For many Canadians, the state of our health care and medical system is at the top of the public agenda. By following the growth and development of modern medicine in one Canadian province, Manitoba Medicine provides an insight into...
Medical Care
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Auteur:Boston, SarahSommaire:Lucky Dog is a hilarious and heartwarming memoir by a renowned veterinary oncologist who tells us what we can learn about health care and ourselves from our most beloved pets.What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s...
- Auteur:Moisan, MartinSommaire:
Ce livre est le fruit d’un cheminement personnel et professionnel. Après avoir pratiqué la médecine générale pendant plus de 15 ans, et ce en milieu hospitalier et en cabinet privé, Dr Martin Moisan nous fait part de ses observations....
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Auteur:Fitzpatrick, MeghanSommaire:Invisible Scars provides the first extended exploration of Commonwealth Division psychiatry during the Korean War and the psychiatric-care systems in place for the thousands of soldiers who fought in that conflict. Fitzpatrick...
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Auteur:Singer, MerrillSommaire:This new text provides students with a first exposure to the growing field of medical anthropology. As such, it is guided by three unifying themes. First, medical anthropology is actively engaged in helping to address pressing health...
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Auteur:Frankel, MilesSommaire:In 1969, Miles Frankel, a young British doctor, was recruited by the International Grenfell Association to provide medical services to communities in northern Newfoundland and coastal Labrador. From St. Anthony he travelled—by boat,...
- Auteur:Pinney, StephenSommaire:
According to the author, the principles needed to run an effective healthcare system are similar to those required to run a successful professional hockey team: know your goals, work as a team, hold individuals accountable, and measure...
- Auteur:Levine, DavidSommaire:
Drawing on forty years running many Canadian health care institutions, David Levine shares his experience on how to manage in this very complex environment. His career includes implementing one of the first Local Community Health...
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Auteur:Crellin, John K.Sommaire:Ever since their early twentieth-century “Golden Age,” postcards on both sides of the Atlantic have recorded popular culture. Through humour, views of urban and rural places, photographs of individuals, fantasy, advertising, and...
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Auteur:Wermuth, Laurie Ann.Sommaire:This book uses a critical theoretical perspective to explore the links between social variables like race, class, and gender, and the health of populations around the world.Global Inequality and Human Needs includes case studies from...
- Auteur:Steel, DanielleSommaire:
World War II brings together six remarkable young flight nurses, who face the challenges of war and its many heartbreaks and victories as unsung heroes, in this inspiring novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel....
- Auteur:Farmer, PaulSommaire:
In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of...
- Auteur:Townsend, ElizabethSommaire:
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Auteur:Kulig, JudithSommaire:What happens when health care providers meet patients whose religious views contrast with mainstream health practices? This book focuses on a unique religious group, the Low German Mennonites, to examine ways in which beliefs and...
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Auteur:Delany, VickiSommaire:Former novelist Elaine Benson is helping an elderly spinster write a memoir of her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of WWII when she discovers that the writer hired before her died under suspicious circumstances.
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Auteur:Delany, VickiSommaire:Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who jettisoned her career over an unreliable screenwriter, is now divorced, broke, and come to a “primitive, untamed northern forest” on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira...
- Auteur:Makary, MartySommaire:
From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay - an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health. More...
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Auteur:Martin, DanielleSommaire:An important check-up on our health-care system--and what urgently needs fixing--from a respected doctor and passionate Medicare advocate. Dr. Danielle Martin sees the cracks and challenges in our health-care system every day. Much like...
- Auteur:Stewart, Roderick, Majada, JesúsSommaire:
Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing. Although he had achieved international prominence as a surgeon, he was unhappy in his personal life and deeply frustrated by a failed attempt to introduce...
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Auteur:Lendrum, BonnieSommaire:Families who would want to honour a parent’s request to not die in hospital, encounter obstacles that can defeat even accomplished health professionals. Autumns’ Grace is a story that spans a ten-month period as the Campbell...
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