An Error in Judgement
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2014
280 pages
978-0-88922-863-4 (ISBN)
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In 1979, a Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. Dara Culhane Speck uses interviews and public records to describe how this small, isolated community took on the local hospital, provincial and federal ministries of health, and national media, because the tragedy's implications reached beyond one child, one physician, one town, even one century.
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Dara Culhane
Dara Culhane's first book, An Error in Judgement, probes the controversial 1979 death of a First Nations child who died of an undiagnosed ruptured appendix in Alert Bay, B.C. She continued her work with The Pleasure of the Crown, which offers an in-depth analysis of Aboriginal title litigation in British Columbia and examines the cultural values and biases of the courts from an anthropologist's point of view.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Renee Bernice Smith
- Chapter 2: Action and Reaction
- Chapter 3: My Country Tis of Thy People You're Dying
- Chapter 4: The Way It's Always Been around Here
- Chapter 5: Did Renee Die Because She was an Indian? The Inquest
- Chapter 6: A Symbolic Victory
- Chapter 7: I Cannot Hear what You are Saying Because I Can See what You are: "Indian Health
- Chapter 8: When a Rock Falls on an Egg
- Chapter 9: Angela Richards
- Chapter 10: At Last . . . A Sober Doctor
- Chapter 11: The Inquiry
- Chapter 12: Lessons from History
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Copyright Page
