Health & Medicine / Health

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.

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

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.

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

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 collection considers how health, and "women’s health" are shaped through intersecting systems of power based on colonialism, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and ableism.

Alberta: A Health System Profile provides the first comprehensive and detailed overview of the economic, political, population health, program and service delivery aspects of health care in Alberta and the resulting health outcomes.

Examining high profile case studies of medically caused suffering and death, When Medicine Goes Awry critiques the present functioning of the medical care system and the pharmaceutical industry.

The fourth edition of Dying and Death in Canada explores how the intensely personal experience of dying and death is shaped by society and culture, with new discussions of MAID and COVID-19.

Drawing on extensive original qualitative research, Global Health and The Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women’s access to safe maternity care into focus.

Addressing the diversity of communities and experiences across Northern Canada, Health and Healthcare in Northern Canada pays attention to what is needed to support and achieve health equity for northern communities and peoples.

Combining a historical account with a current analysis, Newfoundland and Labrador: A Health System Profile is the first comprehensive study of the province’s health institutions, policies, and outcomes.

The book provides a thorough review of the U.S. health care system, including its organization and financing, care delivery, recent reforms, and an evaluation of the system’s performance.

Bridging information gaps on health inequities faced by vulnerable children, adolescents, and families in Canada, this book informs readers of the key tools to promote productive, fulfilling lives of people managing prevalent health challenges.

This unique comparative ethnography uses a systematic and nuanced approach to delve into the myriad meanings of "being fat" within and across different global sites.