A Long Way from Home

The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit

By Pat Sandiford Grygier
Series: McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Paperback : 9780773516373, March 1997
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773564855, 272 pages, October 1994

Description

Based on recollections of patients, interviews with participants in the government programs, available literature and statistics, and records of the Northern Affairs Program, Grygier examines the programs for the Inuit in all parts of Canada. She also explores the history of tuberculosis in Canada, conditions of life in the North for both Inuit and non-Natives, and the development and modification of government administration of the North. This important study will be of interest to those in Native and northern studies, Canadian social and political history, and the history of medicine in Canada.