Book of Hope

Healthcare and Survival in the North

Agnes R. Pascal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2025
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-77363-736-5 (ISBN)

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A cancer diagnosis can be life changing for anyone, bringing new physical and emotional realities, changed relationships, and often frustration when dealing with healthcare systems. But living north of sixty means dealing with a higher level of healthcare inequity. Agnes Pascal compiles firsthand narratives from Northern and Indigenous cancer survivors and caregivers that illuminate the unique challenges of healthcare accessibility in the North.

In this rare volume, more than thirty voices offer compassionate advice and insightful analysis born from experience. With courage and dignity, they discuss fear, grief, and death; the logistics of medical travel for treatment; Indigenous and Western medicine; structural determinants of health, including industrial pollution and environmental racism; and the impacts of residential schools and "Indian hospitals" on northern communities. In these pages people share that hope comes from building healing communities.

This book is for people with cancer and their caregivers; health policy makers and advocates; scholars and practitioners of healthcare, Indigenous governance, or environmental racism; and anyone interested grassroots, community-based peer support.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.5.2025
Verlagsort	Black Point, Nova Scotia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
ISBN-10	1-77363-736-3 / 1773637363
ISBN-13	978-1-77363-736-5 / 9781773637365
Zustand	Neuware