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by James Farney
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
The strength of the Tea Party and Religious Right in the United States, alongside the Harper Conservatives’ stance on same-sex marriage and religious freedom in Canada, has many asking whether social conservatism has come to define the right wing of North American politics.
In this timely...
Dreams and Due Diligence
Till & McCulloch's Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In proving the existence of stem cells, Ernest Armstrong McCulloch and James Edgar Till formed the most important partnership in Canadian medical research since Frederick Banting and Charles Best, the discoverers of insulin. Together, Till and McCulloch instructed, influenced, and inspired successive...
Our Own Master Race
Eugenics in Canada, 1885-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many...
Health Care in Canada
A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.
Many...
The Myth of the Born Criminal
Psychopathy, Neurobiology, and the Creation of the Modern Degenerate
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are psychopaths, as, surprisngly, are large numbers of corporate...
Who is an Indian?
Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing Indigenous peoples across the Americas, and one with significant implications for decisions relating to resource distribution, conflicts over who gets to live where and for how long, and clashing principles of governance and law. For centuries,...
Judging Bertha Wilson
Law as Large as Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Madame Justice Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, is an enormously influential and controversial figure in Canadian legal and political history. This engaging, authorized, intellectual biography draws on interviews conducted under the auspices of the Osgoode Society...
Histories of Suicide
International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especially among young men and Aboriginal peoples living in the Western world. While this has naturally led to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russia's troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not only as a medical or psychological...
Sir John Beverley Robinson
Bone and Sinew of the Compact
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
John Beverley Robinson (1791–1863) was one of Upper Canada’s foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling élite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.
The loyalists had founded a colony firm in its...
Fool For Christ
The Intellectual Politics of J.S. Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1991
James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievements while providing a critical account of the Woodsworth legacy and revising the received opinion of...
Langstaff
A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
A unique and readable microhistory of an ordinary physician and his community during a period of revolutionary medical change. Duffin bases her insights on a detailed computer-assisted analysis of 40 years of extant daybooks of James Langstaff (1825-1889).
Hearing (Our) Voices
Involving Service Users in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects - one on communication with medical professionals, the other on housing - carried out by a group of people diagnosed with schizophrenia under the guidance of Professor Barbara Schneider. Participants designed the...
Haunted narratives
Life Writing in an Age of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies,...