Health & Medicine

This book explores the complex connections between the memories, emotions, and objects that hold special meaning for us across the years.

This handbook presents practical guidance on how to apply project management and leadership tools, processes, and practices in academic settings.

Through rich and poignant stories and critical analysis of policy, this book sheds light on what it is like, and how it feels, to manage substance use while simultaneously on welfare.

This book aims to understand how gender and risk have been incorporated into women’s decision-making around the HPV vaccine.

Shedding light on structural and systemic factors that impact health and well-being, this collection provides how-to guidance for implementing trauma- and violence-informed care to improve experiences in health and social service settings.

Drawing on narrative accounts of illness, Missed and Dismissed Voices sheds light on the meaning and management of chronic health problems that are not visible to others.

What’s in Your Genome? describes the functional regions of the human genome, the evidence that 90% of it is junk DNA, and the reasons this evidence has not been widely accepted by the popular press and much of the scientific community.

Moral Figures examines entanglements of quantified population indicators, medical birthing practices, and Indigenous relationalities to understand gendered consequences of making reproduction public

Transforming Dentistry traces the rise and near demise of the dentistry program at Western University.

This is the story of a psychiatrist and his career-long relationship with a difficult patient, showing how medical treatment should not just be about biology, but also about psychology.

This book examines how embodied, heterosexual, married sexual experiences were constructed for, and by, Canadian women in the postwar era.

Weaving the personal story of an oncologist dealing with his father’s terminal cancer with stories inspired by encounters in his practice, Cancer Confidential uncovers the emotional responses of people living with cancer and those who care for them.

A practical guide to understanding and fostering kindness, this book aims to transform the thinking and practice of educators as they seek to cultivate kind classrooms.

Written by experts with lived experiences, this essential text provides a comprehensive understanding of LGBTQ2S health.

This collection of original essays introduces readers to the work of Henry Daniel, exploring his many contributions from medical, historical, and literary perspectives.

This book analyzes queer organizations in Canada and explores the ways health care, counselling, and social services address the intersecting oppressions facing Indigenous people, families, and communities.