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By Amnon Jacob Suissa, Gina Rocheleau. 1998
L'auteur soutient que l'alcoolisme n'est pas une maladie qu'il faut soigner, et s'inscrit ainsi en faux par rapport au discours…
des Alcooliques Anonymes. Elle démontre comment : "[...] cette conception pathologique du phénomène des dépendances a des effets pervers non seulement sur l'individu en question mais aussi sur ses proches et son milieu social. [Et que ] prétendre ainsi que l'alcoolisme est une maladie devant laquelle la personne est en perte de contrôle (une fois alcoolique, toujours alcoolique), c'est affirmer d'avance l'échec d'un individu à pouvoir se reprendre en main et considérer que la seule prescription possible est l'abstinence totale. La médicalisation de l'alcoolisme contribue ainsi à déresponsabiliser et à déculpabiliser l'individu et son réseau sociofamilial en ne lui offrant par les moyens réels de s'en sortir. Au contrôle croissant de l'approche médicale, l'auteur oppose une approche qui met en valeur les compétences des êtres humains et leur capacité de procéder à des changements dans leur style de vie et dans leur milieu social, familial et professionnel. [...]" -- 4e de couv.By Roger Bessis. 2007
"Avant, tout semblait simple : la reproduction était le résultat de la sexualité et le foetus se développait dans le…
mystère du ventre maternel. Rompant avec des millénaires d'inconnu et de fatalisme, la médecine du foetus permet maintenant de connaître tous les détails de la période intra-utérine, de détecter précocement les troubles du développement prénatal et, le cas échéant, d'y remédier. Les bouleversements autour de la reproduction font cependant surgir mille questions médicales, juridiques, morales, éthiques et sociales qui exigent des choix cohérents. Le débat sur la question foetale a été jusqu'ici occulté tant est grande la crainte qu'il nuise au droit des femmes à l'avortement. L'individualisation du foetus ne s'y oppose pourtant en rien. Implicitement, mais certainement, une nouvelle société se dessine et le statut du foetus reste dans le flou. Il devient urgent de penser cette question de manière objective, de dépasser l'opposition entre chose et personne dans laquelle nous restons enfermés par peur d'ouvrir la boîte de Pandore." -- 4e de couv.By Stéphane Horel. 2008
"Dans nos maisons, à notre insu, des milliers de substances chimiques partagent notre vie quotidienne, nichées dans la nourriture et…
l'eau, incrustées dans les détergents, les plastiques ou les tissus. Les hommes, les femmes, les enfants et même les ours polaires ont dans le sang des produits chimiques censés se trouver dans les tapis et grille-pains du monde moderne. Quels sont les risques pour la santé ? Tandis que l'industrie défend ses marchés et ses secrets de fabrication, les scientifiques s'inquiètent de l'augmentation de l'asthme, de certains cancers, de troubles du développement et du comportement ou de la chute spectaculaire de la fertilité dans les pays développés. Pour eux, cette pollution invisible et continue empoisonne l'humanité en toute discrétion, et touche en premier lieu les bébés. Souvent ignorée dans le débat environnemental, cette "Grande Invasion" soulève des questions qui dépassent largement le domaine de la médecine et de la science. Elle touche à l'organisation de nos systèmes économiques et politiques, et aux fondements de nos sociétés de profusion. En dévoilant l'identité chimique des produits de consommation courante, cette enquête rend accessible les travaux scientifiques les plus récents et propose des solutions pratiques pour se préserver." -- 4e de couv.By Kamal Al-Solaylee. 2016
Brown is not white. Brown is not black. Brown is an experience, a state of mind. Historically speaking, issues of…
race and skin colour have been interpreted along black and white lines, leaving out millions of people whose stories of migration and racial experiences have shaped our modern world. The book takes a global look at the many social, political, economic and personal implications of being a brown-skinned person in the world now. Brown people have emerged as the source of global cheap labour (Hispanics or South Asians) while also coming under scrutiny and suspicion for their culture and faith (Arabs and Muslims). Packed with personal narratives and on-the-street reporting conducted over two years in ten countries from four continents. Winner of the 2016 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 2016.By Harold Johnson. 2016
Drawing on his years of experience as a Crown Prosecutor in Treaty 6 territory, the author challenges readers to change…
the story we tell ourselves about the drink that goes by many names—booze, hooch, spirits, sauce, and the evocative “firewater.” Confronting the harmful stereotype of the “lazy, drunken Indian,” and rejecting medical, social, and psychological explanations of the roots of alcoholism, Johnson cries out for solutions, not diagnoses, and shows how alcohol continues to kill so many. Bestseller. 2016.By Stephen Lewis. 2005
Stephen Lewis advances real solutions to help societies across the globe achieve the Millennium Goals, established by the UN in…
2000, a series of 8 goals to lay the foundation for a prosperous future. He shows how dreams such as universal primary education, a successful war against the AIDS pandemic, and environmental sustainability are within the grasp of humanity. 2005. (CBC Massey lectures series)By Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2015
Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race", a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily…
on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? In a letter to his adolescent son, the author shares the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Bestseller. Winner of the National Book Award. 2015.By Anne Helen Petersen. 2017
A popular BuzzFeed columnist examines the phenomenon of popular provocative womanhood to discuss the rise of such counterculture stars as…
Amy Schumer, Nicki Minaj, and Caitlyn Jenner, exploring why they are popular in spite of nonconforming behaviors. 2017.By Scaachi Koul. 2017
In suburban Calgary, at a young and impressionable age, Scaachi Koul learned what made her miserable. Not just uncomfortable, not…
just mild irritants, not just the long commute you have in the morning: things that make you doubt your humanity. And it turns out, everything did. Scaachi shares her observations, fears and experiences as a woman of colour growing up in Canada. These are stories ranging from shaving her knuckles in grade school, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry, to internet garbage, to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrated parents and bled down a generation. Stories of returning to India where her parents grew up, and ultimately about trying to find her place in the world. 2017.By Matthew Whyman. 2000
Drawing on real teenagers' experiences and statistics, this guide discusses smoking. It includes advice on coping with peer pressure and…
resisting temptation. It also provides practical strategies for giving up smoking and hard-hitting information on its effects.By Susan Krieger. 2005
Krieger, a sociologist and writer who is also losing her vision to a rare eye disease, goes bird watching in…
New Mexico, learns to use a white cane, revisits an old love, and returns to the summer camp of her youth, while reflecting on the nature of blindness and sight. She explains that that while outer landscapes may change, the inner visions persist, giving meaning and jarring the senses with a very different picture from what appears before the eyes. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.By Michael Longley. 2000
This book of poetry leads the reader through the various hells we made last century. The author takes us from…
the fields of Flanders, through Terezin and Auschwitz to the troubles of Northern Ireland.By J. D. Vance. 2016
Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan…
that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past. Bestseller. 2016.By Jivani. Jamil. 2018
The day after the 2015 Paris terror attacks, twenty-eight-year-old Canadian Jamil Jivani opened the newspaper to find that the men…
responsible were familiar to him. He didn’t know them, but the communities they grew up in and the challenges they faced mirrored the circumstances of his own life. Jivani travelled to Belgium in February 2016 to better understand the roots of jihadi radicalization. Less than two months later, Brussels fell victim to a terrorist attack carried out by young men who lived in the same neighbourhood as him. Jivani was raised in a mostly immigrant community in Toronto that faced significant problems with integration. Having grown up with a largely absent father, he knows what it is to watch a man’s future influenced by gangster culture or radical ideologies associated with Islam. 2018.By David J Pelzer. 2000
Dave Pelzer describes his life in foster care. He moves through five different homes and describes his heart-rending encounters with…
other foster parents and children, some of whom resent his presence, some of whom help him. Through it all he is pursued by his mother. Eventually he finds a life for himself, having come to terms with the terrible things inflicted on him. Sequel to "A child called "it"" (EB68906), followed by "A man named Dave" (EB69090). Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2000.By Ronda Armitage. 1999
"Family violence" looks at the many different forms that violence can take. Using interviews with victims of domestic violence and…
their families, the book examines the ways in which their emotional, social and educational lives have been affected. For junior high readers.By Susan Stewart. 1998
An account of five years in the life of an ordinary woman and her initial struggle to keep her abusive…
marriage above suspicion, her unconventional escape and her time spent in a 1990s refuge. Through her personal diary the reader glimpses communal life in a refuge with three other families.By Virginia Parker. 1996
By Ed Cassidy Jane. 1999
By Rosemary Stones. 1998