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  • Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes

    Flexible Boundaries

    by Hugh Armstrong, Susan Braedley, Jacqueline Choiniere, Janna Klostermann, Ruth Lowndes, Christine Streeter, James Struthers, Marta Szebehely, Petra Ulmanen, Gudmund Ågotnes, Frode F. Jacobsen, Oddrunn Sortland ...
    Series series Transforming Care
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while also increasing the need for it.Drawing on a range of research projects covering Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, this book documents a broad spectrum of unpaid work performed by residents, relatives, volunteers and staff in nursing ... Read more

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  • Wasting Away

    The Undermining of Canadian Health

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • About Canada: Health Care, 2nd ed.

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Health Matters

    Evidence, Critical Social Science, and Health Care in Canada

    Edited by Eric Mykhalovskiy, Jacqueline Choiniere, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    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 ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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    Diabetes Diet Solution - prevent and reverse diabetes: Discover How to Control Your Blood Sugar and Live Healthy even if you are diagnosed with Type 1 or 2 Diabetes

    by Cheryl Field ...
    Narrated by Hugh Nicholson, Byron Armstrong ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 1 min

    Learn how to take your life back from Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, even if your symptoms are overwhelming and nothing else has helped you before.Each year, approximately 1.5 million Americans discover they are diabetic. What most don’t realize, however, is that their journey doesn’t have to end there. In recent clinical trials, 46% of participants who followed strict lifestyle instructions were able ... Read more

    $16.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Privatization of Care

    The Case of Nursing Homes

    Edited by Hugh Armstrong, Pat Armstrong ...
    Series series Aging and Society
    Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising practices that treat residents, families and staff with dignity and respect in ways that can also ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Vulnerable

    The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

    by Jane Philpott, Katherine Fierlbeck, Lorian Hardcastle, Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, Jeffery Hewitt0, Michelle Giroux1, David Robitaille2, Amir Attaran3, Adam R. Houston4, Bryan Thomas5, Carissima Mathen6, Alexandra Flynn7, Mel Cappe8, Grégoire Webber9, Tim Caulfield0, Jeffrey Simpson1, Paul Daly2, Marie-France Fortin3, Jennifer A. Quaid4, Teresa Scassa, Full Professor; Canada Research Chair5, Kelly Bronson6, Jason Millar7, Vardit Ravitsky8, Daniel Weinstock9, Terry Skolnik0, Professor Martha Jackman1, Delphine Nakache2, Yves Le Bouthillier3, Martine Lagacé4, Linda Garcia5, Leilani Farha6, Kaitlin Schwan7, Adelina Iftene8, Jamie Chai Yun Liew9, Y. Y. Brandon Chen0, Anne Levesque1, Kwame McKenzie2, Jennifer A. Chandler3, Mona Gupta4, Yasmin Khaliq5, Simon Hatcher6, Olivia Lee7, Tess Sheldon8, Ravi Malhotra9, Pat Armstrong0, Hugh Armstrong1, Ivy Bourgeault2, Katherine Lippel3, Louise Bélanger-Hardy4, Professor Vanessa Gruben, Associate Professor; Vice-Dean (Academic)5, Sarah Berger Richardson6, Anis Chowdhury7, Jomo Kwame Sundaram8, Professor Sam Halabi, Professor; Director Centre for Transformational Health Law9, Kumanan Wilson0, Chidi Oguamanam1, Steven J. Hoffman2, Patrick Fafard3, Céline Castets-Renard4, Eleonore Fournier-Tombs5, E. Richard Gold6, Jeremy de Beer7, Matthew Herder8, Jason W. Nickerson9 ...
    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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Critical To Care

    The Invisible Women in Health Services

    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Krista Scott-Dixon ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

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    If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich?

    A BBC Radio 4 comedy

    by Paul Shearer, Richard Turner ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Richard E. Grant, Peter Capaldi, Tony Slattery, Amanda Root, Douglas Hodge, Hugh Bonneville, Alex Lowe, Alexander Armstrong ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    Richard E Grant, Peter Capaldi and Amanda Root are among the stars of this BBC radio sitcom about three promising graduates still underachieving in their 30sFlatmates Judith, Giles and David once had it all: youth, optimism, ambition, and degrees from one of the country's best universities. In their 20s, they were full of potential, but ten years later, they're simply might-have-beens. Stuck in ... Read more

    $23.98 CAD

  • The Art of Experiment

    Post-pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st Century Architecture and Design

    by Rolf Hughes, Rachel Armstrong ...
    A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew.In search of new knowledge practices that can help us make the world livable again, this book takes the reader on a journey across time—from the deep past to the unfolding future. The authors search beyond human knowledge to establish negotiated partnerships with forms of ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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  • University Governance in Canada

    Navigating Complexity

    by Julia Eastman, Claude Trottier, Olivier Bégin-Caouette, Glen Jones ...
    Universities play essential roles in Canadian society. The internal and external governance of these complex institutions faces ever-evolving challenges within a rapidly shifting international context.Written by a national team of scholars, University Governance in Canada asks how institutional decisions are made and who is behind these choices. By exploring the historical evolution and regional ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 12 - Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD