The Resource Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic, Lisa Stevenson
Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic, Lisa Stevenson
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The item Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic, Lisa Stevenson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
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- "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 balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our common sense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself: the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive. For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of us, life is "somewhere else," and the task is to articulate forms of care for others that are adequate to that truth"--
- "This ethnographic study examines two historical moments in the Canadian Arctic: the Inuit tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). The colonial Canadian North was imagined as a laboratory for a social experiment to transform Inuit into bona fide Canadian citizens by, among other things, reducing their death rate. This experiment demanded Inuit cooperation with the forms of anonymous care the state provided--including the evacuation of tubercular Inuit Southern Sanatoria, which left many Inuit families without the story or image of their loved one's death. A similar indifference to who lives or dies is manifest in the adoption of the "suicide hotline"--An explicitly anonymous form of care where caregivers exhort unidentified Inuit to live while simultaneously expecting them to die. Through attention to the images through which people think and dream, Stevenson describes a world in which life is "beside itself": the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. For the Inuit, life is "somewhere else," and Stevenson attempts to articulate forms of care adequate to that truth"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- Cover; Life Beside Itself; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Between Two Women; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Facts and Images; 2. Cooperating; 3. Anonymous Care; 4. Life-of-the-Name; 5. Why Two Clocks?; 6. Song; Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam; Notes; References; List of Illustrations; Index
- Isbn
- 9780520958555
- Label
- Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic
- Title
- Life beside itself
- Title remainder
- imagining care in the Canadian Arctic
- Statement of responsibility
- Lisa Stevenson
- Subject
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- Canada
- Canada
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Health & Biological Sciences
- History
- Infectious Diseases
- Inuit -- Health and hygiene
- Inuit -- Health and hygiene -- Canada -- History
- Inuit -- Medical care -- Canada -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | General
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis -- Canada -- History
- Tuberculosis -- history
- Medicine
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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 balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our common sense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself: the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive. For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of us, life is "somewhere else," and the task is to articulate forms of care for others that are adequate to that truth"--
- "This ethnographic study examines two historical moments in the Canadian Arctic: the Inuit tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). The colonial Canadian North was imagined as a laboratory for a social experiment to transform Inuit into bona fide Canadian citizens by, among other things, reducing their death rate. This experiment demanded Inuit cooperation with the forms of anonymous care the state provided--including the evacuation of tubercular Inuit Southern Sanatoria, which left many Inuit families without the story or image of their loved one's death. A similar indifference to who lives or dies is manifest in the adoption of the "suicide hotline"--An explicitly anonymous form of care where caregivers exhort unidentified Inuit to live while simultaneously expecting them to die. Through attention to the images through which people think and dream, Stevenson describes a world in which life is "beside itself": the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. For the Inuit, life is "somewhere else," and Stevenson attempts to articulate forms of care adequate to that truth"--
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- Stevenson, Lisa
- Dewey number
- 362.19699/5008997124
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- RC314
- LC item number
- .S74 2014eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WF 205 DC2
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Inuit
- Tuberculosis
- Inuit
- Tuberculosis
- Canada
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Inuit
- Tuberculosis
- Canada
- Medicine
- Health & Biological Sciences
- Infectious Diseases
- Label
- Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic, Lisa Stevenson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- Contents
- Cover; Life Beside Itself; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Between Two Women; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Facts and Images; 2. Cooperating; 3. Anonymous Care; 4. Life-of-the-Name; 5. Why Two Clocks?; 6. Song; Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam; Notes; References; List of Illustrations; Index
- Control code
- 884725892
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520958555
- Lccn
- 2014006556
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- computer
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- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884725892
- Label
- Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic, Lisa Stevenson
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Life Beside Itself; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue: Between Two Women; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Facts and Images; 2. Cooperating; 3. Anonymous Care; 4. Life-of-the-Name; 5. Why Two Clocks?; 6. Song; Epilogue: Writing on Styrofoam; Notes; References; List of Illustrations; Index
- Control code
- 884725892
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520958555
- Lccn
- 2014006556
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt74qftz
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884725892
Subject
- Canada
- Canada
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Health & Biological Sciences
- History
- Infectious Diseases
- Inuit -- Health and hygiene
- Inuit -- Health and hygiene -- Canada -- History
- Inuit -- Medical care -- Canada -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | General
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis -- Canada -- History
- Tuberculosis -- history
- Medicine
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