Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic / Lisa Stevenson.

"In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Stevenson, Lisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Life Beside Itself; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Between Two Women; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Facts and Images; 2. Cooperating; 3. Anonymous Care; 4. Life-of-the-Name; 5. Why Two Clocks?; 6. Song; Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam; Notes; References; List of Illustrations; Index.