This article discusses the culture of childbearing. Explores how medicalization has becomes the ritual of birth in North America. Explores how women are reclaiming their bodies in birth.
This article illustrates the influence of culture as an essential ingredient of nurses’ training. Validates traditional knowledge. Highlights the authors experience in creating the curriculum for The Saskatchewan Indian Community College.
This article is the second of a four part series on alternatives to allopathy; discusses influences on culture, and how we define and go about achieving health and healing.
A guide to help medical professionals, health and wellness workers, teachers, students and others find resources to better understand Inuit culture, health perspectives and the way we live. It provides links to various websites, books, in-depth reports, periodicals and videos about Inuit history, culture, values, traditional healing, and current health and wellness.
Predicts the positive results of fostering a sense of cultural identity. Lists ways in which parents, caregivers, and health practitioners can provide related support to Aboriginal children.
Examines understandings of culture in gender and development studies. Also discusses efforts and projects that respond to problematic representations of north-south differences and power dynamics. Includes recommendations based on the experiences described in the report.
Examines the barriers created by policies which do not support Aboriginal women to maintain full cultural lives while pursuing contemporary education and work.
<p>Includes bibliographical references. Issued also in French under title: À coeur ouvert : des Indiennes, des Métisses et des Inuites d'Amérique du Nord parlent de culture, d'instruction et de travail Issued also in Inuktitut under title: Kanatami allait, allangajut amma inuit arnait uqausiqalaurningit iliqkusimita, ilinaqtuliriniullu amma iqkanajarniup miksanu</p>
Analyses the underlying assumptions and current practice of classification and assessment in federal women's prisons, and the implications for gender and diversity.
Includes bibliographical references.
Issued also in French under title: Oser prendre des risques : Intégration des différences entre les sexes et entre les cultures au classement et à l'évaluation des délinqantes sous responsabilité fédérale.
