Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

Healing Histories: Stories from Canada's Indian Hospitals

Healing Histories is the first detailed collection of Aboriginal 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 Aboriginal 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 Canadian Aboriginal history, history of medicine and nursing, and oral history.
Country USA
Brand University of Alberta Press, an Imprint of University of Alberta Press
Manufacturer University of Alberta Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780888646507
ReleaseDate 2012-11-15

Country	USA
Brand	University of Alberta Press, an Imprint of University of Alberta Press
Manufacturer	University of Alberta Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780888646507
ReleaseDate	2012-11-15

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