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Ebba Olofsson

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ID2173135
NAMEEbba Olofsson
GIVEN NAMESEbba
FAMILY NAMEOlofsson
SIGNATUREOLOFSSON E
AFFILIATIONSCulture and Mental Health Research Unit,Jewish General Hospital,4333 Côte Ste Catherine Road,Montreal,QC H3T 1E4,Canada
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1
  • Narratives of Displacement and Trauma: The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit of Nunavik in the 1940s–1950s

    Open Access•Ebba Olofsson, Joseph Folco•ARTICLE•Journal of Northern Studies•2021

    The Inuit of Canada have suffered from a plethora of governmental interventions including relocations, residential schooling, and forced hospitalisation due to the tuberculosis epidemic. The hospitalisation of Inuit had a detrimental effect on individuals through physical abuse, disconnection from language and culture, and being removed from their families and communities. These government interventions are examples of structural violence that po…

  • Negotiating identities: Inuit tuberculosis evacuees in the 1940s-1950s

    Open Access•Ebba Olofsson, Tara L Holton et al.•ARTICLE•Études/Inuit/Studies•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    In the mid 1940s the Canadian government implemented a medical mass-survey of Inuit and other Indigenous peoples living in northern Canada, and evacuated those suspected of having tuberculosis to hospitals in the south. Hospital stays often lasted for years at a time and while some patients were eventually returned to their home communities, many never returned, some because they chose to stay in the south and others because they did not survive …

  • Negotiating identities: Inuit tuberculosis evacuees in the 1940s-1950s

    Open Access•Ebba Olofsson, Tara L Holton et al.•ARTICLE•Études/Inuit/Studies•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    In the mid 1940s the Canadian government implemented a medical mass-survey of Inuit and other Indigenous peoples living in northern Canada, and evacuated those suspected of having tuberculosis to hospitals in the south. Hospital stays often lasted for years at a time and while some patients were eventually returned to their home communities, many never returned, some because they chose to stay in the south and others because they did not survive …

  • Negotiating identities: Inuit tuberculosis evacuees in the 1940s-1950s

    Open Access•Ebba Olofsson, Tara L Holton et al.•ARTICLE•Études/Inuit/Studies•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 13

    In the mid 1940s the Canadian government implemented a medical mass-survey of Inuit and other Indigenous peoples living in northern Canada, and evacuated those suspected of having tuberculosis to hospitals in the south. Hospital stays often lasted for years at a time and while some patients were eventually returned to their home communities, many never returned, some because they chose to stay in the south and others because they did not survive …

  • Narratives of Displacement and Trauma: The Tuberculosis Epidemic among the Inuit of Nunavik in the 1940s–1950s

    Open Access•Ebba Olofsson, Joseph Folco•ARTICLE•Journal of Northern Studies•2021

    The Inuit of Canada have suffered from a plethora of governmental interventions including relocations, residential schooling, and forced hospitalisation due to the tuberculosis epidemic. The hospitalisation of Inuit had a detrimental effect on individuals through physical abuse, disconnection from language and culture, and being removed from their families and communities. These government interventions are examples of structural violence that po…

Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 works) · Canadian Identity and History (1 works) · Chose (1 works) · Ethnology (1 works) · Family medicine (1 works) · Geography (1 works) · Government (linguistics (1 works) · History (1 works)

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