Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic

Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic

In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to th…

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