“This is a book around medical violence inflicted on Indigenous children in Canada throughout its history,” said Shaheen-Hussain, a pediatric emergency physician and assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine (McGill University). While this also affected non-Indigenous children, Indigenous children were disproportionately impacted. It wasn’t the first time a change had been requested to the no caregiver policy, including Inuit parents making that request. We are told that, at worst, that medicine is neutral and, at best, it’s a benevolent domain when in fact it’s fraught (with), essentially, this criminal history, this genocidal history,” he said. Shaheen-Hussain used the opportunity to point out the “longstanding history of medical violence” against Indigenous children.

Source: The Star March 12, 2021 19:03 UTC