Fall/Winter 2006 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

G E N E RH AE L A LT I NH T EC RAE RS ET
Aboriginal Health in Canada
Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives,
Second Edition
James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young
Numerous studies, inquires, and statistics accumulated
over the years have demonstrated the poor
health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the
Canadian population in general. While several
books have addressed specific aspects of this issue,
Aboriginal Health in Canada, originally published
in 1995, set the standard for studies in Aboriginal
health services. Now available in a fully up to date
second edition, this book is unique in the comprehensive
historical review, national scope, and combination
of methodologies that it provides.
Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex
web of factors that contribute to health and disease
patterns among the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. The
authors explore the evidence for changes in patterns of
health and disease prior to and since European contact
up to the present. They discuss medical systems
and the place of medicine within various Aboriginal
cultures and trace the relationship between politics
and the organization of health services for Aboriginal
people. They also examine popular explanations for
Aboriginal health patterns today, and emphasize the
need to understand both the historical-cultural context
of health issues and the diversity of circumstances
that give rise to variations in health problems and
healing of Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
James B. Waldram is a professor in the Department
of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan.
D. Ann Herring is a professor in the Department of
Anthropology at McMaster University.
T. Kue Young is a professor in the Department of
Public Health Sciences in Faculty of Medicine at
the University of Toronto.
Testing Treatments
Better Research for Better Healthcare
Imogen Evans, Hazel Thornton, and Iain Chalmers
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How do we know whether a particular drug, therapy
or operation really works, and how well How reliable
is the clinical evidence Such timely and pressing questions
are raised and resolved in this probing inquiry into
modern clinical research, with far-reaching implications
for daily medical practice and patient care. What
emerges from this study is the surprising truth that
clinical research is neither as unbiased, nor as relevant
as patients have every right to expect, but that everyone
– patients, doctors and researchers – can do much to
change current practice and achieve better healthcare.
Aimed at both patients and professionals, Testing
Treatments builds a lively and thought-provoking argument
for better, more reliable, more relevant research,
with unbiased or ‘fair’ trials, and explains how patients
can work with doctors to achieve this vital goal. Expertly
and thoroughly researched, the fast-moving commentary
explores a vast range of revealing case-studies,
enlivened throughout by entertaining anecdotes and
vivid eyewitness accounts drawn from the direct experience
of patients, practitioners and researchers. Often
startling, at times unsettling, but never pessimistic,
Testing Treatments remains essentially pragmatic and
constructive in tone, urging everyone to take an active
part in changing conditions, and describing what practical
steps doctors and patients can together take to
improve current research and future treatment.
Imogen Evans is a medical journalist who has practiced
and lectured in medicine in Canada and the UK.
Hazel Thornton is a writer and patient advocate.
Iain Chalmers has practiced medicine in the UK
and Palestine. Since 2002 he has coordinated the
James Lind Initiative, promoting better controlled
trials for better health care.
Approx. 352 pp / 6 x 9 / August 2006
15 illustrations
Cloth ISBN 0-8020-8792-2 / 978-0-8020-8792-8
£45.00 $70.00 E
Paper ISBN 0-8020-8579-2 / 978-0-8020-8579-5
£20.00 $29.95 C
Approx. 224 pp / 6 x 9 / July 2006
Paper ISBN 0-7123-4909-X / 978-0-7123-4909-3
$19.95 C
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