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Separate beds : a history of Indian hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s  Cover Image Book Book

Separate beds : a history of Indian hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781442613867 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
    print
  • Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]

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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.
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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  • 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Burns Lake Public Library 362.1089 Lux (Text) 35198000604083 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Fort St. James Public Library 362.108 LUX (Text) 35196000232285 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
Prince Rupert Library 362.1089 Lux (Text) 33294002143709 Adult Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

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