Histoires en cours de route / Stories Along the Way

By Ruth DyckFehderau
With James Bay Cree Storytellers
Translated by Luci Bobbish-Salt, Louise Blacksmith, and Valérie Duro
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Medical, Public Health

A collection of very short – often funny, often moving – stories and vignettes gathered during the writing of The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee that were not included in the main volume appear here in ...

Dibaajimowinensan; Stories Along the Way

By Ruth DyckFehderau
With James Bay Cree Storytellers
Translated by Patricia M. Ningewance
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Medical, Public Health

A collection of very short – often funny, often moving – stories and vignettes gathered during the writing of The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee that were not included in the main volume appear here in ...

Wait Time

By Kenneth Sherman
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing, Medical, Public Health
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 comparable r ...

The One Best Way?

By Tasnim Nathoo & Aleck Ostry
Subjects: Medical, History Of Medicine, Social Science, Child Studies, Public Health, Women’s Studies, History, Canadian History
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 s ...

Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India

Edited by Gérard Vallée
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Political Science, Social Policy
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 in ...

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 Royal C ...

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 p ...