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  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • 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 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Wash, Wear, and Care

    Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care

    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 ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Critical To Care

    The Invisible Women in Health Services

    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 ... Leer más

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  • From Crisis to Catastrophe

    Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

    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 ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Working in the Context of Austerity

    Challenges and Struggles

    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 ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Vulnerable

    The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Haunted Nights

    A Horror Writers Association Anthology

    Completo

    11 hora 38 minutos

    Here are sixteen chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Putting Back the Pieces: My Journey Through Traumatic Brain Injury

    "Putting Back the Pieces" by this New Zealand author is two books in one. Book One, "Who Am I?" was started in 2007 and published in hardcover in 2009. It covers the first two and a half years after a motor vehicle accident which left the author with multiple broken bones and the complications of a severe traumatic brain injury.It is the story of a life dramatically changed in many, many ways. It ... Leer más

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  • Expiration Date

    Experiencing the awe of the miracle that we are.

    Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Creative Teamwork

    Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Health Matters

    Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada

    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 ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD