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Tuberculosis
From: Country of Poxes
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Chapter 4 focuses on tuberculosis. Discussing topics including the present persistence of tuberculosis into the twenty first century across the globe including in Canada, the long history of tuberculosis, the illnesses dominance throughout medical policy and research in modern Canadian medicine, the establishment of sanatoriums and their white only policies, the creation of the “Indian hospital” as a solution to the problem of exponential tuberculosis growth in Indigenous communities, Canada’s entrenched racism, the role of “bureaucratic colonialism,” and a the present work being done to keep tuberculosis rates down in Indigenous communities at the present.