Title Structures of Indifference : an Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City / Mary Jane McCallum and Adele Perry

Published Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press, ©2018

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Intro; Introduction; Chapter 1: The City; Chapter 2: The Hospital; Chapter 3: Brian Sinclair; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Illustration Credits; Index Summary "Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary Indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death. Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Text in English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2019) Subject Sinclair, Brian, 1963-2008 -- Death and burial Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg, Man.) SUBJECT Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg, Man.) fast Subject Ojibwa Indians -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies Métis -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies Medical personnel -- Malpractice -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies Racism in medicine -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies Racism -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies Race discrimination -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies Racism in medicine -- Case studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Death and burial of a person Medical personnel -- Malpractice Métis Ojibwa Indians Race discrimination Race relations Racism Racism in medicine SUBJECT Winnipeg (Man.) -- Race relations -- Case studies Subject Manitoba -- Winnipeg Genre/Form Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book Author Perry, Adele. ISBN 9780887555718 0887555713 9780887555732 088755573X

  Permalink