Alcohol in Native Communities and Deadly Identity Markers
Alcohol consumption among native people has been an issue of concern since their very first contacts with Europeans. During the 20th century, medical dialogues took the place of the previous moral and legal approaches. Today, physicians and health professionals are on the front lines, working to con...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::b697c505a6787bdf3f3371532731ccd5 2023-05-15T16:55:22+02:00 Alcohol in Native Communities and Deadly Identity Markers Bernard Roy 2005-09-15 http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2005-v4-n1-dss949/011330ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2005-v4-n1-dss949/011330ar.pdf https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/011330ar https://doi.org/10.7202/011330ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2005-v4-n1-dss949/011330ar/ https://www.erudit.org/revue/dss/2005/v4/n1/011330ar.html https://core.ac.uk/display/59246676 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/011330ar https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2140429453 fr fre Drogues, santé et société http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2005-v4-n1-dss949/011330ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2005-v4-n1-dss949/011330ar.pdf https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/011330ar http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/011330ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/dss/2005-v4-n1-dss949/011330ar/ https://www.erudit.org/revue/dss/2005/v4/n1/011330ar.html https://core.ac.uk/display/59246676 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/011330ar https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2140429453 undefined oai:erudit.org:011330ar 011330ar 10.7202/011330ar 2140429453 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::fe04a8c6a9af64409be6302b37bf8191 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities alcoolisme toxicomanie identité Innu Autochtone Alcoholism drug addiction identity Inuit Native person alcoholismo toxicomanía identidad autóctono anthro-se socio Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2005 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/011330ar 2023-01-22T16:41:02Z Alcohol consumption among native people has been an issue of concern since their very first contacts with Europeans. During the 20th century, medical dialogues took the place of the previous moral and legal approaches. Today, physicians and health professionals are on the front lines, working to control alcoholism and other drug addictions in native communities. This article describes two aspects. First, the author critiques the explanatory medical model of alcoholism among native people which persists in considering alcohol dependency as essentially a biological disease, one that requires constantly increasing amounts of medical and pharmaceutical resources. This critique offers the author a platform which then enables him to invest in an argument designed to show that alcoholism in native communities is firmly entrenched in their historical and political situation. Alcoholism reveals the significant social disparities and exclusion which have become part of the biological, social and political life of native people. The author suggests that alcoholic behaviour observed in native communities reveals a complex identification framework which, in certain cases, could be qualified as “deadly”. In this article, the act of drinking is presented as an unavoidable component of the act of eating, a completely social act feeding many points of view but most of all the “social and political body” of the native person in his daily life. La consommation d’alcool chez les Autochtones constitue un sujet de préoccupation depuis les tous premiers contacts avec les Européens. Au XXe siècle, le discours médical a pris la relève des approches morales et légales qui dominèrent les siècles précédents. Aujourd’hui, médecins et professionnels de la santé occupent une place de premier plan dans les mesures de contrôle de l’alcoolisme et autres toxicomanies en milieu autochtone. Les propos du présent article sont de deux ordres. Dans un premier temps, l’auteur s’investit dans une série de critiques qu’il porte sur le modèle explicatif ... Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Unknown Morales ENVELOPE(-55.833,-55.833,-63.000,-63.000) Drogues, santé et société 4 1 85 128 |
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Alcohol consumption among native people has been an issue of concern since their very first contacts with Europeans. During the 20th century, medical dialogues took the place of the previous moral and legal approaches. Today, physicians and health professionals are on the front lines, working to control alcoholism and other drug addictions in native communities. This article describes two aspects. First, the author critiques the explanatory medical model of alcoholism among native people which persists in considering alcohol dependency as essentially a biological disease, one that requires constantly increasing amounts of medical and pharmaceutical resources. This critique offers the author a platform which then enables him to invest in an argument designed to show that alcoholism in native communities is firmly entrenched in their historical and political situation. Alcoholism reveals the significant social disparities and exclusion which have become part of the biological, social and political life of native people. The author suggests that alcoholic behaviour observed in native communities reveals a complex identification framework which, in certain cases, could be qualified as “deadly”. In this article, the act of drinking is presented as an unavoidable component of the act of eating, a completely social act feeding many points of view but most of all the “social and political body” of the native person in his daily life. La consommation d’alcool chez les Autochtones constitue un sujet de préoccupation depuis les tous premiers contacts avec les Européens. Au XXe siècle, le discours médical a pris la relève des approches morales et légales qui dominèrent les siècles précédents. Aujourd’hui, médecins et professionnels de la santé occupent une place de premier plan dans les mesures de contrôle de l’alcoolisme et autres toxicomanies en milieu autochtone. Les propos du présent article sont de deux ordres. Dans un premier temps, l’auteur s’investit dans une série de critiques qu’il porte sur le modèle explicatif ... |
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