A long way from home the tuberculosis epidemic among the Inuit
Record details
- ISBN: 9780773564855 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0773564853 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0773512160
- ISBN: 9780773512160
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xxiv, 233 p.) : ill., maps, charts. - Publisher: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:august.17 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A brief history of tuberculosis in Canada -- The Inuit people and the Arctic -- Other players: the Hudson's Bay Company and the Missionaries -- Other players: the government and the RCMP -- Emergence of the problem -- The assault -- The Eastern Arctic patrol -- Life in the San -- After the hospital: going home, or a southern grave -- The 1960s: new measures in the Northwest Territories -- Distinct but similar: the epidemic in Quebec and Newfoundland -- The balance sheet: one person's point of view -- Arctic administration and principal events, 1870-1970 -- Interviews -- Hospitals to which Inuit were sent, 1940s to 1960s -- Nanr "Standard Eskimo discharge kit". |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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