The Failure of Scientific Medicine: Davis Inlet as an Example of Sociopolitical Morbidity

• Main Authors: Scott, Richard T., Conn, Selina
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Features; Davis Inlet; Rudolph
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2218186; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21263779

The social and economic history of a Labrador coastal town is reviewed with particular reference to the roles of the Church, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the medical profession. Objective indicators of the current health status of the community are presented, and the major causes of ill-health...