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  • Bent out of Shape

    Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work

    by Karen Messing ...
    Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s way, choked into silence, whose physical and mental health invariably comes in second place: underestimated, underrepresented, understudied, underpaid.Should workplaces treat all ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Pain and Prejudice

    What Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do It

    by Karen Messing ...
    In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Sick of the System

    Why the COVID-19 Recovery Must Be Revolutionary

    Families left grieving; small businesses shuttered; communities in lockdown; precarious workers set adrift; health care workers stressed beyond endurance. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world to its core. But the cracks already ran deep.Featuring essays on poverty, health care, incarceration, basic income, policing, Indigenous communities, and more, this anthology delivers a stinging rebuke ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Realities of Canadian Nursing

    Professional, Practice, and Power Issues

    In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie ... Read more

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  • Weathering

    The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society

    **Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people."Monumental." —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning**America has woken up to what many of its citizens have known for centuries and to what public health statistics have evidenced ... Read more

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  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edited by João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ... Read more

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  • Wasting Away

    The Undermining of Canadian Health

    Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients). The concluding chapter sums up the winners ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Code of Ethics for the Protection of Children from Abuse

    The Code of Ethics for the protection of Children from Abuse identifies some of the key universal standards and ethical practices that can help in protecting children from abuse. It pertains to the following sectors: Parliament, the Police, the Judiciary, the Ministry or Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the media, NGOs, religious leaders, and ISPs. ... Read more

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  • The Republic of Therapy

    Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS

    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and ... Read more

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  • Metrics

    What Counts in Global Health

    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support, the contributors question the ability of metrics to solve global health problems. They capture a ... Read more

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  • Emergence of infectious diseases

    Risks and issues for societies

    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains the constant emergence of infectious diseases? What are the related challenges?In five chapters, experts from different scientific fields analyse the ecological, social, institutional and ... Read more

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