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  • Spirits in the Consulting Room

    Eight Tales of Healing

    by Serge Bouznah, Catherine Lewertowski ...
    Translated by Carmella Abramowitz Moreau ...
    Series series Rutgers Global Health
    For any country that has a large and diverse migrant population, it is a struggle to connect these people to the country’s institutions, including the healthcare system, which can be overwhelming in its complexity. Cultural and language barriers often make it difficult for doctors to fully understand the symptoms of their migrant patients, reach accurate diagnoses, or properly treat their ... Read more

    $31.29 CAD

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  • The Ancestor Syndrome

    Transgenerational Psychotherapy and the Hidden Links in the Family Tree

    by Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger ...
    Translated by Anne Trager ...
    In The Ancestor Syndrome Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger explains and provides clinical examples of her unique psychogenealogical approach to psychotherapy. She shows how, as mere links in a chain of generations, we may have no choice in having the events and traumas experienced by our ancestors visited upon us in our own lifetime.The book includes fascinating case studies and examples of ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Why Do People Get Ill?

    Exploring the Mind-body Connection

    by Darian Leader, David Corfield ...
    'Well-argued, thought-provoking . . . will make you think twice before reaching for the painkillers' Daily MailHave you ever wondered why we get ill? Can our thoughts and feelings worsen or even cause conditions like heart disease, cancer or asthma? And what - if anything - can we do about it?Why Do People Get Ill? explores the relationship between what's going on in our heads and what happens in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Shapeshifters

    A Journey Through the Changing Human Body

    by Gavin Francis ...
    From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human lifeTo be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Our Grateful Dead

    Stories of Those Left Behind

    by Vinciane Despret ...
    Translated by Stephen Muecke ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the livingA common remedy after suffering the loss of a loved one is to progress through the “stages of grief,” with “acceptance” as the final stage in the process. But is it necessary to leave death behind, to stop dwelling on the dead, to get over the pain? Vinciane Despret thinks not. In her fascinating, elegantly ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • History of Medicine

    A Scandalously Short Introduction, Third Edition

    by Jacalyn Duffin ...
    Jacalyn Duffin's History of Medicine is one of the leading texts used to teach the history of the medical profession. Emphasizing broad concepts rather than names and dates, it has also been widely appreciated by general readers for more than twenty years. Based on sound scholarship and meticulous research, History of Medicine incorporates pithy examples from a range of periods and places and is ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Speech Begins after Death

    by Michel Foucault, Claude Bonnefoy ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is now being published for the first time in English. In this brief and ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Narcocapitalism

    Life in the Age of Anaesthesia

    by Laurent de Sutter ...
    Translated by Barnaby Norman ...
    What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age of anaesthesia'. Laurent de Sutter shows how large aspects of our lives are now characterised by the management of our emotions through drugs, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Dreamwork

    by Peter Philippson ...
    Series Book 2 - Topics in Gestalt Therapy
    I love working with dreams. I have found that they have the capacity to move therapy work on to a new level, both in individual and group therapy. They speak from a place that is outside the familiar, and often to what is not being attended to, or avoided in life and therapy.In this paper, I start with a (non-exhaustive) list of ways in which we could work with dreams. It is also not a set of ... Read more

    $3.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Suburban Shaman

    tales from medicine's frontline

    by Cecil Helman ...
    Medicine is not just about science. It's also all about stories, and about the mingling of narratives among doctors, and between them and their patients.' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in and around London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist, comparing a wide variety of medical systems and other forms of healing. This unique ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day.Alienation and Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output – which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more ... Read more

    $68.39 CAD