University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Access to Medicines as a Human Right
Implications for Pharmaceutical Industry Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
According to the World Health Organization, one-third of the global population lacks access to essential medicines. Should pharmaceutical companies be ethically or legally responsible for providing affordable medicines for these people, even though they live outside of profitable markets? Can the...
Smiling Down the Line
Info-Service Work in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
Just as textile mills and automotive assembly plants have symbolized previous economic eras, the call centre stands as a potent reminder of the importance of information in contemporary economies. Bob Russell's Smiling Down the Line theorizes call centre work as info-service employment and looks at...
Staying Human During Residency Training
How to Survive and Thrive after Medical School, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents and fellows, Staying Human during Residency Training provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a resident's life – from choosing a residency program, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care,...
Staying Human during Residency Training
How to Survive and Thrive After Medical School, Sixth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The ultimate survival guide for medical students, interns, residents, and fellows, Staying Human during Residency Training provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a resident’s life – from choosing a residency program, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care,...
Three Bio-Realms
Biotechnology and the Governance of Food, Health, and Life in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Biotechnology has become one of the most important issues in public policy and governance, altering the boundaries between the public and the private, the economic and the social, and further complicating the divide between what is scientifically possible and ethically preferred. Given the importance...
At Risk
Social Justice in Child Welfare and Other Human Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
In At Risk, Karen J. Swift and Marilyn Callahan examine risk and risk assessment in the context of professional practice in child protection, social work, and other human services. They argue that the tools, technologies, and practices used to measure risk to the individual have gone unquestioned...
The World is My Classroom
International Learning and Canadian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
International education and learn-abroad programs have received heightened interest in the knowledge economy, and universities are keen to create successful programs for students. The World Is My Classroom presents diverse perspectives on these experiential learning programs and ways of globalizing...
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Obesity and the Limits of Shame
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and overweight individuals make up more than two-thirds of the adult population. Public health organizations...
Dynamic Fair Dealing
Creating Canadian Culture Online
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dynamic Fair Dealing argues that only a dynamic, flexible, and equitable approach to cultural ownership can accommodate the astonishing range of ways that we create, circulate, manage, attribute, and make use of digital cultural objects.
The Canadian legal tradition strives to balance the rights...
by John Due
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The intercity electric railway industry in Canada, which began in 1887, ended in 1959. It was never a major industry but its role in the transition of Canadian land transportation from almost sole reliance on the steam railroad to dominance of the motor vehicle should not be overlooked. Professor...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
From the portage trails snaking their way through the wilderness to superhighways carrying the raw materials and produce of an industrial nation, Canada's roads have had a romantic but long-neglected history. For the first time their development is described in this handsomely illustrated volume by...
by A.W. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1967
A.W. Currie's Canadian Transportation Economics describes and analyses the economics of transport in Canada whether by rail, highway, inland and coastal waterways, the high seas, air or pipeline. It is written to be of interest to employees of railways, steamship companies, airlines, and pipelines,...
Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy
Endangered Species Policy in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Canada and the United States are similar in terms of the species of wildlife that mingle freely across their shared border. Despite this similarity, however, there are significant differences between approaches to wildlife management in these two nations. In Land, Stewardship, and Legitimacy, Andrea...
The Wireless Spectrum
The Politics, Practices, and Poetics of Mobile Media
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
As evidenced by the clientele in any urban coffee shop, devices such as cell phones, BlackBerries, and Wi-Fi-enabled laptops have proliferated, particularly during the past ten years. The Wireless Spectrum explores how wireless technologies have modified both individual and public life, transforming...