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Article: A Persistent Spirit: Towards Understanding Health Care in British Columbia.
- Article from:
- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
- Author:
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Mind, body, spirit, place, colonialism, resistance, oppression, diversity, cultural sensitivity, loss, empowerment, healing, knowledge, tradition, continuity - all these concepts guide the essays in this fascinating volume. We are reminded in the introduction that we need to gird ourselves with multiple ways of seeing and hearing to understand Aboriginal health issues in a holistic manner.
A great variety of information is provided and a number of questions are raised by this collection. A wealth of demographic and statistical data are given about births, deaths and mortality issues (Foster et al.), demographic changes and history (Acheson), population and place ...