Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful camp Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes and medical violence inflicted specifically on Indigenous children. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system - and in settler society at large. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, land reclamation, and self-determination for Indigenous peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada.
Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada
Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful camp Launched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government's practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain's captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. In doing so it serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec. Fighting for a Hand to Hold exposes the medical establishment's role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes and medical violence inflicted specifically on Indigenous children. This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of the pervasive, systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system - and in settler society at large. Shaheen-Hussain's unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, land reclamation, and self-determination for Indigenous peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada.
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Fighting for a Hand to Hold should be required reading for every Indigenous course of studies in Canada as well as for history, medical and health programmes. It's a well-researched, honest account by an emergency pediatric physician on the effect of medical colonialism on the health care of Indigenous children in our country. At times, it's a difficult read with the all-too-familiar stories of abuse, mistreatment and neglect of Indigenous children. What's especially disturbing is that these act Fighting for a Hand to Hold should be required reading for every Indigenous course of studies in Canada as well as for history, medical and health programmes. It's a well-researched, honest account by an emergency pediatric physician on the effect of medical colonialism on the health care of Indigenous children in our country. At times, it's a difficult read with the all-too-familiar stories of abuse, mistreatment and neglect of Indigenous children. What's especially disturbing is that these acts took place while children were under medical care. Shaheen-Hussain's research began as an exploration of the Évacuations aéromédicales du Québec (Évaq), a programme that separated children from their caregivers during emergencies when they were transferred by air ambulance from northern communities to hospitals further south. Recognizing that Évaq's non-accompaniment policy was an example of deep-rooted systemic racism and medical colonialism, Shaeen-Hussain and some of his colleagues launched the #aHandToHoldCampaign. In Fighting for a Hand to Hold, Shaeen-Hussain uses this campaign as a case study to explore the truths about how colonial governments have treated Indigenous children and communites and to expose “the medical establishment’s genocidal role in colonization and colonialism.”
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