
Injury and the New World of Work
Examines a broad range of research solutions and policy options for dealing with the critical state of workers' compensation.
- Copyright year: 2000
Colonizing Bodies
Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-50
This detailed but highly readable ethnohistory shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved among Canada’s most populous Aboriginal population.
- Copyright year: 1998
Environmental Health Risks and Public Policy
Decision Making in Free Societies
- Copyright year: 1994