Taking Medicine - Women's Healing Work and Colonial Contact in Southern Alberta, 1880-1930 (Hardcover)

Hunters, medicine men, and missionaries continue to dominate images and narratives of the West, even though historians have recognized women’s role as colonizer and colonized since the 1980s. Kristin Burnett helps to correct this imbalance by presenting colonial medicine as a gendered phenomenon. Although the imperial eye focused on medicine men, Aboriginal women in the Treaty 7 region served as healers and caregivers – to their own people and to settler society – until the advent of settler-run hospitals and nursing stations. By revealing Aboriginal and settler women’s contributions to health care, Taking Medicine challenges traditional understandings of colonial medicine in the contact zone.

General

Imprint:	University of British Columbia Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Women and Indigenous Studies
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Kristin Burnett
Dimensions:	235 x 159 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-7748-1828-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-7748-1828-X
Barcode:	9780774818285

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