Caroline Tait 
Assistant Professor, Department of Native Studies Assistant Director, Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Medical morality and the local worlds of Indigenous peoples: Situating the ethical gaze across the broad spectrum of health care delivery
Emerging and evolving fields of neuro-, bio- and public health ethics largely configure questions of medical morality within the context of high-priced, high-tech, high-drama biomedical settings. However, for the majority of First Nations and Métis peoples, illness episodes are experienced, interpreted, and responded to in the context of the family or community, shaped by cultural values, Indigenous identity, gender roles and socioeconomic status. I call for an "ethical space" in which local Indigenous world views, inlcuding ideas of moral responsibility are given equal consideration to that of Western ethical principles.
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