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  • About Canada: Dental Care

    by Brandon Doucet ...
    Series Book 15 - About Canada
    Dental care is excluded from Canada’s universal healthcare system, with services provided based on the ability to pay. Our dental-care system is leading large segments of the population to neglect care, resulting in poor oral health and all of its consequences. This book examines the history of dentistry in Canada, demonstrating how private business interests have prevailed over public health. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy

    by Courtney Jung ...
    Social scientist and mother Courtney Jung explores the ever-expanding world of breastfeeding advocacy, shining a new light on the diverse communities who compose it, the dubious science behind it, and the pernicious public policies to which it has given riseIs breast really best? Breastfeeding is widely assumed to be the healthiest choice, yet growing evidence suggests that its benefits have been ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Series Book 1 - About Canada
    Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public health care is unsustainable, especially in light of the baby boomer generation reaching retirement ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Medical Ethics For Dummies

    by Jane Runzheimer, Linda Johnson Larsen ...
    A practical, insightful guide to the moral and ethical standards of healthcareSucceeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices, and so much ... Read more

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  • Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management, Second Edition

    Edited by Catherine L. Mah, Raisa B. Deber ...
    Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases have been developed with input from mid-career professionals with strong field experience and extensively tested in Raisa B. Deber’s graduate case study ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    The Global Politics of Population Control

    by Betsy Hartmann ...
    "Those involved in women's health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought" ( Kirkus Reviews).This is an updated edition of the "influential study" ( Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs.Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calling the Shots

    Why Parents Reject Vaccines

    by Jennifer A Reich ...
    An award-winning book "brings meticulousness and sensitivity to this emotional issue. . . . [and] may prove the most convincing to anti-vaxxers" ( New York Review of Books).The measles outbreak at Disneyland in December 2014 spread to a half-dozen U.S. states and sickened 147 people. It is just one recent incident that the medical community blames on the nation's falling vaccination rates. Still, ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The One Best Way?

    Breastfeeding History, Politics, and Policy in Canada

    by Tasnim Nathoo, Aleck Ostry ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food supply, and public health concerns such as health care costs and the obesity “epidemic.”Breastfeeding has officially been considered “the one best way” for feeding infants for the past 150 years of ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Bioethics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Bonnie Steinbock, Paul T. Menzel ...
    Series series WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
    The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any? Should women be paid to donate eggs? Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know ® discusses these and other similar questions facing the public today- ... Read more

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  • The Global Biopolitics of the IUD

    How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies

    by Chikako Takeshita ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility control in the global South and the third most prevalent in the global North. Over its five decades of use ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Genetic Privacy and Discrimmination

    An Overview of Selected Major Issues

    by Eugene Oscapella ...
    Like advances in many fields, those involving genetics bring both benefits and dangers to society. Among the promised benefits is the ability to identify health issues earlier than is now the case and the improve the prospects of successful prevention and treatment. In addition, forensic applications of genetic technologies have proven a powerful tool of criminal investigation. The dangers of ... Read more

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  • Birth By Design

    Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe

    Edited by Raymond De Vries, Cecilia Benoit, Edwin van Teijlingen, Sirpa Wrede ...
    This collection of essays contains leading research in maternity care from Europe, the United States and Canada to discuss systems of care for pregnancy and childbirth. Birth By Design focuses on the practical side of 'good' social science research. This is a ground-breaking work that looks not only at maternity, but also the act of childbirth. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD