Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic /

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"In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stevenson, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Inuit > Medical care > Canada > History.
Tuberculosis > Canada > History.
Inuit > Health and hygiene > Canada > History.
Tuberculosis > history
Inuits > Soins médicaux > Canada > Histoire.
Tuberculose > Canada > Histoire.
Inuits > Santé et hygiène > Canada > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Inuit > Health and hygiene.
Tuberculosis.
Canada
Canada.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Life Beside Itself; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Between Two Women; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Facts and Images; 2. Cooperating; 3. Anonymous Care; 4. Life-of-the-Name; 5. Why Two Clocks?; 6. Song; Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam; Notes; References; List of Illustrations; Index.

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