Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Volume 97 by Shaheen-Hussain, Samir
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Volume 97 by Shaheen-Hussain, Samir

Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Volume 97

Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating...
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Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Volume 97 by Shaheen-Hussain, Samir

Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Volume 97

$90.55
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Volume 97 by Shaheen-Hussain, Samir

Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada Volume 97

$90.55
Author: Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes and medical violence inflicted specifically on Indigenous children. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system - and in settler society at large. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, land reclamation, and self-determination for Indigenous peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada.

Author: Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 09/23/2020
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780228003601


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About the Author
Samir Shaheen-Hussain is assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and works as a pediatric emergency physician in Montreal (Tio'tia: ke).


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