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Title Structures of indifference [electronic resource] : an indigenous life and death in a Canadian city / Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry.
Publication Info. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2018]

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Description 186 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 19 cm
Series eBook Academic Collection - North America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: thirty-four hours -- The city -- The hospital -- Brian Sinclair.
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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.
Note Text in English.
Subject Sinclair, Brian, 1963-2008.
Health Sciences Centre (Winnipeg, Man.)
Ojibwa Indians -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Métis -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Medical personnel -- Malpractice -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Racism in medicine -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Racism -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Race discrimination -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Malpractice -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Hospitals -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Administration -- Case studies.
Indigenous peoples -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Multiculturalism -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Race relations -- Case studies.
Health and race -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Discrimination in medical care -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Health -- Social aspects -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Medical care -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- Case studies.
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Race relations -- Case studies.
Winnipeg (Man.) -- Ethnic relations -- Case studies.
Manitoba -- Race relations -- Case studies.
Manitoba -- Ethnic relations -- Case studies.
Added Author Perry, Adele.
eBook Academic Collection - North America
ISBN 9780887558351 (paper)
9780887555732 (pdf)
9780887555718 (epub)
OCLC # sseb_ssj0002114931
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