Health

Logan McCallum, M.J., & Perry, A. (2018). Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press. A book about the health care system in colonial Canada and the ongoing health disparities Indigenous people experience in this system.

Kenyon, K.H., Forman, L., & Brolan, C.E., (2018). Deepening the relationship between human rights and the social determinants of health: A focus on invisibility and power. Health and Human Rights Journal. An editorial making a connection between the social determinants of health and human rights.

Brian Sinclair Working Group (2017). Out of Sight: Interim Report of the Sinclair Working Group. A report from the Brian Sinclair working group outlining the timeline of his death in the Winnipeg hospital.http://ignoredtodeathmanitoba.ca/index.php/2017/09/15/out-of-sight-interim-report-of-the-sinclair-working-group/

Recommended Videos

Moore, M. (2007). Sicko. Dog Eat Dog Films. A documentary comparing the health care in the United States to the health care systems of other countries.

Spiro, E. (2004). Are the Kids Alright? Karen Bernstein Productions. A documentary about mental health care for kids and youth in the state of Texas in the United States of America.

Shandel, T. (1983). Bitter Medicine, Part One: The Birth of Medicare. NFB. A documentary examining Canada’s national health insurance system, its conception and its evolution.

Recommended Websites

http://ignoredtodeathmanitoba.ca/ A web site hosted by the Brian Sinclair working group, a working group researching the racism in a Winnipeg hospital that cost Sinclair his life.

http://www.ccdonline.ca A web site for Council of Canadians with Disabilities, a national human rights organization in Canada advocating for inclusion and respect for people with disabilities.

https://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/indigenoushealth/ForBrian A web site hosted by the University of Manitoba on the topic of Brian Sinclair, an Indigenous man who died in a Winnipeg hospital due to indifference.

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