Taking Medicine: Women's Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930 (Women and Indigenous Studies) Hardcover - 2010
by Burnett, Kristin
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- Title Taking Medicine: Women's Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930 (Women and Indigenous Studies)
- Author Burnett, Kristin
- Binding Hardcover
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of British Columbia Press
- Date 2010-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 077481828X.G
- ISBN 9780774818285 / 077481828X
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Aboriginal/Native Studies
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.108
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From the jacket flap
Hunters, medicine men, and missionaries continue to dominate images and narratives of the West, even though historians have recognized women's role as colonizer and colonized since the 1980s. Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by presenting colonial medicine as a gendered phenomenon. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women in the Treaty 7 region served as healers and caregivers - to their own people and to settler society - until the advent of settler-run hospitals and nursing stations. By revealing Aboriginal and settler women's contributions to health care, Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine in the contact zone.
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2011, Page 318