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Auteur(s) : Lux, Maureen Katherine (1956-....)
Titre(s) : Separate beds [Texte imprimé] : a history of Indian hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s / Maureen K. Lux
Publication : Toronto : University of Toronto press, copyright 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-273 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 253-265. Index
"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."
Sujet(s) : Indiens d'Amérique -- Soins hospitaliers -- Canada -- 20e siècle
Discrimination dans les soins médicaux -- Canada -- 20e siècle
Politique sanitaire -- Canada -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
362.108 997071 (23e éd.) = Maladies physiques (problèmes et services sociaux) - Étude en relation avec les
peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Nord - Canada
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781442613867. - ISBN 1442613866 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46572332j
Notice n° :
FRBNF46572332
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Making Indian hospitals ; Neither law nor treaty ; Everyone in their place : labour
in the Indian hospitals ; Life and death in an Indian hospital ; Getting out of
the hospital business ; "The government's eyes were opened" : the treaty right to
health care ; Conclusion.