Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

As seen on Good Morning America A darkly humorous and inspiring first-person account of the larger-than-life exploits and ultimate redemption of an...

Health care is Canada s best-loved social program and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services ba...

When soldiers at Fort Carson were charged with a series of 14 murders, PTSD and other invisible wounds of war were thrown into the national spotlig...

An original ethnography of sound and listening in one of our major institutions, Hearing and the Hospital reveals the hospital to be a space in whi...

Antivaxxers are crazy. That is the perception we all gain from the media, the internet, celebrities, and beyond, writes Bernice Hausman in Anti/Vax...

In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, the...

Theyre trying. Despite everything. Theyre really trying. They almost work together, beautifully. Looking at what is inherited and who is responsib...

Recently, there has been a rise in opioid use in the United States involving both the nonmedical use of prescription drugs and more traditional ill...

This collection of essays provides a provocative critique of leadership on HIV/AIDS in Africa from the 1980s to the present. It examines the rhetor...

The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizers CEO Dr. A...

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an ...

A passionate call to action, Firewater examines alcoholits history, the myths surrounding it, and its devastating impact on Indigenous people. Dra...

This first book by Michael McMillan spans over 50 years of his life as told through the lyrics from his three solo albums, Cold and Roofless, Faith...