Breaking Canadians : Health Care, Advocacy, and the Toll of COVID-19.

Bringing together physicians, health care workers, and community advocates from across the country, Breaking Canadiansshares firsthand stories about the personal, professional, and political impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Kaplan-Myrth, Nili
Other Authors / Creators:Goldman, Brian.
Robins, Sue.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024.
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Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Praise for Breaking Canadians
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: I Can't. I'm Too Broken
  • PART I: IN THE COMMUNITY
  • 1 Casualty
  • 2 Pandemic, Alone
  • 3 Present Tense
  • 4 A Community Divided
  • 5 BC
  • Breaking Cancer
  • 6 Learning to Count
  • 7 The Spring
  • PART II: AT THE MARGINS
  • 8 Long-Term Care or Long-Term Crime?
  • 9 Go Home
  • 10 Ableism
  • 11 Still Here
  • 12 The Pandemic Changed Nothing (for Worse and Better)
  • 13 Wild Teens: Youth Mental Health and the Pandemic
  • 14 The Pandemic Ends ... Then What?
  • PART III: THE CRUMBLING BASE
  • 15 Resilience Is a Dirty Word
  • 16 Men Write the Policies, Women Face the Results
  • 17 #InItTogether Is Only a Hashtag for Canadian Caregivers
  • 18 Invisible
  • 19 The Levee Has Broken
  • PART IV: NO SIMPLE FIXES
  • 20 "We're All in This Together": COVID-19 and Principles of Environmental Justice
  • 21 This Ain't No Flu
  • 22 The Doctor as Advocate
  • 23 Disability Rights and Advocacy
  • 24 "Truth"
  • 25 I Work in a Hospital. You Are an Internet Troll. We Are Not the Same
  • 26 How to Be Wrong: Reflections on the (Non)Evolution of Applied Medical Science during Epidemics
  • Postscript: Roll Up Your Sleeves
  • Notes