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Fighting for a hand to hold : confronting medical colonialism against indigenous children in Canada / Samir Shaheen-Hussain ; foreword by Cindy Blackstock ; afterword by Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel.

by Shaheen-Hussain, Samir, 1979-

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McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.

362.108997 S525f

Indigenous children -- Medical care -- Canada.

Indigenous peoples -- Medical care -- Canada.

First Nations children -- Medical care.

First Nations -- Medical care.

Racism in medicine -- Canada.

McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 97.

xxxi, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-314) and index.

"Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. Fighting for A Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes and medical violence inflicted specifically on Indigenous children. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system -- and in settler society at large. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements."--Publisher.

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