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Inventing the Thrifty Gene - The Science of Settler Colonialism (Paperback)
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Inventing the Thrifty Gene - The Science of Settler Colonialism (Paperback)
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Loot Price R585
Discovery Miles 5 850
You Save R127 (18%)
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Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked
access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable healthcare,
they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking to
study them. The Science of Settler Colonialism examines the
relationship between science and settler colonialism through the
lens of "Aboriginal diabetes" and the thrifty gene hypothesis,
which posits that Indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to
type-II diabetes and obesity due to their alleged hunter-gatherer
genes. Hay's study begins with Charles Darwin's travels and his
observations on the Indigenous peoples he encountered to set the
context for Canadian histories of medicine and colonialism, which
are rooted in Victorian science and empire. It continues in the
mid-twentieth century with a look at nutritional experimentation
during the long career of Percy Moore, the medical director of
Indian Affairs (1946-1965). Hay then turns to James Neel's
invention of the thrifty gene hypothesis in 1962 and Robert
Hegele's reinvention and application of the hypothesis to Sandy
Lake First Nation in northern Ontario in the 1990s. Finally, Hay
demonstrates the way in which settler colonial science was
responded to and resisted by Indigenous leadership in Sandy Lake
First Nation, who used monies from the thrifty gene study to fund
wellness programs in their community. The Science of Settler
Colonialism exposes the exploitative nature of settler science with
Indigenous subjects, the flawed scientific theories stemming from
faulty assumptions of Indigenous decline and disappearance, as well
as the severe inequities in Canadian healthcare that persist even
today.
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