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My leaky body: tales from the gurney
Par Julie Devaney. 2012
In and out of emergency rooms in Vancouver and Toronto as she is diagnosed and treated for ulcerative colitis, Devaney…
is poked, prodded, and abandoned to a closet at one point, bearing the indignities of a system that seems hell-bent on victimizing the sick. As she recovers, she takes action, setting up a gurney on stage at workshops and conferences across the country to teach Bedside Manners 101, and to advocate for repairs to the system. Includes strong language. 2012.Musings on medicine
Par Gordon Hunter Grant. 1984
My year off: Recovering Life After A Stroke
Par Robert McCrum. 1998
Recalls the stroke suffered in 1995 by the forty-two-year-old editor-in-chief of the British publishing firm Faber and Faber. Describes the…
impact on many aspects of his life, including his two-month-old marriage to journalist Sarah Lyall. Includes day-to-day observations by both spouses during the following year. 1998.Mon dernier cheveu noir: avec quelques conseils aux anciens jeunes
Par Jean-Louis Fournier. 2007
La vieillesse, le corps et l'esprit qui fatiguent, la mort qui approche sont autant de sujets difficiles à traiter, surtout…
quand l'on est directement concerné. Pourtant, Jean-Louis Fournier parvient à en parler d'une façon incroyable : il mise tout sur l'humour. Ce n'est pas qu'il se détache de son sujet mais qu'il le traite d'une façon inédite qui nous séduit. L'auteur ne cherche pas à embellir la réalité, il la décrit telle qu'il la voit, telle qu'il la vit. 2007.Mon histoire naturelle: vétérinaire auprès des animaux sauvages
Par Marie-Claude Bomsel, Béatrice Madeline. 2016
De son éducation versaillaise et anticonformiste à la jungle des plateaux de télévision, Marie-Claude Bomsel a suivi un parcours hors…
du commun. Depuis plus de quarante ans, cette femme vétérinaire conte aux Français, à la radio ou à la télévision, les histoires de ses animaux, ceux qu'elle aime et protège avec ardeur depuis son enfance. Drôles, touchantes, étonnantes, ces anecdotes, issues de sa carrière de vétérinaire puis de directrice de la Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes à Paris, rappellent combien les animaux sont proches de l'homme, doués de sensibilité et d'une intelligence parfois ignorée. Riche de ses très nombreux voyages sur tous les continents, Marie-Claude Bomsel livre aussi un plaidoyer, à l'heure où l'avenir de la planète est en question, en faveur d'une meilleure protection de la condition animale et de la sauvegarde de la nature. 2016.Morgue: a life in death
Par Ron Franscell, Vincent J. M Di Maio. 2016
Forensic science is booming. TV dramas, books and movies have made morgues cool. Complex technology and intricate research can take…
curdled blood, bone shards, and flakes of skin and turn them into justice. And Vincent Di Maio, MD, son of a famous New York City medical examiner, is one of the lions of forensic science in his own right. Di Maio guides us into the inner sanctum, through the cases that have made him famous, from the exhumation of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and the racially charged shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, to the unmasking of a serial baby-killer and the mysterious death of troubled genius Vincent van Gogh. 2016.Mountains, campfires & memories
Par Jack Boudreau. 2002
In the backwoods of British Columbia, Boudreau tells of adventures gone awry, bizarre encounters with creatures in the wilds, and…
the results of friendships gone sour. When men went missing, or furs were stolen, it was often up to the local police officer or game warden to don his hunting gear to track down the hunter or the hunted. 2002.Most of my patients are animals
Par Robert M Miller. 1985
The author is a veterinarian in California. Although his speciality is equine medicine, he has doctored every type of animal,…
from poodles to panthers. For junior and senior high readers. c1985.Moondust: in search of the men who fell to Earth
Par Andrew Smith. 2005
Smith set out to find and interview the remaining nine astronauts who have walked on the moon, in order to…
learn how their lives, and ours, were changed forever by this surreal adventure. Some strong language. 2005.Mother warriors: a nation of parents healing autism against all odds
Par Jenny McCarthy. 2008
When Jenny McCarthy published her story of her successful efforts to save her son from autism, though the reaction was…
tremendous, she hadn't anticipated the overwhelming response from other parents of autistic children who wanted to share their own stories. Here Jenny expands her message to share these stories, showing how each parent fought to find her own child's perfect "remedy of interventions." Along the way, Jenny shares her own journey as an autism advocate and mother, as well as the continuing progress of her son, Evan. 2008.Morgentaler: a difficult hero : a biography
Par Catherine Dunphy. 1996
Well-known as one of Canada's most controversial figures, Henry Morgentaler is portrayed as a man of many contradictions. This biography…
of Morgentaler is based on interviews with colleagues, friends, family, and Morgentaler himself, and covers his youth and experiences during the Holocaust, as well as his career in Canada and his legal struggles. 1996.Mountains beyond mountains: The Quest Of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World
Par Tracy Kidder. 2003
Cultural biography of Paul Farmer, physician, Harvard professor, anthropologist, and infectious disease specialist with a mission to improve medical conditions…
in remote locations. Recounts his founding of Partners in Health, recognition for creating a public health system in disease-ridden settlements of Haiti, and travels among unserved peoples in Latin America and Russia. 2003.Le génie dédaigné: Einstein et la Suisse
Par Alexis Schwarzenbach, Etienne Barilier. 2005
Le bien-vieillir: la révolution de l'âge
Par Maurice Tubiana. 2003
Le thème central de cet ouvrage est l'impact du vieillissement sur les différentes parties du corps, sur la fréquence de…
certaines maladies et sur les fonctions intellectuelles. Sont aussi considérés les aspects social et psychologique de la vieillesse. 2003.Mère amour: accompagner le grand âge ((Marabout ; 3873).)
Par Dominique Raoul-Duval. 2013
"Fondée sur l'altruisme et la réflexion, une magnifique leçon de vie et de fin de vie. Si l'affection, l'amour sont…
d'une aide puissante à la cohabitation, aux soins et aux visites des parents entrés dans la grande vieillesse, ils ne sont plus suffisants. Quand les petites cellules de la mémoire disparaissent, que les échanges s'appauvrissent, que la dépendance physique s'accentue, on ne peut plus se comporter comme avant. Comment aborder cette dernière période de la vie ? En la rendant positive, active, en combattant la résignation et la passivité devant l'inéluctable. Même s'il est difficile, ardu parfois, de devenir la mère de sa mère, on peut apprendre, au jour le jour, à construire ces nouvelles relations, et même à les enrichir. Écrit à la première personne d'une plume légère et sensible, ce livre voudrait être un mode d'emploi du grand âge. C'est aussi, dans la longue durée, l'histoire d'une fille et de sa mère. " -- 4e de couv.Metamorphosis: stages in a life
Par David T Suzuki. 1987
Biography of the host of CBC's television program, "The Nature of Things". He tells of his childhood on the West…
Coast, especially his detention during World War II in a concentration camp for Japanese-Canadians. He also describes people and events that have changed his life. 1987.Memory's last breath: field notes on my dementia
Par Gerda Saunders. 2017
Based on the "field notes" the author keeps in her journal, this is a window into a life distorted by…
dementia. She writes about shopping trips cut short by unintentional shoplifting, car journeys derailed when she loses her bearings, and the embarrassment of forgetting what she has just said to a room of colleagues. Coping with the complications of losing short-term memory, Saunders nonetheless embarks on a personal investigation of the brain and its mysteries, examining science and literature, and immersing herself in vivid memories of her childhood in South Africa. 2017.Meet Chris Hadfield (Scholastic Canada biography)
Par Elizabeth MacLeod. 2018
Meet Colonel Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space - and make a music video while in orbit!…
When Chris Hadfield was a boy, growing up on a farm in Milton, Ontario, Canada didn't have a space program. But from the moment he saw a man first walk on the moon, young Chris decided he would somehow get to space. And with everything Chris did, from learning to fix farm machinery and joining the Air Cadets to flying fighter planes and becoming a test pilot, he prepared himself to get there. Chris Hadfield has rocketed into space three times, been on two space walks and was the first Canadian to command the International Space Station. And nobody plays a guitar in space or rocks a mustache better! Includes a timeline. Grades 2-4. 2018.Medicine, madams and mounties: stories of a Yukon doctor
Par Allan Duncan. 1989
McCurdy and the Silver Dart
Par Les Harding. 1998
J.A.D. McCurdy became one of Canada's aviation pioneers for his design of a biplane called the Silver Dart. This book…
recounts his experiments with kites and planes and his 1909 landmark flight above the ice of the Bras d'Or. Although it crashed six months later, the Silver Dart's engine rests in the National Aviation Museum today, a reminder of the first person to fly out of sight of land. Grades 4-7. 1998.