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Don’t Lose Sight: Vanity, incompetence, and my ill-fated left eye by Genevieve A. Chornenki

October 10, 2021 by Alison Manley

When Genevieve Chornenki escapes a brush with blindness, things never looked better-city pigeons, people, stainless steel pots. But questions about her experience linger: Who was responsible for her close call? Can she safeguard other people's eyesight? How do our eyes work, anyway, and why do they give so much pleasure?

A Womb in the Shape of a Heart: My story of Miscarriage and Motherhood by Joanne Gallant

August 7, 2021 by James M. Fisher

A Womb in the Shape of a Heart is the intimate story of Gallant's journey through miscarriage and motherhood, holding space for the complicated paradoxes of grief and gratitude, of life and death, and the impenetrable depths of a mother's love.

Lyme Disease in Canada by Brian Owens

August 4, 2021 by James M. Fisher

Author Brian Owens looks at the conflicts that exist in recognizing, diagnosing and treating Lyme disease, and the failed human vaccine.

The Borders of Normal by Manuel Matas, M.D.

May 23, 2021November 11, 2020 by Bill Arnott

As an experienced psychiatrist, Dr. Manuel Matas is very familiar with the science of the human brain—as well as the possibilities that exist beyond the known borders of consciousness. He has never been a classic rationalist, as he himself has experienced phenomena that defy logic and the explanations of Western medicine.

Transplanted by Allison Watson

April 21, 2019 by James M. Fisher

In Transplanted, author Allison Watson describes her life with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and her lung's long, slow decline to the point where only a double-lung transplant can save her life. As of this book, she is four years post-transplant and is doing well.

About Face: Essays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addictions in Canada Edited by Douglas Gosse

September 3, 2019February 24, 2019 by James M. Fisher

About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada.