Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care (Gary Geddes)
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Medicine Unbundled: A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care | |
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| Author | Gary Geddes |
| Publisher | Heritage House |
| First published | 2017 |
| Type | Book |
| https://annas-archive.org/md5/8a8bd4666fbd322ba3e6b37527c04c14 | |
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Gary Geddes embarks on a long and difficult journey across Canada to interview Indigenous elders willing to share their experiences of segregated health care, including their treatment in the "Indian hospitals" that existed from coast to coast for over half a century.
The memories recounted by these survivors from gratuitous drug and surgical experiments to electroshock treatments intended to destroy the memory of sexual abuse are truly harrowing, and will surely shatter any lingering illusions about the virtues or good intentions of our colonial past. Yet, this is more than just the painful history of a once-so-called vanishing people (a people who have resisted vanishing despite the best efforts of those in charge); it is a testament to survival, perseverance, and the power of memory to keep history alive and promote the idea of a more open and just future.