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Life Beside Itself

Paperback • 2014 • English

Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic

By Lisa Stevenson

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About the book

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).

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9780520282940

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Life Beside Itself

Format

Paperback

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