Atlas of congenital cardiac disease

The American Heart Association published Maude Abbott's Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease in 1936. The Atlas was an important contribution to the understanding of cardiac defects and helped provide the stimulus for rapid advances in the diagnostic, physiologic, and surgical aspects of congenita...

Isotopes and innovation

Few people realize that Canada leads in the world in the production of radio isotopes, the raw material of nuclear medicine and high-tech scanners, and in their use in medicine and industry. In Isotopes and Innovation Paul Litt gives us an in-depth look at MDS Nordion, a company that started as t...

Current perspectives on nutrition and health

Recent research on health and nutrition confirms the important role of diet in maintaining health and reducing the risk of chronic disease and reinforces the link between diet and heart disease, cancer, and obesity. While death rates for cardiovascular diseases continue to decline, health risks i...

Recurrent dislocation of the shoulder

A different kind of care

More children in Western society suffer from the effects of poverty than from cancer, kidney disease, or any other major illness. In "A Different Kind of Care" Dr Gilles Julien proposes a framework within which we can understand and treat such children. Advocating a social pediatric approach, he ...

Whiplash and other useful illnesses

Whiplash, first described in a medical journal in 1953, now occurs so frequently that in the U.S. alone its annual cost is estimated at between $13 and $18 billion dollars. In Whiplash and the Exploitation of Victimhood Andrew Malleson contends that whiplash is nothing more than a strain of the n...

J.b. collip and the development of medical research in canada

The intriguing life of J.B. Collip, whose restless drive fuelled his pioneering studies in endocrinology and sustained a successful research enterprise through the first half of the twentieth century.

The struggle to serve

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the creation of Canada's modern hospital system. While it is often assumed that this process was inevitable, many small communities had difficulty creating and maintaining public hospitals. In an era of government cutbacks in health services and c...

An undisciplined economist

Incisive analysis of health policy issues in Canada by a pioneering health economist.

Shifting sands

During the 1970s and 1980s policymaking in the complex area of regulatory legislation of the health disciplines became both increasingly important and increasingly difficult for the Canadian provinces. In this comparative study Joan Boase traces the evolution of relationships among governments an...

Where to from here?

The importance of universal healthcare in Canada and possible areas for improvement.

Building resistance

How tuberculosis infection and disease impacted the bodies, families, and lives of children before antibiotics.

Understand and control your asthma

Understand and Control Your Asthma is designed to help asthmatics take control of their health through better understanding of the disease and its treatment and by applying self-management skills to avoid attacks.

Forensic colonialism

Though forensic genetic technologies are upheld as important tools of justice the development of these technologies has been accomplished through the ongoing genetic servitude of Indigenous Peoples. Forensic Colonialism explores how these controversial methods serve only privileged populations, a...

Nunavut

An essential guide to understanding the organization, management, funding, and delivery of health services to Canada's newest jurisdiction.

Conscripted to care

Drawing on interviews and focus groups with nearly 200 women from a range of backgrounds and occupations – including healthcare workers, educators, and parents – Conscripted to Care reveals how structural inequalities put women on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response, yet with inadequate resou...

Trials of labour

Trials of Labour is a detailed study of the available social science literature on childbirth and midwifery. Brian Burtch highlights the difficulties associated with the present lack of regulation of midwifery, pointing to ways of reducing the dangers through establishing guidelines for domicilia...

The ethical canary

The Ethical Canary is a major contribution to the debate about the hottest issues in ethics today, from one of the world's leading authorities.

Women, health, and nation

How have women in Canada and the US experienced and influenced health care since 1945? Did Canada's national health insurance system lead to fundamental differences in health care? Women, Health, and Nation examines North American women's engagement with their health systems and asks to what exte...

Transhumanizing war

Questioning whether the military is ready to push the boundaries of human performance.

The doctor dilemma

The Canadian health care system is undergoing fundamental restructuring that will necessitate important changes in doctors' professional roles. Rather than resisting such changes, as has happened on occasion in the past, S.E.D. Shortt, a practising physician for two decades, argues that doctors c...

Restoring the spirit

When injured soldiers returned from the First World War and needed to convalesce from severe injuries and trauma, a group of women were ready to help. Then known as "ward aides," these women - many of whom were artists or teachers - used simple craft activities to raise morale, build self-esteem,...

Encounters with wild children

Since the early seventeenth century, stories of encounters with strange children in unusual circumstances have been recorded, circulated, and reproduced in Europe and North America not simply as myths, legends, or good tabloid copy but as occurrences deserving serious scrutiny by philosophers and...

Drugging france

Nineteenth-century drug consumption permeated French society and encouraged the chemical enhancement of modern life. Drugging France highlights the medical histories of these drugs, chronicling how doctors transformed exotic botanicals and unpredictable chemicals into substances that reconfigured...

Without compassion, there is no healthcare

New technologies are transforming healthcare work, changing how patients interact with healthcare providers. This book is a call for healthcare providers, educators, and organisations to lead with compassion through times of rapid technological change.

Watermelon snow

Weaves memoir, microbiology, and artistic antics together with descriptions of a sublime Arctic landscape. Inspiring and deeply personal, this is the story of one scientist's rediscovery of what it means to live a good life at a time of increasing desperation about the future.

Look it up!

A behind-the-scenes guide that reveals how online information affects both patients and clinicians.

Managing a canadian healthcare strategy

Canada’s fragmented healthcare system is one of the most expensive among the OECD countries, yet the quality of its performance is mediocre at best. Canada lacks a system-wide healthcare strategy that brings together many individual federal, provincial, and territorial strategies into a comprehen...

Praktische kindergastroenterologie

Täglich stellen sich dem Kinderarzt und Allgemeinmediziner, dem jungen Assistenten, aber auch dem erfahrenen Arzt in der Pädiatrie Fragen aus der Kindergastroenterologie bzw. -hepatologie und Ernährung. Dieses Buch soll rasche Antworten und praktische Hilfen im Alltag geben. Diese komplett überar...

Who cares?

Why are there such massive disparities, globally, nationally and regionally, in the provision of healthcare services and access to them? Anthony Gatrell, one of the foremost geographers of health, seeks explanations for such diverse distribution, and in so doing offers students a critical analysi...

Emerging approaches to chronic disease management in primary health care

The management of chronic disease will be one of the most significant health challenges of the twenty-first century. Driven by demographics and aided, ironically, by our past successes in treating acute health problems, the number of people with chronic conditions is rising dramatically and will ...

Risk and responsibility

Controversies over how to manage health and environmental risks are among the most bitter disagreements in contemporary society. Trying to determine what is in the public interest is at the heart of these disagreements, but the core concerns of major sectors industry, governments, and voluntary a...

Sars in context

Less than a year after the SARS outbreak in Toronto and well before the official reports were written, physicians involved in the control of the SARS outbreak joined with several historians of disease and policy experts to reflect on the crisis. The essays in SARS in Context are based on the pape...

Health policy and federalism

An examination of whether federal institutions influence policy outcomes in the health sector.

Reconceiving midwifery

Midwifery in the developed world is in a state of ferment and change - a phenomenon referred to as the "new midwifery." Nowhere is this state of change more apparent than in Canada. Reconceiving Midwifery offers state-of-the-art analyses of the new midwifery as it is practiced in this country.The...

Health services restructuring in canada

The recent Chaoulli Supreme Court decision and health care proposals by Quebec and Alberta have led to renewed debate on how best to restructure the Canadian health care system. This volume offers a timely analysis of access and wait-times, alternative modes of health care delivery, and funding m...

Home medicine

John Crellin assesses popular home remedies from amulets to Zam-Buk ointment, revealing traditional - often ingenious - ways of coping with common health problems. Home Medicine is both a comprehensive reference to folk cures and self-treatment and a social history of pharmaceutical practices and...

Committed to the state asylum

Committed to the State Asylum examines the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario. Focusing on the creation and development of government-funded asylums for the insane - among the largest and most important nineteenth-century institutions in b...

Health care: innovation, impact, and challenge

Health Care addresses pressing economic challenges that Canada's health care system is facing and explores innovations and initiatives in program design and delivery that enhance the quality and affordability of health care.

Cette science nécessaire

Quels morts peut-on disséquer pour apprendre l’anatomie humaine et devenir un médecin compétent ? Cette science nécessaire fait la lumière sur une histoire originale et méconnue pour mieux comprendre l’essor de la profession médicale au Québec et l’histoire de la formation médicale globalement, a...

Beyond the line

Optimizing the well-being of Canada's military community through high-impact research.

Améliorer le leadership dans les services de santé au canada

How to train senior managers to make better use of evidence to transform health care.

Mcgill medicine, volume 2, 1885-1936

This second volume in the history of the McGill University Medical School begins a few years before the opening of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1894 and traces the major developments in the institution's second half century. At the beginning of this period the McGill Faculty of Medicine was alr...

A physician's guide to coping with death and dying

Education about death and dying has been almost ignored in medical schools. Recently, however, it has become increasingly obvious that the preferences of dying patients are being ignored, leaving many patients to die lonely, scared, and in pain. There is a growing realization that physicians can ...

Emotional and interpersonal dimensions of health services

While technological and biomedical breakthroughs have provided a remarkable array of tests, equipment, drugs, and procedures for diagnosing and treating acute diseases, modern medicine and professional health practices have not taken the same strides in the more human aspects of care. Emotional a...

From innovation to transformation

Steps towards revolutionizing health management in Ontario.

Mad cows and mother's milk, second edition

Communicating the nature and consequences of environmental and health risks is still one of the most problematic areas of public policy in Western democracies. Mad Cows and Mother's Milk outlines the crucial role of risk management in dealing with public controversies and analyses risk communicat...

Federalism, democracy and health policy in canada

An exploration of the ways in which federal and provincial governments relate to one another, and to the citizenry, in the making of health policy.

The healing machi

One of the few ethnographic accounts in English of current mapuche medical practices The use of a phenomenological approach allows for an emphasis on the transformative potentialities of medical techniques on individuals and communities Describes cases of healing rituals that fail ...

Liver regeneration

understanding the mechanisms involved in liver regeneration is of crucial importance for clinical medicine, not only regarding carcinogenesis and diabetes treatment, but also for the use of stem cells for cell therapy and liver surgery. This graduate-level text provides an overview of the cur...

Occupational therapy with older people into the 21st century

Using best evidence as well as professional and personal perspectives, Mountain explores the realities of later life, ageing in place, the implication of the technological age, meeting needs for rehabilitation, revisiting and valuing the core principles of occupational therapy, and more.

The nurses are innocent

In 1980-81, 43 babies died at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children from a supposed digoxin overdose. Gavin Hamilton's research shows that a toxin found in natural rubber might well have been the culprit in the babies' deaths. He clearly demonstrates that explanations other than serial murder acco...

Diabetic wounds and antibacterial resistance

This book provides a comprehensive overview of diabetic wounds, highlighting the dual challenge of impaired wound healing and antimicrobial resistance. It explores pathophysiology, microbial biofilms, treatment limitations, and emerging therapeutic strategies including nanotechnology, peptides, n...

Revolutionizing rare disease care

Rare diseases affect millions globally, yet patients often face delayed diagnoses, limited treatments, and insufficient support due to the conditions’ low prevalence and clinical complexity. This book, Revolutionizing Rare Disease Care: The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, ad...

Why black people die sooner

Joseph L. Graves Jr. demonstrates that the medical profession still fails to grasp basic facts about race, tracing how deep-rooted falsehoods have perpetuated the disparity between Black and white lifespans.

A catalogue of the manuscripts and archives of the library of the college of physicians of philadelphia

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...

Choosing unsafe sex

Choosing Unsafe Sex focuses on the ways in which condom refusal and beliefs regarding HIV testing reflect women's hopes for their relationships and their desires to preserve status and self-esteem. Many of the inner-city women who participated in Dr. Sobo's research were seriously involved with o...

Bad advice

Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don’ts of battling misinformation. From conspiracy theories linking vaccines to autism to Holocaust and climate-change denial. Bad Advice is a humorous guide to taking on quack experts and self-appointed activists and a must-read for any Amer...

Aspects of multilingual aphasia

This volume presents a broad overview of current research and thought on aphasia in individuals who speak more than one language. The range of topics covered, and their in-depth treatment, should be of interest to researchers, clinicians, and students.

Tackling mental illness together

Revolutionise the way you deal with the mentally ill in your congregation and community - you don't need to be an expert to make a difference

Before the next crisis

Before the Next Crisis shares the pandemic stories of everyday Americans from all walks of life—red and blue states, urban and rural areas.

G3p - good privacy protection practice in clinical research

Establishing ethical and privacy protection aspects in scientific research, especially in medical research, has a long history. Medical data are usually more sensible than other personal data and require therefore an even higher degree of protection than other personal data. In recent resear...

The graft

The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation.

Eighteenth-century dermatological handbook

The book contains the English translation of a pivotal 18th-century Latin treatise on skin diseases by the Austrian surgeon Joseph Jacob Plenck (1738–1807) titled Doctrina de Morbis Cutaneis (Instruction on Cutaneous Diseases). The work is significant because in it Plenck demonstrated the value o...

Healthcare in northern ireland, 1921–73

This book provides insights into the politics, policies and management of healthcare in Northern Ireland from Irish partition in 1921 to the reorganisation of the services in 1973. It covers the interwar era, reforms of the 1940s, and creation and operation of the National Health Service, especia...

Pictures of health

From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In Pictures of Health, Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg have assembled a series of photographs illuminating that history.