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Disability Politics and Care

The Challenge of Direct Funding

UBC Press

Disability Politics and Care documents what happens when people with disabilities take control of home care services and explores key debates around the notion of “care.”

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A Town Called Asbestos

Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community

UBC Press

In A Town Called Asbestos, a mining town’s proud and painful history is unearthed to reveal the challenges a small resource community faced in a globalized world.

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Cleaner, Greener, Healthier

A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies

UBC Press

David R. Boyd reveals striking weaknesses in Canadian environmental law, describes the damage these flaws are wreaking on human health, and identifies practical, proven, and affordable solutions to these problems.

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Our Chemical Selves

Gender, Toxics, and Environmental Health

UBC Press

This collection provides a critical, interdisciplinary analysis of how everyday exposures to common chemicals are adversely affecting the health of Canadians and reveals the connections between social inequity, environmental risks, and the gendered division of health burdens in Canada.

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Moving Aboriginal Health Forward

Discarding Canada’s Legal Barriers

UBC Press, Purich Publishing

This comprehensive analysis of Aboriginal health statistics, historical practices, and legal principles in Canadian law provides a practical framework for the reconciliation of Aboriginal health and healing practices within Canadian society.

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The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

UBC Press

A history of the convergence of Western and Chinese medical practices in modern China.

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Acquired Tastes

Why Families Eat the Way They Do

UBC Press

Interviews with Canadian families reveal that our daily food choices reflect individual tastes and preferences but also our economic, social, and geographical place in the world.

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The Man Who Invented Gender

Engaging the Ideas of John Money

UBC Press

This book offers, for the first time, a balanced and probing textual analysis of John Money’s writing, to assess the profound impact of this pioneering sexologist’s work on the debates and research on sexuality and gender that dominated the last half of the twentieth century.

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Community Mental Health in Canada, Revised and Expanded Edition

Theory, Policy, and Practice

UBC Press

This revised and expanded edition of Community Mental Health in Canada offers a timely, critical overview of the provision of public mental health services in Canada, past, present, and future.

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Nutrition and Health Teacher Resource

UBC Press, Pacific Educational Press

This resource provides teachers with everything they need to plan, teach and assess in on comprehensive resource, supporting the use of the Nutrition and Health Student Resource.

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The Industrial Diet

The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating

UBC Press

A searing look at the socioeconomic, technological, and political forces that have transformed our food into edible commodities.

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Living Indigenous Leadership

Native Narratives on Building Strong Communities

UBC Press

Native women share their knowledge and insights about leadership at the community level.

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“Don’t Be So Gay!”

Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe

UBC Press

Queer students speak out in a book that seeks to address the problem of homophobic bullying in schools.

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Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada

Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues

UBC Press

Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples’ involvement in sport.

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Father Involvement in Canada

Diversity, Renewal, and Transformation

Edited by Jessica Ball and Kerry Daly
UBC Press

Exploring the diverse roles fathers play in their children’s lives, Father Involvement in Canada provides a timely synopsis of current knowledge while challenging many long-held assumptions about fatherhood.

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