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Smallpox
From: Country of Poxes
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Chapter 3 examines the history of smallpox. Discussing topics includingsmallpox origins, early accounts of smallpox outbreaks across North America, the emergence of new mutations, “folk” medicine and variolation, discrimination towards Québécois for 1885 smallpox outbreak, how Indigenous communities confronted outbreaks, ”diseases as labourers,” outsider as the bearer of disease, rumours of the deliberate introduction of smallpox to Indigenous peoples for landgrabs, smallpox ties to the colonization of Western Canada, the Hudson’s Bay Company’s burgeoning systematic vaccination policy, the eventual eradication of smallpox, and the case study of Sandy Bar, Manitoba as an example of medicine’s complicity with colonialism in Canada.
