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Book SynopsisNow in its second edition, this collection explores how multiple health determinants, such as colonialism, gender, culture, early childhood development, the environment, geography, HIV/AIDS, medicine, and policy, impact the health status of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Grounded in expert voices of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis writers from coast to coast, this updated edition includes a chapter on environment and land defense; a foreword written by Dr. Evan Adams, Chief Medical Officer of the First Nations Health Authority; chapters by Liz Howard and Helen Knott, Indigenous poets; and an updated arrangement that reflects the significant social and political events that dominated headlines over the last two years, such as the protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, the US national election of 2016, the Indigenous youth suicide epidemic, and the enquiry into murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada. This revolutionary book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in courses on health, public and population health, community health sciences, medicine, nursing, and social work.
Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: ""
Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health in Canada is a remarkable text, beautifully woven from authentic stories with current academic knowledge and impeccable wisdom."" - Trudy Pauluth-Penner, University of Victoria
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Dr. Evan Adams
- Introduction to the Second Edition: Rethinking (Once Again) Determinants of Indigenous Peoples’ Health
- Sarah de Leeuw, Nicole Marie Lindsay, and Margo Greenwood
- PART 1 SETTING THE CONTEXT: BEYOND THE SOCIAL
- Chapter 1 Structural Determinants of Aboriginal Peoples’ Health
- Charlotte Reading
- Chapter 2 Knausgaard, Nova Scotia
- Liz Howard
- Chapter 3 Embodying Self-Determination: Beyond the Gender Binary
- Sarah Hunt
- Chapter 4 Reflections of One Indian Doctor in a Town Up North
- Nadine Caron
- Chapter 5 Two-Eyed Seeing in Medicine
- Murdena Marshall, Albert Marshall, and Cheryl Bartlett
- Chapter 6 The Spiritual Dimension of Holistic Health: A Reflection
- Marlene Brant Castellano
- PART 2 HONOURING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HEALTH
- Chapter 7 atikowisi miýw-a¯ya¯win, Ascribed Health and Wellness, to kaskitamasowin miýw-a¯ya¯win, Achieved Health and Wellness: Shifting the Paradigm
- Madeleine Dion Stout
- Chapter 8 Raven Healing
- Roberta Kennedy (Kung Jaadee)
- Chapter 9 miyo-pimâtisiwin, “A Good Path”: Indigenous Knowledges, Languages, and Traditions in Education and Health
- Diana Steinhauer and James Lamouche
- Chapter 10 Inuit Knowledge Systems, Elders, and Determinants of Health: Harmony, Balance, and the Role of Holistic Thinking
- Shirley Tagalik
- Chapter 11 Two Poems
- Marilyn Iwama
- PART 3 WELLNESS IS KNOWING WHO WE ARE: CULTURE AND IDENTITY
- Chapter 12 Being at the Interface: Early Childhood as a Determinant of Health
- Margo Greenwood and Elizabeth Jones
- Chapter 13 Knowing Who You Are: Family History and Aboriginal Determinants of Health
- Brenda Macdougall
- Chapter 14 Cultural Wounds Demand Cultural Medicines
- Michael J. Chandler and William L. Dunlop
- Chapter 15 Grandma and Grandpa and the Mysterious Case of Wolf Teeth in the House!
- Richard Van Camp
- PART 4 HEALTH OF THE LAND, HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE
- Chapter 16 The Relatedness of People, Land, and Health: Stories from Anishinabe Elders
- Chantelle Richmond
- Chapter 17 Activating Place: Geography as a Determinant of Indigenous Peoples’ Health and Well-Being
- Sarah de Leeuw
- Chapter 18 Violence on the Land, Violence on Our Bodies
- Women’s Earth Alliance and Native Youth Sexual Health Network
- Chapter 19 Take Care of the Land and the Land Will Take Care of You: Resources, Development, and Health
- Terry Teegee
- Chapter 20 Dishinit Sakeh
- Helen Knott
- PART 5 REVISIONING MEDICINE: TOWARD INDIGENIZATION
- Chapter 21 miyo-pimâtisiwin: Practising “the Good Way of Life” from the Hospital Bed to Mother Earth
- Patricia Makokis and James Makokis
- Chapter 22 Reshaping the Politics of Health: A Personal Perspective
- Warner Adam
- Chapter 23 Aboriginal Early Childhood Development Policies and Programs in British Columbia: Beyond the Rhetoric
- Karen Isaac and Kathleen Jamieson
- Chapter 24 Type 2 Diabetes in Indigenous Populations: Why a Focus on Genetic Susceptibility Is Not Enough
- Fernando Polanco and Laura Arbour
- Chapter 25 Determining Life with HIV and AIDS
- Sherri Pooyak, Marni Amirault, and Renée Masching
- Chapter 26 Medicine Is Relationship: Relationship Is Medicine
- Leah May Walker and Danièle Behn-Smith
- Contributors
- Index
