Deborah A Johnston

Deborah Johnston was not born under the best of circumstances; in fact, her mother gave her away when she was just three years old. That was the first of many hard knocks to Deborah's heart, which she openly shares in her autobiographical book. After a tormenting revelation about her marriage result...

Magazine articles and self-improvement books tell us that our food choices serve as bold statements about who we are as individuals. Acquired Tastes reveals that they say more about where we come from and who we would like to be. Interviews with Canadian families in both rural and urban settings rev...

Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology shaping our world today. It dictates the policies of governments, and shapes the actions of key institutions such as the WTO, IMF, World Bank and European Central Bank. Its political and economic implications can hardly be overstated. Yet there are obvious prob...

Mathew Michael awakens on Monday morning to find himself transformed into a sloth, and as his day progress, he becomes other animals--a bear, a ferocious lion, a Tyrannosaurus rex--until he his transformed back into Mathew Michael at bedtime.

Biomedical revolutions seem to have radically altered the environment for HIV transmission: anti-retrovirals (ARVs) and drugs to reduce mother-to-child transmission promise to cut HIV transmission rates, as does male medical circumcision. However, the hopeful messages of UNAIDS are tempered with war...