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Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

From Isolation to Inclusion: Embracing Local Perspectives in Examining the Treatment Model of Care for Aboriginal Persons Affected by Tuberculosis or Leprosy in the Kimberley Region, North Western Australia

In the remote Kimberley region of North Western Australia, tuberculosis (TB) and leprosy continue to affect a small number of Aboriginal people, despite historical efforts to eliminate either disease. Treatment, predominantly antibiotic therapy, is a principal therapeutic intervention used to cure TB and leprosy and halt infection transmission. Decisions made around treatment therefore impact not only the individual person affected, but also their families and communities. The well-worn models of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) and case management are used nationally to assist treatment continuity and completion. Neither model has been substantiated for cultural appropriateness nor for meeting the specific needs of Aboriginal people. Given the important role of treatment, this thesis uses decolonial theory to critically examine how culturally secure and person-centred care practice could be better incorporated into the current treatment model of care used in the Kimberley region for Aboriginal persons affected by TB or leprosy. To achieve this, qualitative methods were employed to explore the lived experience of Aboriginal persons affected by either disease, as well as community members and Health Care Workers involved in care. In addition, archival research of historical documents relating to treatment was conducted. The findings of this research revealed deeper narratives about medication safety concerns, the importance of family history knowledge for early treatment intervention, and challenges relating to integrating TB and leprosy management into primary health care due to competing priorities of more prevalent chronic diseases. Health care relationships were found to play a key role in optimising treatment. However, gaps and inconsistences were identified within these relationships in the areas of two-way trust, communicating importance and consequences of treatment, providing feedback, shared treatment decision-making, and the provision of culturally respectful support. Family relationships and connection to culture were also significant for psychosocial support. Understanding the history of TB and leprosy treatment specific to the region was found to be an integral part of understanding contemporary treatment models and in identifying ongoing colonising within the way health care services for the treatment of TB and leprosy are delivered. Using these findings, a novel treatment model of care is presented. This offers theoretical and practical strategies to re-think and apply culturally responsive approaches to optimising treatment for Aboriginal persons affected by TB or leprosy. This has the potential benefit of improved wellbeing and elimination of disease for current and future generations

West African aspects of the Pan-African movements: 1900-1945

This study, as the title indicates, is concerned with the West African aspects of the Pan-African movements of the 1920s and I940s. It is not, however, strictly confined to West Africa; it aims to see the subject under review in its widest context and within the complicated network of ideas which characterised early Pan-Africanism. The aim is to study the subject both in depth and in breadth. Accordingly, the study is divided into three parts. Part I, which consists of chapters I and II gives a fairly detailed historical background'as well as incorporating new material. It covers the period from the Abolition era in America to the end of the 1920s and the demise of the Du Boisian Pan-African congresses. Part II consists of chapters III, IV^ V and VI, and is a detailed study of an early pan-West African nationalist body - the National Congress of British West Africa. . The period covered extends from 1918 to the end of the 30*s. Apart from a few cases, the bulk of the material used in these chapters is entirely new; use has been made of private papers and unpublished manuscripts and documents to throw more light on certain questions relating to the N.C.B.W.A. and to West African attitudes to transatlantic Pan-Negroism. Part III comprises chapters VII, VIII and IX. Chapter VII seems unusual in this type of study which generally assumes the nonparticipation of French-speaking Negroes (in our case, French-speaking West Africans) in the early history of Pan-Africanism. Chapter VII deals in some detail with the Pan-Negro thought and politics ofFrench Africans during the period 1921+-1936, and its inclusion is perhaps a much needed departure from the standard histories of Pan-Africanism. Chapters VIII and IX cover a fairly well known phase of the Pan-African movement but the focus is mostly on West Africa. The themes dealt with include the political impact of the Italo-Ethiopian crises, the emergence of a new group of Pan-African radicals both in London and in West Africa, and the evolution of Kwame Nkrumah's ideas on political unification. Rare journals and the Sekyi papers have been used in an attempt to reconstruct and explain Nkrumah's early political views and attitudes

L'Histoire du Canada de F.-X. Garneau et sa traduction anglaise : analyse comparative de deux livres

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal