Search Results - BC Cancer Agency Library

The remedy : queer and trans voices on health and health care

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog121381

Sharman, Zena. [Vancouver, BC?]: Arsenal Pulp Press , 2016.

Audience: Patient or Public

Table of contents:; Introduction: Why Queer and Trans Health Stories Matter -- Appendix -- Call in Sick -- Name Game: Being Seen in My Entirety -- Unlearning: Improving Trans Care by Reorienting Medical and Nursing Discourse -- Navigating This Life as a Black Intersex Man -- Confessions of a Gender…

1 read online

Author: Sharman, Zena

Place of Publication: [Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publication Date: 2016

Series: EBSCOhost eBook

Subjects: Sexual and Gender Minorities; Transgender Persons; Minority Health; Health Services for Transgender Persons; Healthcare Disparities; Personal Narratives

Abstract: Table of contents:; Introduction: Why Queer and Trans Health Stories Matter -- Appendix -- Call in Sick -- Name Game: Being Seen in My Entirety -- Unlearning: Improving Trans Care by Reorienting Medical and Nursing Discourse -- Navigating This Life as a Black Intersex Man -- Confessions of a Gender Specialist -- Read This Before Your Next Clinical Visit: Cheap Advice for Frequent Patients -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Q Card Project (Seattle, Washington) -- Using Medical Education to Advance Health of LGBT Individuals -- Health as a Spiritual Practice: Or, Please Don?t Call Me ?Lady? -- Our Caregiving, Ourselves -- Queer in Common Country -- NIRKwUSCIN -- A Journey Towards Safety -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services LGBTQ+ Newcomer Initiatives (Toronto, Ontario) -- Sex Work Solidarity as Healing: in four parts -- The Disclosure of Specialization: A QPOC Therapist?s Questions about Embodied Mirroring and Mentoring -- Trans Grit -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Trans Buddy Program (Nashville, Tennessee) -- Rivers of Our Lives: Stigma and Dislocations as Part of Life Course -- Sick of it: One patient?s adventures in heteronormativity -- Remedial Asexuality: Sexualnormativity in Health Care -- Five Things Providers Need to Know about Bisexual People -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Affirmations Deck (Toronto, Ontario) -- Breaking Down Barriers: A Journey to Increase Collaboration and Understanding Between LGBT2-SQ and Medical Communities -- Baby Escape Plan Two -- Mind Your Words -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre (Vancouver, BC) -- We Don?t Have to Numb Out to Be Out -- Depathologizing Trans -- Through the Body -- Healing Exchanges: The Necessity of Beloved Community for Queer Survivors of Colour -- Not a Liability: On Trauma-Informed Care and Community Acupuncture -- Listen -- Waiting on Information from Doctors.

Notes: SOGIE 2SLGBTQIA Collection

ISBN: 9781551526584; 9781551526591

Language: English

Material Type: Ebook

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Internet

Website Notes: Patients and the public of BC and the Yukon can access this title by emailing library@bccancer.bc.ca to obtain a username and password from the Library.

Read Online

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1699045

Breaking boundaries : LGBTQ2 writers on coming out and into Canada

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog121413

Nanoose Bay, BC: Rebel Mountain Press , 2017.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WA300 B828 2017

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Editor: Shwydky, Lori

Place of Publication: Nanoose Bay, BC

Publisher: Rebel Mountain Press

Publication Date: 2017

Physical Description: 145 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Sexual and Gender Minorities; Personal Narratives; Canada; Popular Work

Notes: SOGIE 2SLGBTQIA Collection

ISBN: 9780994730275

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: WA300 B828 2017

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library

Available

Up Ghost River : a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124478

Metatawabin, Edmund, Shimo, Alexandra. [Toronto, ON]: Vintage Canada , 2015.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WZ80.5 M587u 2015

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: Metatawabin, Edmund; Shimo, Alexandra

Place of Publication: [Toronto, ON]

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Publication Date: 2015

Physical Description: xix, 316 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm

Subjects: Indigenous Canadians; Indigenous Canadians - history; First Nations; First Nations - residential schools; Political Activism; Canada; Popular Work; Personal Narratives

ISBN: 9780307399885

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: WZ80.5 M587u 2015

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library

Available

Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124523

McLeod, Darrel J. Sechelt, BC: Douglas & McIntyre , 2018.

Audience: Patient or Public

1 read online

Author: McLeod, Darrel J

Place of Publication: Sechelt, BC

Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre

Publication Date: 2018

Series: Proquest Ebook Central

Subjects: Cree Indians; First Nations; Indigenous Canadians; Personal Narratives

ISBN: 9781771622004; 9781771622011

Language: English

Material Type: Ebook

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Internet

Website Notes: This title is licensed for one user at a time on BC Cancer-network computers. If you are denied access while on a network computer, try again later.

Read Online

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bccancer-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5497697

Fourth world : an Indian reality

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124505

Manuel. George, Posluns, Michael, Coulthard, Glen Sean, Deloria, Vine, Manuel, Doreen. Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota Press , 2019.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WZ80 M294 2019

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

"Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indigenous political activism. George Manuel, a leader in the North American Indian movement a that time, with coauthor journalist Michael Posluns, presents a rich historical document that traces the struggle for Indigenous survi…

Author: Manuel. George; Posluns, Michael; Coulthard, Glen Sean; Deloria, Vine; Manuel, Doreen

Place of Publication: Minneapolis, MI

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Publication Date: 2019

Physical Description: xliv, 286 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Subjects: First Nations; Indigenous Peoples - legislation & jurisprudence; Political Activism; Popular Work; Personal Narratives

Abstract: "Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indigenous political activism. George Manuel, a leader in the North American Indian movement a that time, with coauthor journalist Michael Posluns, presents a rich historical document that traces the struggle for Indigenous survival as a nation, a culture, and a reality." --Back cover

ISBN: 9781517906061

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: WZ80 M294 2019

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library

Available

The care we dream of : liberatory & transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124550

Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press , 2021.

Audience: Patient or Public

1 read online

Editor: Sharman, Zena

Place of Publication: Vancouver, BC

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publication Date: 2021

Series: EBSCOhost eBook

Subjects: Sexual and Gender Minorities; Minority Health; Healthcare Disparities; Physician-Patient Relations; Personal Narratives

Notes: SOGIE 2SLGBTQIA Collection

ISBN: 9781551528618

Language: English

Material Type: Ebook

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Internet

Website Notes: Patients and the public of BC and the Yukon can access this title by emailing library@bccancer.bc.ca to obtain a username and password from the Library.

Read Online

https://web-p-ebscohost-com.bccancer.idm.oclc.org/pfi/detail/detail?vid=1&sid=0aa0e1c4-d9fa-4d07-bd1b-24459213a65e%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWNvb2tpZSxpcCxzc28sdXJsLHVpZCZzaXRlPXBmaS1saXZl#

Calling my spirit back

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124507

Alec, Elaine. [Victoria, BC]: Tellwell Talent , 2020.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WB885 A366 2020

Availability: 3 copies, 2 available

"These stories are teachings, prophecy and protocols shared throughout the years by elders, language speakers, medicine people and helpers. They have been the foundation to individual healing and learning self-love."--Back cover

Author: Alec, Elaine

Place of Publication: [Victoria, BC]

Publisher: Tellwell Talent

Publication Date: 2020

Physical Description: vi, 183 pages ; 22 cm

Subjects: First Nations; Indigenous Canadians; Spiritual Therapies; Self Care - methods; Child Abuse, Sexual - rehabilitation; Substance-related disorders - rehabilitation; Personal Narratives; Popular Work

Abstract: "These stories are teachings, prophecy and protocols shared throughout the years by elders, language speakers, medicine people and helpers. They have been the foundation to individual healing and learning self-love."--Back cover

ISBN: 9780228830696

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WB885 A366 2020

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Cancer Info Ctr			On Loan, due Tuesday, May 14, 2024
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available
c.2 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available

Kimiko does cancer : a graphic memoir

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124409

Tobimatsu, Kimiko, Geniza, Keet [ill.]. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press , 2020.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WP870 T629k 2020

Availability: 3 copies, 3 available

"A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman. At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast canc…

Author: Tobimatsu, Kimiko; Geniza, Keet [ill.]

Place of Publication: Vancouver, BC

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publication Date: 2020

Physical Description: 94 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Subjects: Breast Neoplasms; Young Adult; Sexual and Gender Minorities; Graphic Novels; Personal Narratives; Popular Work

Abstract: "A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman. At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer" -- Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781551528199

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr; Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WP870 T629k 2020

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Cancer Info Ctr			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available

Climb back from cancer : a survivor and caregiver's inspirational journey

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog16143

Hobson, Alan, Hobson, Cecilia. Canmore, AB: Climb Back, Inc. , 2004.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WH250 H684c 2004

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Author: Hobson, Alan; Hobson, Cecilia

Place of Publication: Canmore, AB

Publisher: Climb Back, Inc.

Publication Date: 2004

Physical Description: xxxii, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Leukemia; Patients; Caregivers; Adaptation, Psychological; Bone Marrow Transplantation; Survivors; Biography; Personal Narratives

ISBN: 0968526314

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WH250 H684c 2004

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr Missing			Available

Living with cancer : a resource to support First Nations people in BC on their cancer journey

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog125267

First Nations Health Authority, BC Cancer Agency. [West Vancouver, BC]: First Nations Health Authority , [2023?].

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ201 F527 2023

Availability: 8 copies, 8 available

1 read online

Corporate Author: First Nations Health Authority; BC Cancer Agency

Place of Publication: [West Vancouver, BC]

Publisher: First Nations Health Authority

Publication Date: [2023?]

Physical Description: 67 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Neoplasms - psychology; Neoplasms - therapy; Neoplasms - rehabilitation; Health Services, Indigenous; Patient Navigation; Self Care; Social Support; Culturally Competent Care; Medicine, Traditional; Personal Narratives; First Nations; Patient Education Handout

Notes: "This booklet is based on an earlier publication Living with Cancer--Everyone Deserves Support...The stories in this book were shared at Telling Our Stories Conference held in Prince George, BC in June 2016"

Language: English

Material Type: Book; Online

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr; Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr; Prince George Cancer Info Ctr; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr; Internet

Call Number: QZ201 F527 2023

Read Online

https://www.fnha.ca/Documents/FNHA-Living-with-Cancer-Booklet.pdf

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr			Available
c.2 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available
c.2 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available
c.3 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency ARHCC Cancer Info Ctr			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency PG Cancer Info Ctr			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Cancer Info Ctr			Available

The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124339

Merasty, Joseph Auguste, Carpenter, David. Regina, SK: University of Regina Press , 2022.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WZ80.5 M552e 2022

Availability: 3 copies, 3 available

Author: Merasty, Joseph Auguste; Carpenter, David

Place of Publication: Regina, SK

Publisher: University of Regina Press

Publication Date: 2022

Physical Description: xxix, 84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Series: Regina collection

Subjects: First Nations - residential schools; First Nations; Indigenous Canadians - history; Personal Narratives; Popular Work

ISBN: 9780889778825

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Victoria Cancer Info Ctr; Vancouver Library

Call Number: WZ80.5 M552e 2022

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available
c.2 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available

What do you do if you don't die : the Stephen Fletcher story

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog16587

McIntosh, Linda. Winnipeg, MB: Heartland Associates , 2008.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WZ100 M152 2008

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: McIntosh, Linda

Place of Publication: Winnipeg, MB

Publisher: Heartland Associates

Publication Date: 2008

Physical Description: 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Quadriplegia; Politics; Steven Fletcher; Canada; Biography; Personal Narratives

ISBN: 9781896150499

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: WZ100 M152 2008

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library

Available

In my own moccasins : a memoir of resilience

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124503

Knott, Helen. Regina, SK: University of Regina Press , 2019.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WZ80.5 K72i 2019

Availability: 2 copies, 1 available

"In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spirit…

Author: Knott, Helen

Place of Publication: Regina, SK

Publisher: University of Regina Press

Publication Date: 2019

Physical Description: xvi, 279 pages ; 19 cm

Series: Regina collection

Subjects: First Nations; Indigenous women; Indigenous Canadians; Personal Narratives; Popular Work

Abstract: "In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit. "-- Provided by publisher

ISBN: 9780889777316

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Victoria Cancer Info Ctr; Vancouver Library

Call Number: WZ80.5 K72i 2019

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr			On Loan, due Wednesday, December 20, 2023
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available

Namwayut : we are all one : a pathway to reconciliation

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124077

Joseph, Robert. [Vancouver, BC]: Page Two , 2022.

Audience: Professional

Call Number: E78.C2 J83n 2022

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Author: Joseph, Robert

Place of Publication: [Vancouver, BC]

Publisher: Page Two

Publication Date: 2022

Physical Description: 241 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Reconciliation; Hope; Adaptation, Psychological; Indigenous Canadians; First Nations; Personal Narratives

ISBN: 9781774580059

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Professional

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Library

Call Number: E78.C2 J83n 2022

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library			Available
c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Library			Available

Over my head : a doctor's own story of head injury from the inside looking out

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog16094

Osborn, Claudia L. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing , 1998.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WL354 O83 1998

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: Osborn, Claudia L

Place of Publication: Kansas City, MO

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Publication Date: 1998

Physical Description: xii, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Brain Injuries - rehabilitation; Personal Narratives; Biography

ISBN: 0836254198

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: WL354 O83 1998

Copies

c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library

Available

Life stages and Native women : memory, teachings, and story medicine

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog124465

Anderson, Kim. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press , 2011.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WB55 A545 2011

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Rediscovering the stories of the past serves as a healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. Anderson shares the teachings of elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe…

Author: Anderson, Kim

Place of Publication: Winnipeg, MB

Publisher: University of Manitoba Press

Publication Date: 2011

Physical Description: xix, 210 pages ; 23 cm

Series: Critical studies in Native history

Subjects: First Nations; Indigenous women; Indigenous Canadians; Medicine, Traditional; Women's Health; Family; Popular Work; Personal Narratives

Abstract: Rediscovering the stories of the past serves as a healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. Anderson shares the teachings of elders from the Canadian prairies and Ontario to illustrate how different life stages were experienced by Métis, Cree, and Anishinaabe girls and women during the mid-twentieth century. Anderson explains how this traditional knowledge can be applied toward rebuilding healthy Indigenous communities today.