Science, Technology & Environment

Chronic Condition: Why Canada’s Health Care System Needs to Be Dragged into the 21st Century

Canadians routinely claim that no policy issue is more important to them than public health care, yet no one wants to have a frank conversation about the sacrifices necessary to keep it. In an attempt ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

By Alan Cassels

What will happen if I do nothing? Most patients are conditioned to avoid asking that question after a self-assured physician reports the result of a test or investigative procedure that uncovers evidence of a scary ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ My Leaky Body: Tales from the Gurney

By Julie Devaney

Part memoir, part manifesto, Julie Devaney’s profoundly honest new book should be required reading for anyone who may ever have to visit a hospital – which means, in effect, everyone. The book details Devaney’s painful ... Read More »

August 13, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain

By Jay Ingram

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as Mad Cow Disease, is nothing new to science, but over the past two decades the scale of human tragedy and the huge toll on the beef industry due ... Read More »

May 15, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age

By Modris Eksteins

Van Gogh. Few other names carry so much cultural weight. Simply mentioning the Dutch painter calls forth myriad associations: the ubiquity of Sunflowers and Starry Night; the mystery of the severed ear; madness; depression; his ... Read More »

February 7, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Facing the Hunter: Reflections on a Misunderstood Pursuit

By David Adams Richards

More than a decade after Lines on the Water, his 1998 Governor General’s Literary Award–winning non-fiction book about fishing on the Miramichi River, David Adams Richards returns to the Northern New Brunswick of his youth, ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society

By Ian Dowbiggin

According to a 2009 report from the Public Health Agency of Canada, a whopping 20 per cent of Canadians will experience some mental health issue in their lifetimes. This includes 4.8 per cent who will ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Siesta and the Midnight Sun: How Our Bodies Experience Time

By Jessa Gamble

At one point in our collective history, humans didn’t measure time. At least, not in the neatly segmented, overly regimented way we do now around most of the planet. In the past, time was measured ... Read More »

November 15, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Callously Targets Children

By Joel Bakan

University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan scored a surprise bestseller with The Corporation, the 2003 book developed alongside the feature-film documentary of the same name. Bakan resumes his anti-corporate attack with this account ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge

By Tzeporah Berman with Mark Leiran-Young

As Tzeporah Berman, co-director of Greenpeace International’s climate and energy program, explains in her memoir, the history of social movements is filled with familiar patterns. A movement may begin as a fringe protest, but once ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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