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UBC Press A Healthy Future

WEBA Healthy Future is a riveting tale of that challenging time and an important guide to better times ahead. Rachel Notley, former premier of Alberta. Ryan Meili has a …

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Making Healthy Places, Second Edition

WEBThe first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environments and human health. …

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Observation in Health and Social Care

WEBObservation in Health and Social Care - Applications for Learning, Research and Practice with Children and Adults; One of the key skills in effective health and social care is …

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UBC Press Upstream Medicine

WEBUpstream Medicine - Doctors for a Healthy Society; Upstream Medicine features interviews with physicians who are identifying and addressing the upstream …

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The Aging–Disability Nexus

WEBKatie Aubrecht is a Canada Research Chair in Health Equity and Social Justice, the director of the Spatializing Care: Intersectional Disability Studies Lab, and …

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Good Days, Bad Days

WEBGood Days, Bad Days - The Self and Chronic Illness in Time; Millions of American suffer chronic illness, but what is life really like when you are chronically ill? Drawing on …

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UBC Press Community Organizing and Community Building for …

WEBThe fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with …

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UBC Press Digit Ratio

WEBDigit Ratio - A Pointer to Fertility, Behavior, and Health; Could the length of your fingers indicate a predisposition to breast cancer? Or musical genius? Or homosexuality? In …

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UBC Press Disability Injustice

WEBKelly Fritsch is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She is the co-author, with Anne McGuire, of We …

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UBC Press A Complex Exile

WEBA Complex Exile is poised to shift Canada’s approach to addressing homelessness. This book highlights the importance of permanently changing the ways in which we react to …

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UBC Press A Town Called Asbestos

WEBA Town Called Asbestos - Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community; A mining town’s proud and painful history is unearthed to reveal …

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Brock Chisholm, the World Health Organization, and the Cold …

WEBThe right to health is one of the fundamental rights to which every human being is entitled, without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition. The …

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UBC Press Critical Disability Theory

WEBThe essays in this collection demonstrate how social values, institutional priorities, and political will have identified current concepts of ‘disability’; at the same time, these …

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Moving Aboriginal Health Forward

WEBMoving Aboriginal Health Forward - Discarding Canada’s Legal Barriers; Boyer paints an historical picture of how government policies and institutions have …

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An Environmental History of Canada

WEBAcknowledgments. This book began in the early 1990s, when I . started to rethink Canadian history from an environmental perspective. I developed an

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UBC Press Epidemic Encounters

WEBIntroduction / Magda Fahrni and Esyllt Jones Part 1: Public Responses to the Influenza Pandemic in Canada. 1 The Limits of Necessity: Public Health, Dissent, …

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Cross-Cultural Caring

WEBContents Acknowledgments / vii Introduction: The Need for Culturally Sensitive Health Care / 1 Nancy Waxler-Morrison and Joan M. Anderson 1 People of Central American …

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UBC Press Assisted Suicide in Canada

WEBUBC Press. In 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the criminal laws prohibiting assisted suicide and voluntary active euthanasia. Parliament then …

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Edited by Olena Hankivsky

WEBEdited by Olena Hankivsky with Sarah de Leeuw, Jo-Anne Lee, Bilkis Vissandjée, and Nazilla Khanlou. Health Inequities in Canada: Intersectional Frameworks and

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