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Separate beds : a history of Indian hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s / Maureen K. Lux.

by Lux, Maureen K. (Maureen Katherine), 1956-

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University of Toronto Press, 2016.

362.108997 L977s

First Nations -- Hospital care -- History -- 20th century.

Discrimination in medical care -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

Medical policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

First Nations, Treatment of -- Canada -- History.

First Nations -- Hospitals -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

First Nations -- Hospital care -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

First Nations -- Health and hygiene -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

9781442613867 (hc.)

xii, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-265) and index.

Making Indian hospitals -- Neither law nor treaty -- Everyone in their place: labour in the Indian hospitals -- Life and death in an Indian hospital -- Getting out of the hospital business -- "The government's eyes were opened": the treaty right to health care.

Separate Beds is the 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. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients. Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the 'Indian Hospitals', the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations. Separate Beds reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations.

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