Article ID: CBB094696629

Diphtheria Antitoxin and Tales of Mercy in Northern Health Care (2021)

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This article examines the history of diphtheria in the Yukon and the Mackenzie district of the Northwest Territories in the first half of the 20th century. This analysis follows the traces of this now largely forgotten disease and its treatment to illuminate the constraints – intrinsic and constructed – on the provision of health care commensurate with the expectations and needs of northern Indigenous peoples. While diphtheria was never the most serious infectious disease, nor a major cause of death compared with tuberculosis or influenza at this time, examining its history offers significant insight into the creation of medical and public health infrastructures in Canada’s northern territories, and the ways in which those infrastructures served, and failed to serve, different northern populations.

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Authors & Contributors
Venkat, Bharat Jayram
Dwyer, Michael
Rebekah Lee
Maes, Kenneth
Kim, Y.
McGuire, Laurette Ann
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Prevention and control of disease
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Health care
Colonialism
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
Renaissance
Places
United States
Canada
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Ethiopia
Alberta, Canada
New Guinea
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