Women's Studies 2244 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Rankin Inlet, Poliomyelitis, Childbirth
23 Aug 2020
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Cooptation and control: the reconstruction of inuit birth - kaufert. This article looks at the impact that record keeping, evaluation procedures, and statistical techniques have had on policies relating to childbirth in the canadian. Materials were taken from a research project examining the delivery of obstetric care to inuit women from the keewatin region of the northwest territories. The concern here is less with the ways in which the use of these data violate standard procedures of epidemiological research and more with the historical and political context in which the records were created and used. Particularly, the main concern is the use (and sometimes misuse) of rates, numbers, and statistics in the extension of medical control over inuit childbirth. Services branch of health and welfare, canada: now, responsibility now is accredited towards the government of the. The primary reason for sustained government presence (1953 and onwards) in the.
