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Colonizing bodies : aboriginal health and healing in British Columbia, 1900-50 / Mary-Ellen Kelm.
Record details
- ISBN: 077480677X :
- Physical Description: xxiii, 248 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, c1998.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Illustrations, figures, and tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Health - 1. The impact of colonization on Aboriginal health in British Columbia: overview - 2. 'My people are sick. My young men are angry.': the impact of colonization on Aboriginal diet and nutrition - 3. 'Running out of spaces': sanitation and environment in Aboriginal habitations - 4. A 'scandalous procession': residential schooling and the reformation of Aboriginal bodies -- Part 2: Healing - 5. Aboriginal conceptions of the body, disease, and medicine - 6. Acts of humanity: Indian health services - 7. Doctors, hospitals, and field matrons: on the ground with Indian health services - 8. Medical pluralism in Aboriginal communities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- A note on sources-- Select bibliography -- Index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Terrace Public Library | 970.1 Kel (Text) | 35151000167403 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Book News : Book News Reviews
Kelm (history, U. of Northern British Columbia) offers an historical analysis of issues connected with the health of First Nations peoples in Canada, exploring conceptions of the body, the power relations of colonization, and the specifics of health policies and their impact on Aboriginal people. This background sheds light on some contemporary health policy controversies, including the transfer of funds and responsibility for health from the federal government to individual bands and tribal councils. Canadian card order no.: C98-910803-1. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. - Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 1999 May
In this pathbreaking book, Kelm bridges and brings together the disciplines of history, Native American studies, and health care. The author examines the history of health care among the indigenous people of British Columbia in the first half of the 20th century and applies a penetrating historical analysis to the contemporary problems that beset it. Kelm shows how the colonization process affected the bodies and health of indigenous people in the province through restrictions on fishing and hunting, through the reserve system, and through the residential school system. The same process was used to criminalize native healing traditions, replacing them with a system of government-controlled doctors and hospitals that "pathologized Aboriginal bodies." Finally, she shows how the province's indigenous people reacted to this process by adapting to and altering these forces of colonialism so as to preserve their own cultural understanding of their bodies, disease, and medicine. Based on the author's extensive multidisciplinary research, the book is illustrated with archival photographs and contains useful charts and tables. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above. Copyright 1999 American Library Association
