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Public Health students examine the disease of Occupation, joined by founder of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
2011-03-17
Public Health Social Justice Collective
Graduate students from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are calling for discussion on the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories. The Public Health Social Justice Collective challenges me...

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A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Guyatt, Gord
Article
1995
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
Cancer is Capitalist Violence
Anthropology Against Oncology
McKenna, Brian
Article
2013
CounterPunch
It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how ...
Connexions Library: Health Focus
Website
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
The doctors who care
Callwood, June
Article
1985
An article about the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG), a group of progressive doctors who are challenging the medical establishment and who take the position that their profession has a responsib...
Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Weitz, Don; Diemer, Ulli
Article
2016
Connexions
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
How Class Kills
Gaffney, A. W.
Article
2015
Jacobin
A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
Medicare Myths and Realities
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine pu...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which s...
Recession led to 260k extra cancer deaths, experts claim
Radovitz, Jon Von
Article
2016
Irish Examiner
Unemployment and austerity were associated with more than 260,000 extra deaths of cancer patients in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), a study has shown. Those c...
Seven News
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1970
Seven News
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no long...

Sources Bookshelf

Social Determinants of Health
Canadian Perspectives
Raphael, Dennis (ed.)
Book
2004
The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.


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