An error in judgement : the politics of medical care in an Indian/white community

Type

Book

Authors

Dara Culhane ( Culhane, Dara )

ISBN 10

0889222460

ISBN 13

9780889222465

Tags

Kwakiutl -- Medical care -- Case studies, Kwakiutl -- Medical care -- Government policy -- Case studies, Indigenous peoples -- Medical care -- British Columbia -- Alert Bay -- Case studies, British Columbia -- Alert Bay, British Columbia, Kwakiutl

Abstract

"ON JANUARY 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, provincial and federal ministries of health and national media, because their private tragedy held implications that reached far beyond one child, one physician, one town and even one century."--Amazon.

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