"Being Alive Well": Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being.

"Being Alive Well": Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being. Naomi Adelson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. ix. 141 pp.     

Mal'occhiu. Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress

Mal'occhiu. Ambiguity, Evil Eye, and the Language of Distress. Sam Migliore. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.160 pp.     

Reflections on Relations between Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian State

The House of Difference: Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada. Eva Mackey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 199 pp.
The White Man's Gonna Getcha. Toby Morantz. Mont-real: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. 370 pp.
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia. Cole Harris. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002. 425 pp.     

Quaqtaq: Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community

Quaqtaq: Modernity and Identity in an Inuit Community. Louis-Jacques Dorais. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.132 pp.     

Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora.

Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora. 2nd edition. Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 261 pp.     

The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood

The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood. Lindsay DuBois. Toronto: Toronto Press, 2005. 283 pp.     

Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town

Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in. Yemeni Town. Anne Meneley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. 216 pp.     

Reenvisioning Boas and Boasian Anthropology

Franz Boas among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884: Journals and Letters. Ludger Miiller Wille. ed. Translated by William Barr. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 298 pp.
Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906. Douglas Cole. Vancouver: Douglas and Mclntyre, 1999. 360 pp.     

Colonial "Reformation" in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995

Colonial "Reformation" in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995. Albert Schrauwers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. 279 pp.     

The Health of Native Americans: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology and Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives

The Health of Native Americans: Towards a Biocultural Epidemiology. T. Kue Young. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 (cloth), ix + 275 pp.
Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives. James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, and T. Kue Young. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995 (cloth and paper), xii + 334 pp.     

Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices

Making It Their Own: Severn Ojibwe Communicative Practices. Lisa Philips Valentine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 252 pp.     

The Legacy of Shingwaukonse: A Century of Native Leadership

The Legacy of Shingwaukonse:. Century of Native Leadership. Janet E. Chute. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 1998. 359 pp.     

VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

"Pictures Bring Us Messages" Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation . Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers, with members of the Kainai Nation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 280 pp., 32 plates, and 13 figures.     

The significance of ethnicity in Canada

Raymond Breton, Wsevolod W. Isajiw, Warren E. Kalbach and Jeffrey G. Reitz, ETHNIC IDENTITY AND EQUALITY: VARIETIES OF EXPERIENCE IN A CANADIAN CITY, Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1990, 342 pp., ca. $16 Cdn.     

A student of ethnic Canada: Leo Driedger

Leo Driedger (ed.), ETHNIC CANADA: IDENTITIES AND INEQUALITIES, Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd., 1987, 442 pp., npl.

Leo Driedger, THE ETHNIC FACTOR: IDENTITY IN DIVERSITY, Toronto, London, etc.: McGraw‐Hill Ryerson Ltd., 1989, 450 pp., npl.

Shiva S. Halli, Frank Trovato and Leo Driedger (eds), ETHNIC DEMOGRAPHY: CANADIAN IMMIGRANT, RACIAL AND CULTURAL VARIATIONS, Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1990. 497 pp., npl.     

Trap-vaccinate-release and oral vaccination for rabies control in urban skunks, raccoons and foxes.

Two rabies control tactics, trap-vaccinate-release (T-V-R) and oral vaccination were used for the control of rabies in skunks (Mephitis mephitis), raccoons (Procyon lotor), and foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in metropolitan Toronto, Canada. Using T-V-R, a mean of 45% to 72% (95% confidence limits of 40% to 81%) of the skunks and a mean of 17% to 68% (95% confidence limits of 14% to 76%) of the raccoons in a 60 km2 area of Toronto were vaccinated against rabies between 1987 and 1991. The area has been free of skunk rabies from May 1989 to April 1992. Forty-five rabies cases were diagnosed during 1980 to 1986. In contrast, only three skunk cases have been reported since the vaccination program began in July 1987. The T-V-R area also remained rabies free during an epizootic of skunk rabies in metropolitan Toronto during 1991. Following distribution of rabies vaccine-baits throughout the ravines of metropolitan Toronto, June 1989 to December 1991, 46% to 80% of the Toronto fox population was immunized during 1989, 1990 and 1991. Only one case of fox rabies was reported in metropolitan Toronto since vaccination began, compared to 80 cases reported between 1982 and 1988. The area has been free of reported fox rabies from October 1990 to April 1992.     

Recent advances in basic neurosciences and brain disease: from synapses to behavior

Understanding basic neuronal mechanisms hold the hope for future treatment of brain disease. The 1st international conference on synapse, memory, drug addiction and pain was held in beautiful downtown Toronto, Canada on August 21–23, 2006. Unlike other traditional conferences, this new meeting focused on three major aims: (1) to promote new and cutting edge research in neuroscience; (2) to encourage international information exchange and scientific collaborations; and (3) to provide a platform for active scientists to discuss new findings. Up to 64 investigators presented their recent discoveries, from basic synaptic mechanisms to genes related to human brain disease. This meeting was in part sponsored by Molecular Pain, together with University of Toronto (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology as well as Center for the Study of Pain). Our goal for this meeting is to promote future active scientific collaborations and improve human health through fundamental basic neuroscience researches. The second international meeting on Neurons and Brain Disease will be held in Toronto (August 29–31, 2007).     

Polio vaccine: the first 50 years and beyond. Summary of the meeting and next steps.

A conference on "Polio vaccine: the first 50 years and beyond" was held in Toronto, Canada, June 2005. The purpose of the conference was to bring together regulators, manufacturers, academics and public health authorities to celebrate the accomplishments of the past 50 years, to consider the challenges of achieving and sustaining polio eradication and to review standardization and regulatory issues around existing and new polio vaccines. In the final session of the conference the following summary of the meeting was presented.     

Seroprevalence of and risk factors for HIV-1 infection in injection drug users in Montreal and Toronto: a collaborative study.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of antibodies to HIV-1 and risk factors for HIV-1 infection among injection drug users. DESIGN: Questionnaire survey. A venous blood sample was taken for HIV-1 antibody testing. SETTING: Montreal and Toronto. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 810 subjects who had used injection drugs in the previous 6 months recruited mainly from treatment centres and from the street in Montreal (425 subjects) and from treatment centres in Toronto (385 subjects) between September 1988 and September 1990. The overall participation rate was 82%. OUTCOME MEASURES: HIV-1 seropositivity, sociodemographic and behavioural risk factors for HIV-1 infection. RESULTS: The overall seroprevalence rate of HIV-1 infection was 4.8% (95% confidence limits [CL] 3.5 and 6.5). In Montreal the rate was 8.2% (95% CL 6.0 and 11.2), and in Toronto 1.0% (95% CL 0.4 and 2.6) (p < 0.001). Seropositive subjects were significantly older (p = 0.041) and were more likely to have a history of imprisonment (p = 0.006) than seronegative subjects. In univariate analysis seropositivity was associated with the following behaviours: more frequent cocaine use (p < 0.001), injecting drugs in "shooting galleries" (p = 0.002), sharing equipment with a person known to be HIV-1 seropositive (p = 0.006), "booting" fresh blood (p = 0.004), homosexual or bisexual orientation (p = 0.006), engaging in prostitution (p < 0.001) and, for men, number of male sexual partners in the previous 6 months (p = 0.007). In multivariate analysis the determinants of HIV-1 seropositivity were Montreal as the city of recruitment (odds ratio [OR] 6.7, 95% CL 2.32 and 19.42), engaging in prostitution (OR 2.13, 95% CL 1.01 and 4.75), a history of imprisonment (OR 3.51, 95% CL 1.33 and 9.29) and sharing equipment with a person known to be HIV-1 seropositive (OR 4.43, 95% CL 1.43 and 13.74). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings show that HIV-1 is circulating among injection drug users in Montreal and Toronto and that both drug use and sexual behaviours are implicated in the transmission of infection in the populations studied. Adapted preventive programs should be developed to prevent further spread of HIV-1 infection in this population.