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  1. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  2. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  3. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
  4. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  5. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  6. Connexions Library: Health
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  7. Dr. med. Mabuse
    Zeitschrift im Gesundheitswesen

    Resource Type: Organization
    Die B#cher des Mabuse-Verlags und unsere Zeitschrift, Dr. med. Mabuse, sind einer sozialen und humanen Medizin und Pflege verpflichtet und wenden sich nicht nur an Fachkr#fte im Gesundheitswesen, sondern wollen allen Interessierten Zugang zum Thema ermöglichen. Der schwierige, aber notwendige Dialog zwischen den Berufsgruppen liegt uns hierbei besonders am Herzen.
  8. From Gaza, with Love
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2008
    A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
  9. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  10. The Healthsharing Book
    Resources for Canadian Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  11. 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.
  12. Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  13. Quackwatch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Purpose is to combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies. Its primary focus is on quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. Includes links to other interesting websites.
  14. Safety Last
    The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Regush investigates how new medical devices and drugs are tested. He argues that the health protection bureaucracy is doing shoddy work, caving in to pressure from pharmaceutical corporations instead of acting to safeguard the health of Canadians.
  15. Secrets, Lies and Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian
  16. Take Care
    Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
  17. Ten Health Care Myths
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.

Experts on Health Care in the Sources Directory

  1. Canada Health Infoway
  2. Canadian Academy of Periodontology
  3. Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors
  4. The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
  5. Canadian Institute of Actuaries
  6. College of Nurses of Ontario
  7. College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario
  8. College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario
  9. IMS HEALTH Canada
  10. Institute for Work & Health
  11. Dr. Anthony W. Martin, Author of Medical Crisis: Secrets Your Doctor Won't Share With You
  12. The Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences
  13. National Union of Public and General Employees
  14. Ontario Association of Medical Radiation Technologists
  15. Ontario Homeopathic Association
  16. Ontario Nurses' Association
  17. Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario
  18. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario
  19. Toronto Rehab
  20. Wilfrid Laurier University

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