Gary Kinney: 10 books

I am a retrospective traveler, to be sure. I’m all anticipation before the event, sentimental after it all, but decidedly unimpressed when I actually have to participate. Maybe I’m getting old, but my senses seem to have become terribly brittle. Heat seems hotter, smell seems more pungent, and...

Few conditions cause as much agony and frustration in women as endometriosis. The treatments can be as debilitating as the disease, so when a new medication is released, it is widely regarded as a breakthrough. Unfortunately it, too, can have some unexpected side effects and those involved in pointing...

This is a story of people who exist simultaneously in two different and unusual worlds. It addresses both mental illness, and the realities of health care in the current climate of cutbacks and hospital closures.It is a humorous foray into the mind of a young man in a mental institution who, although...

Sound Bites is a story about a precocious boy, Joseph, who grows up with a fascination for words. They pop up unannounced and unrequested in his head.He enrols in the faculty of Engineering but discovers the only thing he likes about it is Asa, a girl he meets in class one day. He decides to drop...

IBR is a novel dealing with an unusual idea for preventing human genital herpes infections. I have taken the concept of 'viral interference' -that is, the interference by one type of virus with the growth and replication of another similar type- and borrowed an animal virus from my veterinary...

This is the story of two close friends, Teddy and Jamie, growing up in Winnipeg. Neither are popular, Teddy because he is quiet and unassuming, Jamie because he is not, but each is content with his role. Jamie has always been the precocious, brilliant outsider in the class, and Teddy his unpretentious...

Dermoid cysts of the ovaries are interesting because they contain several mature types of tissues, often including hair, teeth, sebum, cartilage -even thyroid tissue and occasionally neural elements.What causes dermoids? There are several hypotheses, but Julie, a young woman doing a first year...

The first story is about Jason's early life in Winnipeg in the 50ies. He is being moved out of his brother's room into an unfinished room in the attic. He is of mixed feelings about this because up there his imagination runs riot. He thinks of the rafters as the ribs of a sleeping animal...

Linda is advised to have a mammogram but even though she is the wife of a gynaecologist she mistrusts the advice. While exploring the limited choices available to her, she discovers a mysterious group with a charismatic leader who suggests an alternative solution.This is an exploration, factual in content but fictional by intent, of the problems that envelop mammography.

Andro is a boy obsessed with trees, just like his father. When his father leaves, however, his mother decides to move from their house on the edge of a forest to Calgary. Andro is unhappy there and can't make anyone understand why. When he tries to run away, his mother takes it as an opportunity to...