Separate beds [electronic resource] : a history of Indian hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s / Maureen K. Lux.

"Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada's system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the 'Indian Hospitals' were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation....

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Main Author: Lux, Maureen K. (Maureen Katherine), 1956- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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