Breaking Canadians - Nili Kaplan-Myrth

Breaking Canadians

Health Care, Advocacy, and the Toll of COVID-19
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2024
Aevo Utp (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4812-4 (ISBN)
23,65 inkl. MwSt
Bringing together physicians, health care workers, and community advocates from across the country, Breaking Canadians shares firsthand stories about the personal, professional, and political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on people worldwide. The death tolls, the economic disruptions, the impact on our children’s education, and the extended periods of social and physical distancing have left us feeling demoralized, exhausted, angry, and burned out.

Breaking Canadians brings together health care experts, community advocates, and average citizens from across Canada to offer a unique analysis of the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book explores the fragmentation of Canada’s health care system, the growth of social inequalities, and the impact of colonialism, racism, ableism, and ageism on the well-being of people in this country. It sheds light on the people our health care system undervalues and overlooks, including nurses, social workers, and essential caregivers.

An important collection of stories, insights, cautionary tales, and calls for action, Breaking Canadians is also a harbinger of what is to come if we do not learn, change our trajectory, and fix what is broken.

Nili Kaplan-Myrth is a lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She is a family physician, anthropologist, Fulbright and Commonwealth scholar, and mother of three who has spent her life advocating for equitable access to health care, Indigenous self-determination in health, disability rights, 2SLGBTQ health, and mental health care. Dr. Brian Goldman is the bestselling author of The Power of Kindness: Why Empathy Is Essential in Everyday Life, host of CBC’s White Coat, Black Art, and a veteran emergency room physician. Sue Robins is a health care activist, speaker, and author of Ducks in a Row: Health Care Reimagined

Foreword
Dr. Brian Goldman

Introduction: I Can’t. I’m Too Broken
Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth

Part I: In the Community

1. Casualty
Lynda Hurley

2. Pandemic, Alone
Leora Eisen

3. Present Tense
Tania J. Spencer

4. A Community Divided
Anonymous

5. BC: Breaking Cancer
Dr. Jaigris Hodson

6. Learning to Count
Eleanor Ramphal

7. The Spring
Dr. David Keegan

Part II: At the Margins

8. Long-Term Care or Long-Term Crime?
Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos

9. Go Home
Kimiko Shibata

10. Ableism
Kenzie McCurdy

11. Still Here
Reverend Canon Maggie Helwig

12. The Pandemic Changed Nothing (For Worse and Better)
Meagan Gillmore

13. Wild Teens: Youth Mental Health and the Pandemic
Dr. Gail Beck

14. The Pandemic Ends … Then What?
Annie Lin

Part III: The Crumbling Base

15. Resilience Is a Dirty Word
Debra Lefebvre

16. Men Write the Policies, Women Face the Results
Dr. Michelle Cohen

17. #InThisTogether Is Only a Hashtag
Maggie Kerastaci

18. Invisible
Sarah Kaplan

19. The Levee Has Broken
Kim English

Part IV: No Simple Fixes

20. “We’re all in this together”: COVID-19 and Principles of Environmental Justice
Dr. Jane E. McArthur

21. This Ain’t No Flu
Dr. Steve Flindall

22. The Doctor as Advocate
Dr. Joe Vipond

23. Disability Rights and Advocacy
Dr. Christopher Leighton

24. “Truth”
Dr. Imogen Coe

25. I Work in a Hospital. You Are an Internet Troll. We Are Not the Same
Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook

26. How to Be Wrong: Reflections on the (Non)Evolution of Applied Medical Science during Epidemics
Dr. David Fisman

Postscript: Roll Up Your Sleeves
Sue Robins

Erscheinungsdatum
Nachwort Sue Robins
Vorwort Brian Goldman
Zusatzinfo 8 b&w figures
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 380 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
ISBN-10 1-4875-4812-5 / 1487548125
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-4812-4 / 9781487548124
Zustand Neuware
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