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Colonizing bodies : aboriginal health and healing in British Columbia, 1900-50 / Mary-Ellen Kelm.

Kelm, Mary-Ellen, 1964- (Author).

Summary:

"Mary-Ellen Kelm's Colonizing Bodies which examines the impact of colonization on Aboriginal health in British Columbia during the first half of the twentieth century. Using postmodern and postcolonial conceptions of the body and the power relations of colonization, Kelm shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved. She begins by exploring the ways in which Aboriginal bodies were materially affected by Canadian Indian policy, which placed restrictions on fishing and hunting, allocated inadequate reserves, forced children into unhealthy residential schools, and criminalized indigenous healing. She goes on to consider how humanitarianism and colonial medicine were used to pathologize Aboriginal bodies and institute a regime of doctors, hospitals, and field matrons, all working to encourage assimilation. Finally, Kelm reveals how Aboriginal people were able to resist and alter these forces in order to preserve their own cultural understanding of their bodies, disease, and medicine." "Kelm's cross-disciplinary approach results in an important and accessible book that will be of interest not only to academic historians and medical anthropologists but also to those concerned with Aboriginal health and healing today."--Jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 077480677X
  • ISBN: 9780774806770
  • ISBN: 0774806788
  • ISBN: 9780774806787
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, ©1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The impact of colonization on Aboriginal health in British Columbia: overview -- 'My people are sick. My young men are angry': the impact of colonization on Aboriginal diet and nutrition -- 'Running out of spaces': sanitation and environment in Aboriginal habitations -- A 'scandalous procession': residential schooling and the reformation of Aboriginal bodies -- Aboriginal conceptions of the body, disease, and medicine -- Acts of humanity: Indian Health Services -- Doctors, hospitals, and field matrons: on the ground with Indian Health Services -- Medical pluralism in Aboriginal communities.

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Subject:
Indians of North America > Colonization > British Columbia.
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > British Columbia.
Indians of North America > Medical care > British Columbia.
Social medicine > British Columbia > History > 20th century.
Health Status.
Indians, North American.
American Native Continental Ancestry Group.
Health Services, Indigenous > history.
History, 20th Century.
British Columbia.
Native peoples > British Columbia > Health and hygiene.
Native peoples > British Columbia > Medical care.
Native peoples > British Columbia > Colonization.
Indians of North America > Colonization.
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene.
Indians of North America > Medical care.
Social medicine.
British Columbia.
Genre:
History.

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