Diphtheria Antitoxin and Tales of Mercy in Northern Health Care
This article examines the history of diphtheria in the Yukon and the Mackenzie district of the Northwest Territories in the first half of the 20 th century. This analysis follows the traces of this now largely forgotten disease and its treatment to illuminate the constraints – intrinsic and construc...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/cbmh.491-112020 2023-12-31T10:21:22+01:00 Diphtheria Antitoxin and Tales of Mercy in Northern Health Care Piper, Liza 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.491-112020 https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cbmh.491-112020 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Bulletin of Medical History volume 38, issue 2, page 285-319 ISSN 0823-2105 2371-0179 General Medicine journal-article 2021 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/cbmh.491-112020 2023-12-01T08:17:51Z This article examines the history of diphtheria in the Yukon and the Mackenzie district of the Northwest Territories in the first half of the 20 th century. This analysis follows the traces of this now largely forgotten disease and its treatment to illuminate the constraints – intrinsic and constructed – on the provision of health care commensurate with the expectations and needs of northern Indigenous peoples. While diphtheria was never the most serious infectious disease, nor a major cause of death compared with tuberculosis or influenza at this time, examining its history offers significant insight into the creation of medical and public health infrastructures in Canada’s northern territories, and the ways in which those infrastructures served, and failed to serve, different northern populations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories Yukon University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Bulletin of Medical History e491112020 |
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This article examines the history of diphtheria in the Yukon and the Mackenzie district of the Northwest Territories in the first half of the 20 th century. This analysis follows the traces of this now largely forgotten disease and its treatment to illuminate the constraints – intrinsic and constructed – on the provision of health care commensurate with the expectations and needs of northern Indigenous peoples. While diphtheria was never the most serious infectious disease, nor a major cause of death compared with tuberculosis or influenza at this time, examining its history offers significant insight into the creation of medical and public health infrastructures in Canada’s northern territories, and the ways in which those infrastructures served, and failed to serve, different northern populations. |
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Diphtheria Antitoxin and Tales of Mercy in Northern Health Care |
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Diphtheria Antitoxin and Tales of Mercy in Northern Health Care |
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Diphtheria Antitoxin and Tales of Mercy in Northern Health Care |
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