The Role of Law in Ameliorating Global Inequalities in Indigenous Peoples’ Health

Authors

Constance MacIntosh, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Keywords

Indigenous Peoples, Law as Oppression, Dispossession, Assimilation, Discrimination, Law as Support, Protection, Indigenous Health, Ameliorative Law

Abstract

State and international laws have often been instruments of oppression against Indigenous peoples, enabling and casting a veil of legitimacy over state actions that dispossess, assimilate, and discriminate. In the contemporary setting such law has, at times, come to be harnessed to support or protect Indigenous interests, including addressing Indigenous health deficits and associated injustices.

Comments

https://doi.org/10.1111/jlme.12006

Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2013

Recommended Citation

Constance MacIntosh, "The Role of Law in Ameliorating Global Inequalities in Indigenous Peoples’ Health" (2013) 41:1 JL Med & Ethics 74.