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Indigenous Peoples, Tuberculosis Research and Changing Ideas about Race in the 1930s

2021

McMillen, C.

Canadian Medical Association

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This article describes the evolution of thinking on racial explanations for who did or did not get tuberculosis. The author concludes that the effects of colonization and policies rooted in racism are ongoing, with powerful and lingering effects on how we understand TB among Indigenous Peoples.

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Indigenous Peoples, Tuberculosis Research and Changing Ideas about Race in the 1930s.

McMillen, C. (2021). Indigenous Peoples, tuberculosis research and changing ideas about race in the 1930s. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 193(43), E1666-E1668.

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