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Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic /

In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson 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). Along the way, S...

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Main Author:	Stevenson, Lisa
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Inuit > Medical care > Canada > History. Tuberculosis > Canada > History. Inuit > Health and hygiene > Canada > History. Inuits > history. Health Status. Delivery of Health Care > history. Suicide > history. Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history. History, 20th Century. History, 21st Century. Canada.

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