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Takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present).

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"Stevenson explores how care in Inuit communities is like a raven, a spiritual force that binds the living and the dead in ways that are not always straightforward or obvious." -- G. Bruyere CHOICE "This courageous humanistic work is well worth a close and critical read, for the simple reason that its author, Lisa Stevenson, addresses one of the most important contemporary healthcare issues in the Canadian North-that of suicide- and along the way challenges the reader through been termed welfare colonialism and continues to struggle with a bureaucratic legacy determined by historical state structure and policy." American Anthropologist

Table of Contents
Prologue: Between Two Women Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Facts and Images 2. Cooperating 3. Anonymous Care 4. Life-of-the-Name 5. Why Two Clocks? 6. Song Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam Notes References List of Illustrations Index

Life Beside Itself

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    A Paperback / softback by Lisa Stevenson

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 22 August 2014
      ISBN-13 9780520282940
      978-0520282940
      ISBN-10 0520282949
      Also in:
      Medical sociology Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present).

      Trade Review
      "Stevenson explores how care in Inuit communities is like a raven, a spiritual force that binds the living and the dead in ways that are not always straightforward or obvious." -- G. Bruyere CHOICE "This courageous humanistic work is well worth a close and critical read, for the simple reason that its author, Lisa Stevenson, addresses one of the most important contemporary healthcare issues in the Canadian North-that of suicide- and along the way challenges the reader through been termed welfare colonialism and continues to struggle with a bureaucratic legacy determined by historical state structure and policy." American Anthropologist

      Table of Contents
      Prologue: Between Two Women Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Facts and Images 2. Cooperating 3. Anonymous Care 4. Life-of-the-Name 5. Why Two Clocks? 6. Song Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam Notes References List of Illustrations Index

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