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  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Series Book 10 - 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

  • Wash, Wear, and Care

    Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care

    by Pat Armstrong, Suzanne Day ...
    Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • From Crisis to Catastrophe

    Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

    by Joan C. Tronto, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Veena Siddharth, Ito Peng, Odichinma Akosionu, Janette S. Dill, J'Mag Karbeah, Laura Mauldin, Pat Armstrong, Janna Klostermann, María Nieves Rico, Laura Pautassi, Valeria Esquivel, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Johanna S. Quinn, Zitha Mokomane, Ameeta Jaga, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Franziska Dorn, Nancy Folbre, Leila Gautham, Martha MacDonald, Sabrina Marchetti, Merita Mesiäislehto, Orly Benjamin, Thurid Eggers, Christopher Grages, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Cynthia J. Cranford, Cindy L. Cain, Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Katherine Ravenswood, Julie Kashen ...
    Series series Carework in a Changing World
    The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Vulnerable

    The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

    by Jane Philpott, Katherine Fierlbeck, Lorian Hardcastle, Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, Jeffery Hewitt0, Michelle Giroux1, David Robitaille2, Amir Attaran3, Adam R. Houston4, Bryan Thomas5, Carissima Mathen6, Alexandra Flynn7, Mel Cappe8, Grégoire Webber9, Tim Caulfield0, Jeffrey Simpson1, Paul Daly2, Marie-France Fortin3, Jennifer A. Quaid4, Teresa Scassa, Full Professor; Canada Research Chair5, Kelly Bronson6, Jason Millar7, Vardit Ravitsky8, Daniel Weinstock9, Terry Skolnik0, Professor Martha Jackman1, Delphine Nakache2, Yves Le Bouthillier3, Martine Lagacé4, Linda Garcia5, Leilani Farha6, Kaitlin Schwan7, Adelina Iftene8, Jamie Chai Yun Liew9, Y. Y. Brandon Chen0, Anne Levesque1, Kwame McKenzie2, Jennifer A. Chandler3, Mona Gupta4, Yasmin Khaliq5, Simon Hatcher6, Olivia Lee7, Tess Sheldon8, Ravi Malhotra9, Pat Armstrong0, Hugh Armstrong1, Ivy Bourgeault2, Katherine Lippel3, Louise Bélanger-Hardy4, Professor Vanessa Gruben, Associate Professor; Vice-Dean (Academic)5, Sarah Berger Richardson6, Anis Chowdhury7, Jomo Kwame Sundaram8, Professor Sam Halabi, Professor; Director Centre for Transformational Health Law9, Kumanan Wilson0, Chidi Oguamanam1, Steven J. Hoffman2, Patrick Fafard3, Céline Castets-Renard4, Eleonore Fournier-Tombs5, E. Richard Gold6, Jeremy de Beer7, Matthew Herder8, Jason W. Nickerson9 ...
    The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica.Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Working in the Context of Austerity

    Challenges and Struggles

    by Jill Rubery, Steve Davies, Helen Blakely, Patrick Gunnigle, Tom Turner, Mike O'Brien, Caroline Murphy, Jonathan Lavelle, Michelle O’Sullivan, Lorraine Ryan, Juliette Macmahon, Alina Baluch, Pauric O’Rourke, Jennifer Zelnick, Mimi Abramovitz, Doug Young, Dora Scholarios, Eva Jendro, Feng Xu, Kendra Strauss, Geraldina Polanco, Pat Armstrong, Philip James, Niels Van Doorn, Wayne Lewchuk ...
    Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Critical To Care

    The Invisible Women in Health Services

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Krista Scott-Dixon ...
    Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care. It is a central issue for policy development because the definition often results in a division among workers in ways that undermine care.Critical to Care uses a wide range of evidence ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Health Matters

    Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada

    Edited by Eric Mykhalovskiy, Jacqueline Choiniere, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Privatization of Care

    The Case of Nursing Homes

    Edited by Hugh Armstrong, Pat Armstrong ...
    Series series Aging and Society
    Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising practices that treat residents, families and staff with dignity and respect in ways that can also ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Shaping Academia for the Public Good

    Critical Reflections on the CHSRF/CIHR Chair Program

    Edited by Louise Potvin, Pat Armstrong ...
    With increasing demands for evidence-based decision-making, the academic community must be ready to train researchers who can reduce the gap between health care research and practice. One program dedicated to promoting such training is the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF, now the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement) and Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Creative Teamwork

    Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography

    Edited by Pat Armstrong, Ruth Lowndes ...
    Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations. It is about the imagination, stimulation, and reflection that can come with international, interdisciplinary teams sharing the development, application, analysis, and dissemination of research. Although the book is based on a large, seven-year project studying ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Wasting Away

    The Undermining of Canadian Health

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    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

  • Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes

    Flexible Boundaries

    by Hugh Armstrong, Susan Braedley, Jacqueline Choiniere, Janna Klostermann, Ruth Lowndes, Christine Streeter, James Struthers, Marta Szebehely, Petra Ulmanen, Gudmund Ågotnes, Frode F. Jacobsen, Oddrunn Sortland ...
    Series series Transforming Care
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while also increasing the need for it.Drawing on a range of research projects covering Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, this book documents a broad spectrum of unpaid work performed by residents, relatives, volunteers and staff in nursing ... Read more

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