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End of Life: A Guide for Humanists and Non-Religious People in BC

by Sophie Burk, Ian Bushfield ...

Humanism is a philosophy of life that asserts you can be an ethical person without belief in a god. Humanist thinkers have been around for centuries, promoting human rights, scientific thinking, and reason. If you haven't heard the term before and you are thinking, "I support all those things!" then you might be a humanist.Most British Columbians are non-religious and many are probably "secular ... Read more

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Humanism is a philosophy of life that asserts you can be an ethical person without belief in a god. Humanist thinkers have been around for centuries, promoting human rights, scientific thinking, and reason. If you haven't heard the term before and you are thinking, "I support all those things!" then you might be a humanist.Most British Columbians are non-religious and many are probably "secular
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Rage Becomes Her

The Power of Women's Anger

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***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o... ... Read more

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***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o...
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The Battle for Your Brain

Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

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A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into ... Read more

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A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next?Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to learn your political beliefs, your thoughts can be used as evidence of a crime, and your own feelings can be held against you. A world where people who suffer from epilepsy receive alerts moments before a seizure, and the average person can peer into
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Talking About Death Won’t Kill You

The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations

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This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dyingDeath is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a medical event, and we have lost the ability to make this last part of life more personal and meaningful. ... Read more

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This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dyingDeath is a part of life. We used to understand this, and in the past, loved ones generally died at home with family around them. But in just a few generations, death has become a medical event, and we have lost the ability to make this last part of life more personal and meaningful.
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Viral Justice

How We Grow the World We Want

by Ruha Benjamin ...

**From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow**Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 ... Read more

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**From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a time“A true gift to our movements for justice.”—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow**Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19
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United States of Fear

How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis

by Mark McDonald M.D. ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, LA-based psychiatrist Mark McDonald grew increasingly concerned by the negative mental health effects he witnessed among his patients—and Americans nationwide. These negative effects—stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, domestic violence, suicidal ideation—were all directly traceable to the climate of fear being stoked by public health authorities and ... Read more

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As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, LA-based psychiatrist Mark McDonald grew increasingly concerned by the negative mental health effects he witnessed among his patients—and Americans nationwide. These negative effects—stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, domestic violence, suicidal ideation—were all directly traceable to the climate of fear being stoked by public health authorities and
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Patriarchy Inc.

What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality?and Why Men Still Win at Work

by Cordelia Fine ...

A razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in work.Work remains much as it always has: men occupy the vast majority of leadership roles and are overrepresented in positions from engineer to plumber. We see many jobs as “male” or “female,” with women dominating in healthcare and childcare professions. Pretending that this is the ... Read more

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A razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing the gender inequality embedded in work.Work remains much as it always has: men occupy the vast majority of leadership roles and are overrepresented in positions from engineer to plumber. We see many jobs as “male” or “female,” with women dominating in healthcare and childcare professions. Pretending that this is the
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SAFEGUARDING YOUR AGED RELATIVES SO THAT THEY CAN LIVE HAPPILY AFTER RETIREMENT FOR 30 YEARS OR MORE

by Isaac Ato Mensah, Florence Afful, Edem Yao Ahiati, Barbara Vanessa Sabbi ...

Safeguarding the aged is such an important concept - a gray matter. An entire life's career spent working in a nursing care home, or residential care home, may not be enough to guarantee an error-free, litigation-free caregiving. Besides, we all desire to grow old. Hence, we may at some period in our lives need help with assisted living. Therefore, this book is for you who need to refresh your ... Read more

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Safeguarding the aged is such an important concept - a gray matter. An entire life's career spent working in a nursing care home, or residential care home, may not be enough to guarantee an error-free, litigation-free caregiving. Besides, we all desire to grow old. Hence, we may at some period in our lives need help with assisted living. Therefore, this book is for you who need to refresh your
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Health Ethics Guide

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The goal of the Health Ethics Guide is threefold: 1. to remind readers of the fundamental commitment within the Catholic tradition to the ministry of caring for those who are sick and suffering; 2. to articulate the values and principles found within that tradition by providing guidelines for ethical decision making; and 3. to promote a pastoral understanding of how these principles and values can ... Read more

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The goal of the Health Ethics Guide is threefold: 1. to remind readers of the fundamental commitment within the Catholic tradition to the ministry of caring for those who are sick and suffering; 2. to articulate the values and principles found within that tradition by providing guidelines for ethical decision making; and 3. to promote a pastoral understanding of how these principles and values can
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Negotiating the Pandemic

Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19

Edited by Inayat Ali, Robbie Davis-Floyd ...

Series Book 19 - Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences ... Read more

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This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences
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Systemic

How Racism Is Making Us Sick

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In the spirit of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body; A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool.Layal Liverpool spent years as a teen bouncing from doctor to doctor, each one failing to diagnose her dermatological complaint. Just when she’d grown used to the idea that ... Read more

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In the spirit of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body; A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool.Layal Liverpool spent years as a teen bouncing from doctor to doctor, each one failing to diagnose her dermatological complaint. Just when she’d grown used to the idea that
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Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

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NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per ... Read more

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NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per
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