URL

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cwhbc/detail.action?docID=6475884

Author

Downe, Pamela

Place of Publication

Toronto, ON

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Publication Date

2021

Physical Description

171p.

Subject

Indigenous

Aboriginal Health

Motherhood

HIV/AIDS

Abstract

Collective Care provides an ethnographic account of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices in the face of Saskatchewan's HIV epidemic. Based on a five-year study conducted in partnership with AIDS Saskatoon, the book focuses on the contrast between Indigenous values of collective kin-care and non-Indigenous models of intensive maternal care. It explores how women and men negotiate the forces of HIV to render motherhood a site of cultural meaning, personal and collective well-being, and, sometimes, individual and community despair. It also introduces readers to how HIV is Indigenized in western Canada and how all HIV-affected and -infected mothers must negotiate this cultural and racialized terrain. Featuring in-depth narrative interviews, notes from participant observation in AIDS Saskatoon's drop-in centre, and a photovoice component, this book offers an accessible account of an engaged anthropologist's work with a community that is both vulnerable and resilient. Each chapter begins with an ethnographic vignette that introduces central concepts, including medical anthropology, syndemics, kinship, and Indigeneity, with the overall aim of humanizing those affected by HIV in western Canada and beyond.

ISBN

9781487587666

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Call Number

GN 400 DOW 2021

URL

http://www.cw.bc.ca/library/pdf/pamphlets/BCCH1071_CAH.pdf

Website Notes

(391KB).

Author

Kelton, Sheila

Corporate Author

Endocrinology Clinic, BC Children's Hospital

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

Children's & Women's Health Centre of BC

Publication Date

2012

Physical Description

Paperback, 34 P.

Subject

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Adrenal Gland. Adrenal Gland Diseases

Endocrinology

Abstract

This booklet describes the condition, including the physiology of the adrenal pathway, but it has an emphasis on practical details, such as measuring/giving salt to infants, preventing adrenal crisis, giving emergency injections, etc. There is also a section on issues for families and girls whose fetal development has been affected by excess androgens. The booklet has been written with input from parents and adult women affected by CAH.

Notes

BCCH1071

ISBN

0000000000001

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Call Number

GI 390 KEL 2012

Copies