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Separate beds : a history of Indian hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s / Maureen K. Lux.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442613867 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Discrimination in medical care > Canada > History > 20th century. Indigenous peoples > Hospitals > Canada > History > 20th century. Indigenous peoples > Hospital care > Canada > History > 20th century. Medical policy > Canada > History > 20th century. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at College of the Rockies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook Campus | RA 450.4 .I53 2016 (Text) | 31111000136398 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
