When disease came to this country : epidemics and colonialism in northern North America / Liza Piper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piper, Liza, 1978- author.

Series:

Global health histories (Series)

Global health histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemics--Yukon--History.

Epidemics.

Epidemics--Northwest Territories--History.

Indigenous peoples--Health and hygiene--Yukon.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Health and hygiene--Northwest Territories.

Yukon--History.

Yukon.

Northwest Territories--History.

Northwest Territories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Twentieth-century circumpolar epidemics shaped historical interpretations of disease in European imperialism in the Americas and beyond. In this revisionist history of epidemic disease as experienced by northern peoples, Liza Piper illuminates the ecological, spatial, and colonial relationships that allowed diseases - influenza, measles, and tuberculosis in particular - to flourish between 1860 and 1940 along the Mackenzie and Yukon rivers. Making detailed use of Indigenous oral histories alongside English and French language archives and emphasising environmental alongside social and cultural factors, When Disease Came to this Country shows how colonial ideas about northern Indigenous immunity to disease were rooted in the racialized structures of colonialism that transformed northern Indigenous lives and lands, and shaped mid-twentieth century biomedical research.

Contents:

When scarlet fever came to this country

Colonial motifs and medicine

The gold rush and after

Infrastructures of extraction, sanitation, and care

Race, gender, and control

Experiences of influenza

Colonial ecologies

A smouldering fire.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2023).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009320924 (ebook)