Structures of indifference: an indigenous life and death in a Canadian city / Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCallum, Mary Jane Logan, 1974- author.

Perry, Adele, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sinclair, Brian, 1963-2008--Death and burial.

Sinclair, Brian.

Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg, Man.).

Ojibwa Indians--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Ojibwa Indians.

Métis--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Métis.

Medical personnel--Malpractice--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Medical personnel.

Racism in medicine--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Racism in medicine.

Racism--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Racism.

Race discrimination--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Race discrimination.

Malpractice--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Malpractice.

Hospitals--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Administration--Case studies.

Hospitals.

Indigenous peoples--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Indigenous peoples.

Multiculturalism--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Multiculturalism.

Race relations--Case studies.

Race relations.

Health and race--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Health and race.

Discrimination in medical care--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Discrimination in medical care.

Health--Social aspects--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Health.

Medical care--Manitoba--Winnipeg--Case studies.

Medical care.

Ethnic relations.

Health--Social aspects.

Administration.

Medical personnel--Malpractice.

Winnipeg (Man.)--Race relations--Case studies.

Winnipeg (Man.).

Winnipeg (Man.)--Ethnic relations--Case studies.

Manitoba--Race relations--Case studies.

Manitoba.

Manitoba--Ethnic relations--Case studies.

Indians, North American.

Hospital Administration.

Sinclair, Brian, 1963-2008.

Manitoba--Winnipeg.

Medical Subjects:

Indians, North American.

Racism.

Hospital Administration.

Malpractice.

Local Subjects:

Sinclair, Brian, 1963-2008.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

186 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2018]

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

"Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death. Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: thirty-four hours

The city

The hospital

Brian Sinclair.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-175) and index.

Other Format:

McCallum, Mary Jane, 1974-, author. Structures of indifference.:

ISBN:

0887558356

9780887558351

OCLC:

1035507291