Protecting the providers of Indigenous maternal care

Krzywania, Monika

doi:10.22215/etd/2018-13328

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“…The underlying prerequisites of professionalization are sources of dangers and are seemingly impossible to disrupt: The purposeful omission of Indigenous knowledges within Euro-Western education systems; the positioning of women and Two Spirit community members as subservient or even completed excluded from professional bodies; and the presumed leadership of white male physicians (Bourgeault et al, 2018;Loscocco, 2018;Vogel, 2019). The purposeful omission of Indigenous birthing practices, ceremonies, medicines, and care providers accompanied the professionalization of maternity care (Krzywania, 2018;Lawford & Giles, 2012;Olson, 2013). These are dangers that we identify, because they serve to constantly recreate hierarchies of care and denigrate Indigenous health knowledge systems and as a result, Indigenous Peoples themselves.…”

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Indigenous Relationality and Kinship and the Professionalization of a Health Workforce

Campbell¹,

Austin²,

Bax-Campbell³

et al. 2020

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We, as a group of academic learners, argue the professionalization of healthcare service providers reinforces hierarchies of knowledge that results in the exclusion of Indigenous Peoples. Through decolonizing theory and Indigenous methodology, we applied Indigenous understandings of relationality and kinship to examine the professionalization of the health workforce. Relationality is a philosophy that describes the interconnections between all of creation and kinship consists of family, community, and all extended human and more-than-human relations. Indigenous health knowledges reflect relationality and kinship and are practiced by midwives, doulas, and Comadronas. Within the Euro-Western biomedical model, these healers are often incorporated into maternity care services for the purposes of professionalizing their roles. Professionalization, however, reinforces power differentiations between healthcare providers and advances biomedical hegemony and hierarchies of knowledge, all of which exclude Indigenous kinship and relationality. The dangers of professionalization of the health workforce result in the omission of Indigenous knowledges, because the Euro-Western biomedical model of health is built on the philosophies of colonialism and capitalism. To counter professionalization, Indigenous relationality and kinship must be prioritized in the provision of healthcare so that it is inclusive to Indigenous Peoples and their knowledges, the results of which will benefit us all.

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Section: The Dangers Of Professionalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%