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1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Origins of this Text; Pedagogical Gap; Suggestions by Students; Personal Experiences of Aboriginal Health Issues and Perspectives on Health and Wellness; Purpose of this Text; Nursing Students and Instructors; Acknowledgments; Guidelines for Faculty; Who Should use this Book; What this Book is About; How this Book is Organized; Chapter Organization; Narrative Structure; How to use this Book; Part I. Aboriginal Culture and Health; Chapter 1: Introduction: First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in Canada: Understanding the Issues; Multiculturalism |
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A Part of the Canadian Cultural MosaicA Founding Nation of Canada; Demographics of Canada's Native Population; First Nations; Inuit; Métis; Urban Aboriginals; Aboriginal Peoples in Canada; Ottawa Charter; Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the Romanow Report; Easing Demands on Resources; Critical Thinking Exercise-Thinking About Difference; References and Further Reading; Chapter 2: Western and Aboriginal Ways of Knowing; Aboriginal Ways of Knowing; Example; Other Ways of Knowing; Recognizing Individuality; Epistemology and Ontology; Being and Knowing in Time; Historical Epistemology |
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Traditional Aboriginal Epistemology Professional Flexibility; Biomedicine Versus Tradition; Nonmodern Epistemology; Epistemological Accommodation; Recognizing and Respecting Difference; Critical Thinking Exercise-How Modern are You?; References and Further Reading; Chapter 3: Cultural Competency, Cultural Sensitivity and Cultural Safety; Modern Health Care in the 21st Century; A Kinder, Gentler Health Care?; Three Models of Intercultural Care; Cultural Sensitivity; Cultural Competency; Cultural Safety; Professional Standards and Aboriginal Understanding |
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Epistemological Accommodation and Cultural Safety Critical Thinking Exercise-Sensitivity, Safety and Competence; References and Further Reading; Chapter 4: Historical Overview; Pre-Contact History; Aboriginal Farmers; Villages and Laws; Nomadic Hunters; Fishers of the Coast; The Inuit; Health and Welfare; Disease Before Contact; European Contact; Disease and Conquest; Disease Impacts; Some Imported Diseases; Map of the 1775-1782 Smallpox Epidemic; The Fur Trade; Trade Partnerships; Political Issues Around the Fur Trade Today; Settlement and Traditional Economies; Settlement and Colonization |
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Aboriginal Title in Canada Reserve System in Canada; Reserves in Eastern Canada; Reserves on the Prairies; Reserves in British Columbia; Reserves in the North; Indian Act, 1876; Official Ideology of Assimilation; Government Policy and the Indian Act; Assimilation and Resistance; Residential Schools; Residential Schools and Abuse; Testimonies of Abuse; Health and Welfare; Constitution Act of 1982; Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Devolution of the Health Care System; The Movement toward Autonomy; Problems in Health Coverage; Jordan's Principle; Aboriginal Health and Welfare Today |
| Notes |
Economic and Cultural Security |
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Written by one of the leading researchers in First Nations and Inuit Health, this is the only entry-level text to address the current state of knowledge in the field of Aboriginal health. The book places Aboriginal health in Canada within its historical and philosophical context as it addresses social and clinical approaches to major health issues facing this population. It discusses the distinctive features of Aboriginal health and healing as opposed to traditional Western medicine and why it should be studied as a discrete field. Using the thread of cultural safety throughout, the text intro |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Credits |
Produced by the publisher |
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Held by CAPER-BC, Langara College |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Indigenous peoples -- Health and hygiene -- Canada
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Indigenous peoples -- Medical care -- Canada
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Minorities.
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Minority Health -- Canada
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Ethnic Groups -- ethnology -- Canada
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Health Services, Indigenous -- Canada
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Minority Groups -- Canada
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Transcultural Nursing -- methods -- Canada
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Ethnic Groups -- ethnology
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Health Services, Indigenous
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Minority Groups
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Transcultural Nursing -- methods
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Minority Health
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minorities.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
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Minorities
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Indigenous peoples -- Health and hygiene
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Canada |
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013011533 |
| ISBN |
9780826117991 |
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0826117996 |
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082611797X |
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9780826117977 |
