Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents xi
3. Figures xiii
4. Foreword xv
5. Preface and Acknowledgments xxi
6. A Note to Readers xxix
7. Above All, Do No Harm
8. Timeline 3
9. Introduction 7
10. Medevac Airlifts in Quebec and the Non-Accompaniment Rule 16
11. The #aHand2Hold Campaign: Confronting a System 27
12. Structural Fault Lines in Health Care
13. Social Determinants of Health: Equality, Equity, and Limitations 47
14. Recognizing Systemic Racism: A Social Justice Approach 66
15. Medical Culture and the Myth of Meritocracy 90
16. Medical Colonialism and Indigenous Children
17. A Little Matter of Genocide: Canada and the United Nations Convention 113
18. From the Smallpox War of Extermination to Tuberculosis Deaths in Residential Schools 122
19. Experimental Laboratories: Malnutrition, Starvation, and the BCG Vaccine 135
20. Cruel Treatment: Indian Hospitals, Sanatoria, and Skin Grafting 150
21. Gendered Violence: Forced Sterilization and Coercive Contraception 165
22. Breaking Up Families: Child Welfare Services, Mass Evacuations, and Medical Disappearances 179
23. Oral Histories and the Narrative of Genocide 207
24. The Structural Determinants of Health and Decolonizing Our Future
25. Capitalism and the Cost of Caring 217
26. History Matters: Colonialism, Land, and Indigenous Self-Determination 236
27. Decolonizing Health Care: Reparations before Reconciliation 253
28. Conclusion 271
29. Afterword 277
30. References 283
31. Index 315