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.
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University of Toronto Press
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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978-1-4875-4812-4 (9781487548124)
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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
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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
