Wait Time

By Kenneth Sherman
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents ...

No Accident

By Neil Arason
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Technology & Engineering, Travel

It is possible to eliminate death and serious injury from Canada’s roads. In other jurisdictions, the European Union, centres in the United States, and at least one automotive company aim to achieve ...

The One Best Way?

By Aleck Ostry & Tasnim Nathoo
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History, Child Studies, Medical, Public Health, History Of Medicine
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work−family balance, public decency, the safety of our food ...

Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India

Edited by Gérard Vallée
Subjects: Political Science, Social Policy, Medical, Public Health
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Social Change in India shows the shift of focus that occurred during Florence Nightingale’s more than forty years of work on public health in India. While the focus in the preceding volume, Health ...

Florence Nightingale on Health in India

Edited by Gérard Vallée
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, History
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Volume 9: Florence Nightingale on Health in India is the first of two volumes reporting Nightingale’s forty years of work to improve public health in India. It begins with her work to establish the ...

Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Volume 8: Florence Nightingale on Women, Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution makes available a great range of Florence Nightingale’s work on women: her pioneering study of maternal mortality in childbirth ...

Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care

Edited by Lynn McDonald
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

This sixth volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports Nightingale’s considerable accomplishments in the development of a public health care system based on health promotion and disease ...