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Medicare is arguably Canada's most valued social program. As
federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century,
Medicare's Histories brings together leading social and health
historians to reflect on the origins and evolution of medicare and
the missed opportunities characterizing its past and present.
Embedding medicare in the diverse constituencies that have given it
existence and meaning, contributors inquire into the strengths and
weaknesses of publicly insured health care and critically examine
medicare's unfinished role in achieving greater health equity for
all people in Canada regardless of race, status, gender, class,
age, and ability.Fundamental to the stories told in Medicare's
Histories is the essential role played by communities - of
activists, critics, health professionals, First Nations, patients,
families, and survivors - in driving demands for health reform, in
identifying particular omissions and inequities exacerbated or even
created by medicare, and in responding to the realities of medicare
for those who work in and rely on it. Contributors to this volume
show how medicare has been shaped by politics (in the broadest
sense of that word), identities, professional organizations, and
social movements in Canada and abroad. As COVID lays bare social
inequities and the inadequacies of health care delivery and public
health, this book shows what was excluded and what was - and is -
possible in health care.
"Place and Replace "is a collection of recent interdisciplinary
research into Western Canada that calls attention to the multiple
political, social, and cultural labors performed by the concept of
"place." The book continues a long-standing tradition of situating
questions of place at the center of analyses of Western Canada's
cultures, pasts, and politics, while making clear that place is
never stable, universal, or static. The essays here confirm the
interests and priorities of Western Canadian scholarship that have
emerged over the past forty years and remind us of the importance
of Indigenous peoples, dispossession, and colonialism; of
migration, race and ethnicity; of gender and women's experiences;
of the impact of the natural and built environment; and the impact
of politics and the state.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed as many as fifty million
people worldwide and affected the vast majority of Canadians. Yet
the pandemic, which came and left in one season, never to recur in
any significant way, has remained difficult to interpret. What did
it mean to live through and beyond this brief, terrible episode,
and what were its long-term effects? Influenza 1918 uses Winnipeg
as a case study to show how disease articulated abd helped to
re-define boundaries of social difference. Esyllt W. Jones examines
the impact of the pandemic in this fragmented community, including
its role in the eruption of the largest labour confrontation in
Canadian history, the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Arguing that
labour historians have largely ignored the impact of infectious
disease upon the working class, Jones draws on a wide range of
primary sources including mothers' allowance and orphanage case
files in order to trace the pandemic's affect on the family, the
public health infrastructure, and other social institutions. This
study brings into focus the interrelationships between epidemic
disease and working class, gender, labour, and ethnic history in
Canada. Influenza 1918 concludes that social conflict is not an
inevitable outcome of epidemics, but rather of inequality and
public failure to fully engage all members of the community in the
fight against disease.
Health crises such as the SARS epidemic and H1N1 have rekindled
interest in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which swept the globe
after the First World War and killed approximately fifty million
people. Epidemic Encounters zeroes in on Canada, where one-third of
the population took ill and fifty-five thousand people died, to
consider the various ways in which this country was affected by the
pandemic. How did military and medical authorities, health care
workers, and ordinary citizens respond? What role did social
inequalities play in determining who survived? Contributors answer
these questions as they pertained to both local and national
contexts. In the process, they offer new insights into medical
history's usefulness in the struggle against epidemic disease.
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