Maureen Lux: 2 books
Medicine that Walks
Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
In this seminal work, Maureen Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by European newcomers and that Aboriginal people therefore surrendered...
Separate Beds
A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Separate Beds is 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....