Error in Judgement The Politics of Medical Care in an Indian/White Community

On January 22, 1979, an eleven-year old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. Dara Culhane Speck has chronicled the events that followed using interviews, anecdotes, and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, provincial and federal ministries of health, and natonal media, because their private tragedy held implications which reached far beyond one child, one physician, one town, and even one century.AKAKDara Culhane's The Pleasure of the Crown is also available from Talonbooks.AKAKAK--------------------------------------------------------------------------------AKAKISBN 0-88922-246-0; $24.95 Canada / $19.95 U.S.AAK©1987; 280 pp; 3rd printingAKAKAK--------------------------------------------------------------------------------AKAK"Successfully forces the liberal white reader to look beyond totem poles and quaint Indian baskets to our common history."AKóVancouver SunAKAKAKAK--------------------------------------------------------------------------------AKAKAKTo order TalonbooksCulhane Speck, Dara is the author of 'Error in Judgement The Politics of Medical Care in an Indian/White Community' with ISBN 9780889222465 and ISBN 0889222460.