Care for the 'Racially Careless': Indian Hospitals in the Canadian West, 1920-1950s
Care for the 'Racially Careless': Indian Hospitals in the Canadian West, 1920-1950s
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DOI：
10.3138/chr.91.3.407
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发表时间：
2010-09-01
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0.2
通讯作者：
Lux, Maureen K.
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作者：
Lux, Maureen K.
在193年，疗养院院长和医疗官员警告说，“印第安结核病”对加拿大社会构成威胁。长期以来，政府的政策旨在将土著人隔离在保留地和寄宿学校，而他们获得医疗服务的机会则受到政府吝啬和社区偏见的限制。土著人的身体被认为是对自己健康的“种族粗心”，被视为对邻居的威胁和对国家的危险。到了20世纪40年代，实行种族隔离的国营印第安人医院将那些在省级疗养院或现代化社区医院不受欢迎的土著人送进了医院。1946年在埃德蒙顿开设的查尔斯·坎塞尔印第安人医院是新成立的国家卫生和福利部的首批行动之一，它公开表明了该州致力于通过隔离土著人并使其制度化来界定和促进“国家卫生”。
In the 193 os, sanatorium directors and medical bureaucrats warned of the threat to Canadian society of 'Indian tuberculosis.' Long-standing government policy aimed to isolate Aboriginal people on reserves and in residential schools, while their access to medical care was limited by government parsimony and community prejudice. Characterized as 'racially careless' concerning their own health, Aboriginal bodies were seen as a menace to their neighbours and a danger to the nation. By the 1940s state-run racially segregated Indian hospitals institutionalized Aboriginal people who were not welcome in provincial sanatoria or in the modernizing community hospitals. The opening of the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton in 1946, one of the first acts of the newly created department of National Health and Welfare, was a very public demonstration of the state's commitment to define and promote 'national health' by isolating and institutionalizing Aboriginal people.