Recent Publications

Women’s Health: Intersections of Policy, Research, and Practice

Pat Armstrong & Jennifer Deadman, Editors

While women comprise the largest segment of health workers, health consumers, and health decision-makers for their families and communities, it has often been difficult for women to make themselves heard. Women’s Health focuses on women’s health issues from multiple perspectives and draw upon research and practice that include both qualitative and quantitative methodologies in data collection and knowledge formation.

Women’s Health incorporates work that has been produced from grass roots investigations of women’s health issues and addresses specific health issues, diversity issues, and a variety of issues previously unexplored. In an effort to exemplify alternative forms of knowledge collection, and the importance of inclusiveness, diversity, and realism when understanding the various facets of women’s health, Women’s Health also highlights the work of women whose voices may not normally be heard or recognized—in a way that stretches beyond the traditional parameters of knowledge-sharing practices.

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Highs & Lows: Canadian Perspectives of Women and Substance Use

Nancy Poole and Lorraine Greaves, Editors

Highs & Lows was developed through a partnership between the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health(CAMH).

The book includes in-depth chapters on:

• the interconnection of trauma, mental health and substance use problems for women
• pregnancy, mothering and substance use
• innovative treatment, harm reduction and prevention programs designed with women's needs in mind
• challenges and opportunities for improved research, treatment and policy development.

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In Alphabetical Order

Armstrong, P., Amaratunga, C., Bernier, J., Grant, K., Pederson, A. & K. Willson (eds.). (2001). Exposing Privatization: Women and
Health Care Reform in Canada. Toronto: Garamond.

Grant, K., Armstrong, P., Amaratunga, C., Boscoe, M., Clow, B., Jackson, B., Pederson, A. & K. Willson. (eds.) (2004). Caring For/Caring About: Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving. Toronto: Garamond.

Greaves L. “Smoke Screen: The Cultural Meaning of Women’s Smoking.” In: Alexander A, Roberts M (editors) High culture: Reflections on addiction and modernity. State University of New York Press (SUNY). 2002.

Kirby, S., Greaves, L, and Reid, C. Experience, Research, Social Change: Methods into the Mainstream. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2006.

Kirby S, Greaves L, Hankivsky O. Women Under the Dome of Silence: Sexual Harassment and Abuse of Female Athletes. Canadian Woman Studies, An Introductory Reader; Revised 2nd Edition. Inanna Publications. 2006.

O’Neill, M., Pederson, A., Dupéré, S., Rootman, I. (Eds). (forthcoming). Health promotion in Canada: Critical perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Pederson, A. (forthcoming). Twelve Canadian portraits: health promotion in the provinces and territories, 1994 – 2006. In M. O’Neill, A. Pederson, S. Dupéré & I. Rootman (eds.), Health Promotion in Canada: Critical Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press.

Pederson, A., & Raphael, D. (2006). Gender, Race and Health Inequalities. In D. Raphael, T. Bryant & M. Rioux (eds.), Staying alive: critical perspectives on health, illness, and health care. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.

Pederson, A., Rootman, I., & M. O’Neill. (2005). “Health promotion in Canada: Back to the past or towards a promising future?” In A. Scriven and S. Garman (eds.), Promoting Health: Global Perspectives(pp. 255-265). Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Poole, N. and L Greaves (eds). (forthcoming) Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use. Toronto: Centre for Addictions and Mental Health.

Poole, N., Greaves, L., Jategaonkar, J., McCullough, L., Chabot, C. (forthcoming 2007) Influencing Women’s Substance Use: The Role of Transition Houses. In: Poole, N., Greaves, L (editors) Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Poole, N., Greaves, L. (forthcoming 2007) Pregnancy, Mothering and Substance Use: Towards a Balanced Response. In: Poole, N., Greaves, L (editors) Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Reid, Colleen.(2004) The Wounds of Exclusion:Poverty, Women’s Health and Social Justice. Edmonton, AB: Qualitative Institute Press.

Salmon, A. (in press) Beyond Shame and Blame: Aboriginal Mothers, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, and Barriers to Care. In Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use, N. Poole&
L. Greaves, (eds). Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

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