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  • The Hand of God

    A Journey from Death to Life by The Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind

    by Bernard Nathanson ...
    He presided over 61,000 abortions-one of which was suffered by his then-girlfriend-and directed the largest abortion clinic in the world. He had helped to legalize abortion in the first place.One day, he had a change of heart. One day, he found God.At the drop of a hat, an abortion doctor renounced his profession-and his atheism-for pro-life advocacy and Christianity.In the most shocking ... Read more

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    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers.On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found ... Read more

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  • Blood

    The Stuff of Life

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but ... Read more

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  • Get Well Soon

    History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

    by Jennifer Wright ...
    A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues—from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio—and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Medical Apartheid

    The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Harriet A. Washington ...
    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book."[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, ... Read more

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  • A Good Death

    Making the Most of Our Final Choices

    by Sandra Martin ...
    Having a good death is our final human right, argues Sandra Martin in this updated and expanded version of her bestselling and award-winning social history of the right to die movement in Canada and around the world.Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, finalist for both the Donner Prize in Public Policy and the Dafoe Prize for History, A Good Death has a new chapter on Canada ... Read more

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  • Birth

    The Surprising History of How We Are Born

    by Tina Cassidy ...
    A journalist " explores the way childbirth has changed, from pre-history to the present" in this "fascinating, funny and occasionally shocking" historical survey ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).From midwives to the epidural and beyond, mother and former Boston Globe editor Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how we handle the process ... Read more

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  • Witches, Midwives, & Nurses (Second Edition)

    A History of Women Healers

    by Barbara Ehrenreich, Deirdre English ...
    Series series Contemporary Classics
    Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry.As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work.First published by the Feminist Press in ... Read more

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  • Godless Morality

    Keeping Religion Out of Ethics

    by Richard Holloway ...
    Series series Canons
    The use of God in any moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. We can argue whether this or that alleged claim emanated from God, but surely it is better to leave God out of the argument altogether and find strong human reasons for supporting the systems that we advocate. Godless Morality is a refreshing, courageous and human-centred justification for contemporary morality. ... Read more

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  • Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

    by Susan Sontag ...
    Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of patients ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Brave New World Revisited

    by Aldous Huxley ...
    Brave New World Revisited, written by Huxley almost thirty years after Brave New World, is a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. He believed when he wrote the original novel that it was a reasonable guess as to where the world might go in the future. In Brave New World Revisited, he concluded that the ... Read more

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  • Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

    by Adrienne Rich ...
    Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood.The experience is her own—as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother—but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance. ... Read more

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