The birth of settler colonialism: Samir Shaheen-Hussain, Alisa Lombard, Suzy Basile, ‘Confronting medical colonialism and obstetric violence in Canada’, The Lancet, 401, 10390, 2023, pp. 1763-1765 | settler colonial studies blog

The birth of settler colonialism: Samir Shaheen-Hussain, Alisa Lombard, Suzy Basile, ‘Confronting medical colonialism and obstetric violence in Canada’, The Lancet, 401, 10390, 2023, pp. 1763-1765

30May23

Excerpt: On Sept 28, 2020, just moments before her death, 37-year-old Joyce Echaquan sent a message to her family via Facebook Live, expressing her distress about treatment administered by hospital staff at an emergency department in Joliette, QC, Canada. She had been admitted there a few days earlier with severe abdominal pain. Echaquan was entitled to respectful, dignified care. Instead, capturing health-care workers treating her disdainfully with slurs and taunts based on degrading stereotypes of Indigenous women, Echaquan’s live-stream video made headlines worldwide, exposing the racist and sexist violence Indigenous women face all too often in the Canadian health-care system. However, initial media coverage did not reveal the repeated discrimination Echaquan had experienced during her encounters with the medical establishment over the years.

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