Healing Histories

Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

AvLaurie Meijer Drees

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Healing Histories is the first detailed collection of Indigenous perspectives on the history of tuberculosis in Canada's Indigenous communities and on the federal government's Indian Health Services. Featuring oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada's Indian Hospital system, it presents a fresh perspective on health care history that includes the diverse voices and insights of the many people affected by tuberculosis and its treatment in the mid-twentieth century. This intercultural history models new methodologies and ethics for researching and writing about Indigenous Canada based on Indigenous understandings of story and its critical role in Indigenous historicity, while moving beyond routine colonial interpretations of victimization, oppression, and cultural destruction. Written for both academic and popular reading audiences, Healing Histories is essential reading for those interested in Indigenous history in Canada, history of medicine and nursing, and oral histories.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-01-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:428 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:University of Alberta Press
ISBN:9780888646507

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Laurie Meijer Drees is Co-Chair of the First Nations Studies Department at Vancouver Island University. She lives in Ladysmith, British Columbia.

Recensioner i media

"Drees's balanced research provides evidence that good and caring work was done by some staff in these hospitals, despite much of it having been premised on assumptions of inferiority and a complete lack of respect for aboriginal culture.. According to Drees, 'the legacy of the authoritarian approaches' can no longer be ignored.. A lot of research remains to be done. Not only on abuses, but on our attitudes to First Nations and their problems." Gary Geddes, The Victoria Times Colonist, February 24, 2013 [Full article at http://bit.ly/V2F3UR]