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Biomedical Ethics: A Canadian Focus takes an in-depth look at the critical questions and debates surrounding the issues of patient autonomy, confidentiality, morality, and genetic engineering, among others. The majority of biomedical ethics texts provide American information, standards, and values, which do not always accord with Canadian obligations and expectations. This text takes a Canadian look at biomedical ethics and provides, whenever possible, Canadian standards, Canadian cases, and articles from Canadian authors or authors working at Canadian facilities.

These varied essays explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a. "passing"), the subjectivity of black writers in the unblack Pacific northwest, the failure of urban renewal, black and Asian comedy as a counterweight to official multiculturalism, the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself.

Fiction writer Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada and offers up a slice of tree planting life, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems.

Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend, romantic lover, and devoted husband and father. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2010.

This new interdisciplinary reader is one of the only texts that explores men and masculinity issues within a distinctly Canadian context. Featuring sixteen original essays by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this fascinating volume analyzes the many ways in which men and masculine gender roles have been instructed and depicted within Canadian society.

Ranald Macdonald’s roots are in the forest of Ontario’s easternmost county and his character was forged in the small Presbyterian church near his home. When he leaves to test his idealism and faith in the rough world of the lumber business, he brings pride to the minister’s wife who was the model for his life.