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  • A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants

    Herbal Medicine Past and Present

    Reissued as a companion edition to Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine, this illustrated reference guide covers over 700 medicinal plants, of which more than 150 are readily obtainable in health food stores and other outlets. Based on the Appalachian herbal practice of the late A. L. "Tommie" Bass, each account of a plant includes the herbalist’s comment, an ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Trying to Give Ease

    Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine

    In Trying to Give Ease, John K. Crellin and Jane Philpott focus on the life, practices, and accumulated knowledge of the late A. L. "Tommie" Bass, a widely known and admired Appalachian herbalist. Informed by insights drawn from several disciplines, particularly anthropology, their broad historical analyses of self-care practices and herbal remedies draw heavily on recorded interviews with Bass ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Public Expectations and Physicians' Responsibilities

    Voices of Medical Humanities

    by John Crellin ...
    This guide for practice managers, in a question-and-answer format, explains accounting procedures and describes GMS, health authority and other sources of income. The book covers payroll, pension, personnel and complaints matters and advises on optimizing income for the practice. ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century

    To Be Taken Three Times a Day

    Get a fresh perspective on the day-to-day use of medicine!A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century explores the most perplexing issues concerning the uses of prescriptions and other medicines on both sides of the Atlantic. The book equips you with a thorough understanding of the everyday use of medicine in the United States, Canada, and Britain, concentrating on its recent past. Dr. ... Read more

    $138.78 CAD

  • Health Care

    A Postcard History of Twentieth-Century Attitudes and Practices

    Ever since their early twentieth-century “Golden Age,” postcards on both sides of the Atlantic have recorded popular culture. Through humour, views of urban and rural places, photographs of individuals, fantasy, advertising, and succinct messages, they have documented art and entertainment, social events, commercial practices, reform movements, political propaganda, and countless byways of society ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Newfoundland Drugstores

    A History

    Although primarily associated with filling doctors' prescriptions and selling medicines and other items for self-care, historically drugstores have also been operated as general stores, selling an intriguing range of toiletries, perfumery, confectionery, seeds for the garden, and household items. For many years, the shopping experiences of customers owed a good deal to the distinctive drugstore ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Mi'sel Joe

    An Aboriginal Chief’s Journey

    The inspirational memoir of a Mi'kmaq civil rights leader. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Professionalism and Ethics in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

    Gain a better understanding of the complex issues that will decide the future of health care!This is the first book of its kind in the rapidly growing field of complementary and alternative medicine. It addresses quality-of-care concerns and also focuses on the goals of many practitioners: to secure a firm place for their practice in health care systems and to establish levels of integration. ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

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    How Alternative Medicine Makes Fools of Us All

    by Rose Shapiro ...
    'Alternative' medicine is now used by one in three of us. In the UK we spend an estimated £4.5 billion a year on it and its practitioners are now insinuating themselves into the mainstream. There are methods based on ancient or far-eastern medicine, as well as ones invented in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Many are promoted as natural treatments. What they have in common is that there is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • When Healing Becomes a Crime

    The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies

    by Kenny Ausubel ...
    A powerful and substantiated expose of the medical politics that prevents promising alternative cancer therapies from being implemented in the United States.• Focuses on Harry Hoxsey, the subject of the author's award-winning documentary, who claimed to cure cancer using herbal remedies.• Presents scientific evidence supporting Hoxsey's cancer-fighting claims.• Published to coincide with the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Spin Doctors

    The Chiropractic Industry Under Examination

    Canadians visit chiropractors about 30 million times a year, and surveys show that patients are generally satisfied with their treatment. But studies also show that as many as two hundred Canadians a year suffer strokes brought on by neck manipulation. Spin Doctors takes a hard, dramatic, and spine-chilling look into the world of chiropractic medicine. You will be surprised to learn what ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Good Drugs Go Bad

    Opium, Medicine, and the Origins of Canada’s Drug Laws

    by Dan Malleck ...
    Throughout the 1800s, opium and cocaine could be easily obtained to treat a range of ailments in Canada. Dependency, when it occurred, was considered a matter of personal vice. Near the end of the century, attitudes shifted and access to drugs became more restricted. How did this happen? Dan Malleck examines the conditions that led to Canada’s current drug laws. Drawing on newspaper accounts, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD