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Author : George Jasper Wherrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598158314
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (583 download)
Download or read book The miracle of the empty beds written by George Jasper Wherrett and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Jasper Wherrett
Publisher : Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Miracle of the Empty Beds written by George Jasper Wherrett and published by Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maureen K. Lux
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442613866
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Separate Beds written by Maureen K. Lux and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada's system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the "Indian Hospitals" were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients. Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the "Indian Hospitals," the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations. A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, Separate Beds reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations that should never be forgotten.
Author : Charles G. Roland
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587751
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine written by Charles G. Roland and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a bibliography of secondary sources in Canadian medical history.
Author : J.R. Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690739
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Shingwauk's Vision written by J.R. Miller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1996-05-24 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in cultural genocide. In this first comprehensive history of these institutions, J.R. Miller explores the motives of all three agents in the story. He looks at the separate experiences and agendas of the government officials who authorized the schools, the missionaries who taught in them, and the students who attended them. Starting with the foundations of residential schooling in seventeenth-century New France, Miller traces the modern version of the institution that was created in the 1880s, and, finally, describes the phasing-out of the schools in the 1960s. He looks at instruction, work and recreation, care and abuse, and the growing resistance to the system on the part of students and their families. Based on extensive interviews as well as archival research, Miller's history is particularly rich in Native accounts of the school system. This book is an absolute first in its comprehensive treatment of this subject. J.R. Miller has written a new chapter in the history of relations between indigenous and immigrant peoples in Canada. Co-winner of the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction. Winner of the 1996 John Wesley Dafoe Foundation competition for Distinguished Writing by Canadians Named an 'Outstanding Book on the subject of human rights in North America' by the Gustavus Myer Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
Author : Laurie Meijer Drees
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 0888646925
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Healing Histories written by Laurie Meijer Drees and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of tubercular hospitals and Canada’s indigenous population, built around “poignant and at times heartbreaking” firsthand accounts (Choice). Featuring oral accounts from patients, families, and workers who experienced Canada’s Indian Hospital system, Healing Histories 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, 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, is essential reading for those interested in Canadian Aboriginal history, the history of medicine and nursing, and oral history.
Author : Pat Sandiford Grygier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773564853
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Long Way from Home written by Pat Sandiford Grygier and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994-10-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recollections of patients, interviews with participants in the government programs, available literature and statistics, and records of the Northern Affairs Program, Grygier examines the programs for the Inuit in all parts of Canada. She also explores the history of tuberculosis in Canada, conditions of life in the North for both Inuit and non-Natives, and the development and modification of government administration of the North. This important study will be of interest to those in Native and northern studies, Canadian social and political history, and the history of medicine in Canada.
Author : Katherine McCuaig
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773567712
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret written by Katherine McCuaig and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999-09-17 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Weariness, the Fever, and the Fret Katherine McCuaig takes an in-depth look at the campaign against TB, from its beginnings as part of the turn-of-the-century urban social reform movement to the 1950s and the discovery of antibiotics that could cure it. Although the bacillus that causes it had been discovered in 1882, at the turn of the century TB was, as Osler observed, "a social disease with a medical aspect." With "fresh air, good food, good houses, and hope" as the only available treatment, fighting the disease meant not only eliminating the germ but attacking the underlying social problems that predisposed an individual to disease - alcoholism and poor living and working conditions. By the end of World War I the bacteriological approach had become dominant, with federally expanded sanatoria, increasing provincial involvement and responsibility, and more sophisticated technology to diagnose and treat the disease. The campaign against TB not only influenced the way in which health services were established and the division of responsibility among various levels of government and volunteers but profoundly affected attitudes toward the political and economic development of Canadian health care and the ultimate demand for medicare. Drawing on sources ranging from government reports and archival material to more general North American social and political historical research, McCuaig demonstrates how TB was viewed and how it was controlled, which owed as much to changing attitudes in society as to bacteriological discoveries.
Author : David S. Barnes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520915178
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Making of a Social Disease written by David S. Barnes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease—ranging from the early romantic image of a consumptive woman to the later view of a scourge spread by the poor—owed more to the power structures of nineteenth-century society than to medical science. By 1900, the war against tuberculosis had become a war against the dirty habits of the working class. Lucid and original, Barnes's study broadens our understanding of how and why societies assign moral meanings to deadly diseases.
Author : Ken Coates
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773562613
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Best Left as Indians written by Ken Coates and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991-10-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indigenous population, Coates stresses, has not been passive in the face of expansion by whites. He argues that Native people have played a major role in shaping the history of the region and determining the relationship with the immigrant population. They recognized the conflict between the material and technological advantages of an imposed economic order and the desire to maintain a harvesting existence. While they readily accepted technological innovations, they resisted the imposition of an industrial, urban environment. Contemporary land claims show their long-standing attachment to the land and demonstrate a continued, assertive response to non-Native intervention.
Author : Flurin Condrau
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773536000
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Tuberculosis Then and Now written by Flurin Condrau and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One-third of the world's population is currently infected with the TB bacillus and up to ten percent of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. Today the disease is most prevalent in Africa and South Asia, but a century and a half ago it was the largest single cause of death in Europe and North America. In Tuberculosis Then and Now leading scholars and new researchers in the field reflect on the changing medical, social, and cultural understanding of the disease and engage in a wider debate about the role of narrative in the social history of medicine and how it informs current debates and issues surrounding the treatment of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Through a case study of the history of tuberculosis and its treatment, this collection examines medicine and health care from the perspectives of class, race, and gender, providing a challenging and refreshing addition To The field of bacteria-centred accounts of the history of medicine. Contributors include Peter Atkins (University of Durham), David Barnes (University of Pennsylvania), Alison Bashford (Harvard and University of Sidney), Tim Boon (Science Museum, London), Linda Bryder (University of Auckland), Flurin Condrau (University of Manchester), Jorge Molero-Messa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Helen Valier (University of Houston), John Welshman (University of Lancaster), and Michael Worboys (University of Manchester).
Author : D.J. Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773597697
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book From Treaties to Reserves written by D.J. Hall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.J. Hall asserts that - as a result of profound cultural differences - each side interpreted the negotiations differently, leading to conflict and an acute sense of betrayal when neither group accomplished what the other had asked. Hall explores the original intentions behind the government's policies, illustrates their attempts at cooperation, and clarifies their actions. While the government believed that the Aboriginal peoples of what is now southern and central Alberta desired rapid change, the First Nations, in contrast, believed that the government was committed to supporting the preservation of their culture while they adapted to change. Government policies intended to motivate backfired, leading instead to poverty, starvation, and cultural restriction. Many policies were also culturally insensitive, revealing misconceptions of Aboriginal people as lazy and over-dependent on government rations. Yet the first two decades of reserve life still witnessed most First Nations people participating in reserve economies, many of the first generation of reserve-born children graduated from schools with some improved ability to cope with reserve life, and there was also more positive cooperation between government and First Nations people than is commonly acknowledged. The Indian treaties of the 1870s meant very different things to government officials and First Nations. Rethinking the interaction between the two groups, From Treaties to Reserves elucidates the complexities of this relationship.
Author : Charles Hayter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773528697
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Element of Hope written by Charles Hayter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national study of the history of cancer in Canada.
Author : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887555381
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)
Download or read book A Knock on the Door written by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015, the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and communities to share their experiences of residential schools and released several reports based on 7000 survivor statements and five million documents from government, churches, and schools, as well as a solid grounding in secondary sources. A Knock on the Door, published in collaboration with the National Research Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, gathers material from the several reports the TRC has produced to present the essential history and legacy of residential schools in a concise and accessible package that includes new materials to help inform and contextualize the journey to reconciliation that Canadians are now embarked upon. Survivor and former National Chief of the Assembly First Nations, Phil Fontaine, provides a Foreword, and an Afterword introduces the holdings and opportunities of the National Centre for Truth & Reconciliation, home to the archive of recordings, and documents collected by the TRC. As Aimée Craft writes in the Afterword, knowing the historical backdrop of residential schooling and its legacy is essential to the work of reconciliation. In the past, agents of the Canadian state knocked on the doors of Indigenous families to take the children to school. Now, the Survivors have shared their truths and knocked back. It is time for Canadians to open the door to mutual understanding, respect, and reconciliation.
Author : Richard A. Jarrell
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889207550
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology and Canadian History written by Richard A. Jarrell and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Conference on the Study of the History of Canadian Science and Technology, held in Kingston, Ontario in November 1978, marks the emergence of a new Canadian discipline. This wide-ranging, bilingual collection of papers and workshops includes contributions by some of the historians, scientists, educators, students, archivists, and government representatives present at the conference. The papers discuss the nature of the new field, its objectives, and the problems of resources, funding, publishing, and practical uses which face historians of Canadian science and technology. Records of the workshops convey the flavour of excitement present at the conference. Included in the volume are an extensive bibliography and listings of museums and available collections, research in progress, and conference participants.
Author : Helen Bynum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198727518
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Spitting Blood written by Helen Bynum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few diseases have been more inextricably linked with our past than tuberculosis. The ancient Greeks called it phthisis or consumption, names still familiar in the early twentieth century. They knew that coughing up or spitting of blood were bad signs. Through the Medieval Period to the modern day, Helen Bynum explores the history and development of TB throughout the world, touching on the various discoveries that have emerged about the disease, and focusing on the clinical and experimental approaches of Rene Laennec (1781-1826) and Robert Koch (1842-1910). Therapies included miraculous touching, bleeding, travel, vaccines, sanatoria, open-air therapy, and surgery, although none proved successful. A real cure finally arrived after World War II, with anti-tuberculosis drugs, characterizing a new optimism about science, health, and society. Although concerns about TB faded away in the mid-twentieth century, the disease has now returned with a vengeance. Bynum describes the emerging picture from the World Health Organization of the difficulties in managing new drug-resistant forms of the disease that have established themselves in the developing world, and in poorer parts of large cities worldwide. The story of tuberculosis, it seems, is far from over."--
Author : Ingeborg Marshall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773513906
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book History and Ethnography of the Beothuk written by Ingeborg Marshall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations with Inuit, Montagnais, and Micmac are also discussed.
