Research Catalog

Title

Health care issues in the Canadian north / David E. Young, editor.

Publication

Edmonton : Boreal Institute for Northern Studies, 1988.

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Additional Authors

• Young, David E. (David Earl)
• Boreal Institute for Northern Studies

Description

150 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

Collection of papers resulting from a workshop at the Knowing the North Conference which explore the rapidly-changing status of alternative medicine in Canada, new development in the evolving relationship between alternative medicine and the orthodox medical establishment, and changes occurring in health care delivery strategies in the North. Special attention is paid to the practice and efficacy of Native Indian medicine.

Series Statement

Occasional publication, 0068-0303 ; no. 26

Uniform Title

Occasional publication (Boreal Institute for Northern Studies) no. 26

Subject

• Indians, North American
• Delivery of Health Care
• Medicine, Traditional
• Indians of North America > Medical care > Canada
• Indians of North America > Medicine > Canada
• Medical care > Canada, Northern
• Patient Care
• Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Orthodox vs alternative medicine: an evolving relationship -- To wear the white coat: options for traditional healers in a Canadian medical future / McCormick, James S. -- The case for alternative medicine / Rogers, Robert Dale -- Modern drugs from plants / Ayer, William A. -- Problems involved in treating native patients in a western health care clinic / Hanson, Alice -- Referrals to traditional healers: the role of medical interpreters / O'Neil, John -- An exploration of the contact between nurses and Indian elders/traditional healers on Indian reserves and health centres in Manitoba / Gregory, David -- Traditional versus non-traditional medicine: must one die for the other to exist? / Mala, Theodore -- The reformation in health care is under way! / Elliott, Hester -- Part II. Etic vs emic approaches to conceptualizing illness -- Hidden premises in health care planning: distortion by inappropriate nosology / Wilbush, Joel -- The response to chronic disease: changing models of illness in an Ojibwa community / Garro, Linda G. -- Part III. The psoriasis research project: exploring the efficacy of native healing practices / Young, David E. et al -- Documenting the practice of a traditional healer: methodological problems and issues / Morse, Janice et al / Placebo effects associated with Sweatlodge therapy / Wilbush, Joel -- Healing properties of the Sweatlodge Ceremony / Swartz, Lise -- Part IV. Bringing about change to health care in the north -- Northern medicine in transition / Gibson, Nancy -- Health issues in northern Canada / Sarsfield, Peter -- Health care providers: the solution or the problem? / Roberts, Elizabeth -- Legal impediments to traditional Indian medicine / Robb, James C. -- The feasibility of developing an integrated health care delivery system in the north: the case of northwestern Ontario / Weller, Geoffrey R.

ISBN

091905871X

LCCN

cn^91006167^

OCLC

• 23647421
• SCSB-11638239

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library