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Clicking on the title of an item takes you to the bibliographic page for the resource, which typically also contains an abstract, a link to the full text if it is available online, and links to related topics in the subject index. You can find items through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
  2. Alternative Press Center
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
  3. AlterNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Online news magazine and community featuring original journalism as well as material from many other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and other issues.
  4. The AT Reader
    Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  5. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  6. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
  7. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  8. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  9. Connexions Annual Overview: Health
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  10. Connexions Library: Health Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
  11. Critical Paths
    Organizing on health Issues in the community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  12. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
  13. Health and environmental victories for South African activists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
  14. HealthWatcher.net Consumer Health Watchdog
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Web site which seek to expose quackeryand bogus practices in health care, including cancer quackery and diet scams.
  15. Mirage of Health
    Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959   Published: 1979
  16. Moral Threats and Dangerous Desires
    AIDS in the News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    "The mass media have played a key role in constructing public understandings of the epidemic. In the majority of instances, HIV-related disease has been presented as a condition affecting social and/or demographic minorities -- groups whose exceptional behaviour has put them at special risk. Yet at the same time, HIV and AIDS are said to threaten us all: be we heterosexual, lesbian or gay, be we young or somewhat older; be we of minority or majority ethnic status."
  17. Out of Africa: A Migrant's Story
    New Internationalist June 2005 - #379
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    An issue on the story of a nurse's return back to Kenya and the reason why she has worked so far away from home. Also, a discussion on a widespread crisis in international healthcare and the human costs of our global free-market economy
  18. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1889
  19. Sugar The sugar trap
    New Internationalist December 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    A look into sugar as a consumer product and its corporate globalization. Discusses trade and business of sugar, its history with slavery as well as its effects on the body.
  20. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
  21. World Health Organization
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The WHO is the United Nations' specialized agency for health, established inl 1948. WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Experts on Health in the Sources Directory

  1. Association of Local Public Health Agencies
  2. BC Nurses' Union
  3. Can-Fit-Pro
  4. Canada Health Infoway
  5. Canadian Academy of Periodontology
  6. The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
  7. Canadian Down Syndrome Society
  8. Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
  9. Christian Science Committees on Publication in Canada
  10. Citizens for Public Justice
  11. The Cochrane Collaboration / The Cochrane Library
  12. College of Nurses of Ontario
  13. Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN)
  14. Holistic Cooking Academy of Canada
  15. iPower Fitness
  16. Ontario Nurses' Association
  17. Ontario Public Health Association
  18. ParticipACTION
  19. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
  20. Society of Rural Physicians of Canada
  21. Wilfrid Laurier University
  22. World Health Organization


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Indexed by Author, Title, Format, Subject, Dewey number, Library of Congress classification, Year of Publication.
Connexions Directory Associations and NGOs dealing with social and environmental issues — A-Z Index or Subject Index.
For experts and media spokespersons also see the Sources directory and the comprehensive Sources Subject Index.
Links Selected Internet resources featuring information about alternatives.
Calendar Events from across Canada. Also see: Sources Calendar and news releases.
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Mission Connexions exists to support individuals and groups working for freedom and social justice. We work to maintain and make available a record of the theory and practice of people struggling against oppression and for social change. We believe that the more we know about the struggles, victories, and defeats of the past, and about those who took part in them, the better equipped we will be to bring a new world into being. Connexions maintains a physical archive of books and documents, and is engaged in an ongoing project to build and expand an indexed digital archive of documents. We try to feature a wide variety of resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of expression, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. We are internationalist in our orientation, but as a Canadian-based project we feature an especially extensive collection of Canadian documents and profiles of Canadian activist organizations.