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Published May, 2022
By Esyllt W. Jones, Delia Gavrus and James Hanley
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
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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.

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Published May, 2022
By Esyllt W. Jones, Delia Gavrus and James Hanley
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
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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.

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Published December, 2021
By Robert Henry, Nancy Van Styvendale, Robert Alexander Innes and J.D. McDougall
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Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, this book addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the 'good life', or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being.

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Published December, 2021
By Robert Henry, Nancy Van Styvendale, Robert Alexander Innes and J.D. McDougall
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
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Drawing attention to the ways in which creative practices are essential to the health, well-being, and healing of Indigenous peoples, this book addresses the effects of artistic endeavour on the 'good life', or mino-pimatisiwin in Cree, which can be described as the balanced interconnection of physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being.

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Published September, 2021
By Travis Hay and Teri Redsky Fiddler
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
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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.

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Published September, 2021
By Travis Hay and Teri Redsky Fiddler
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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.

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Published April, 2020
By Paul Hackett
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Historical geographer Paul Hackett meticulously traces the diffusion of diseases from Europe through central Canada to the West. Hackett's study yields a comprehensive picture of where, when, and how the staggering impact of epidemics was felt.

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Published September, 2019
By John Mills, Erika Dyck, Alexander Deighton, Hugh Lafave, John Elias, Gary Gerber, Alexander Dyck and Tracey Mitchell
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The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century.

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Published September, 2019
By Adele Perry and Mary Jane Logan McCallum
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Examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through one man's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems.

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Published September, 2019
By Abram Hoffer, Erika Dyck, Fannie Kahan, Duncan Blewett, Humphry Osmond and Teodoro Weckowicz
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In 1956, pioneering psychedelic researchers Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond were invited to join members of the Red Pheasant First Nation to participate in a peyote ceremony. Inspired by their experience, they wrote a series of essays explaining and defending the consumption of peyote and the practice of peyotism.

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