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Aboriginal peoples in Canada have diverse cultures but share common social and political challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness.

When Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s best-known abortion rights advocate, died in 2013, activists and scholars began to reassess the state of abortion in the country.

Community Mental Health in Canada offers a timely, critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada, past, present, and future.

The Industrial Diet chronicles the long-term transformation of food from a natural resource into an edible commodity that far too often fails to nourish us.

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 in

Health activist, scholar, award-winning journalist, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt investigates the relationship between patient advocacy groups and the pharmaceutical industry as well as the cont

Income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports; far more than the actions of physicians, nurses, and other health care providers, it is these conditions that mak

2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist. 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner. 2017 Joe Shuster Award Nominee. Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37.

When Laura Holmes Haddad was diagnosed with cancer, she found somber survival books instead of the straight talk she needed. There had to be a better way.

Dr. Joe Tatta teaches you how to regain control of your life by breaking the cycle of persistent pain. Following Dr.

Eliminate avoidable toxins, mitigate the effects of those you can't avoid, and enjoy a longer life with this essential health guide from a pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Joe Pizzorno.

This book simplifies the huge body of science, research, and advice that is available today and reveals the undeniable consensus: a whole foods, plant-based diet is the optimum diet for health and

Exposing the overdiagnosis of everything from high blood pressure to prostate and breast cancers, Dr.

Ellen Notbohm's Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew has won the Bronze Medal in Psychology in the Foreword Book of the Year Awards, 2013, winner of an iParenting Media Award and Hono

The global battle against AIDS is set against the life and death of Nkosi Johnson, a young South African boy who, despite having been born with the ailment, became a symbol of the struggle against