Aboriginal health in Canada : historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

Aboriginal health in Canada : historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Waldram, James B. (James Burgess)
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2006.
Description:	xii, 367 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene -- Canada. Health Status -- Canada. Indians, North American -- history -- Canada. Delivery of Health Care -- history -- Canada. History, 19th Century -- Canada. History, 20th Century -- Canada. Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene. Canada.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6026580

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Other authors / contributors:	Herring, Ann, 1951- Young, T. Kue.
ISBN:	0802087922 (cloth) 0802085792 (paper)

Table of Contents:

1. An overview of the aboriginal peoples of Canada
2. Health and disease prior of European contact
3. Contact and disease
4. Aboriginal peoples and the health transition
5. Medical traditions in aboriginal cultures
6. Traders, whalers, missionaries, and medical aid
7. The emergence of government health services
8. The organization and utilization of contemporary health services
9. Aboriginal healing in the contemporary context
10. Self-determination and health care
11. Conclusion.