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In the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and collaborating physicians sustained a practice of performing sterilizations on Native American women, in many cases without the free and informed consent of their patients. In some cases, women were misled into believing that the sterilization procedure was reversible. In other cases, sterilization was performed without the adequate ...
Dermatophagia (from Ancient Greek δέρμα — lit.skin and φαγείαlit.eating) or dermatodaxia (from δήξις, lit.biting) [3] is a compulsion disorder of gnawing or biting one's own skin, most commonly at the fingers.
The destruction of Native American peoples, cultures, and languages has been characterized as genocide. The federal government alone authorized over 1,500 wars, attacks, and raids on the indigenous people within its borders. [6] Debates are ongoing as to whether the entire process and which specific periods or events meet the definitions of ...
In the history of the European colonization of the Americas, an Indian massacre is any incident between European settlers and indigenous peoples wherein one group killed a significant number of the other group outside the confines of mutual combat in war .
Native Americans often contracted infectious disease through trading and exploration contacts with Europeans, and these were transmitted far from the sources and colonial settlements, through exclusively Native American trading transactions. Warfare and enslavement also contributed to disease transmission. Because their populations had not been previously exposed to most of these infectious ...
Senicide, also known as geronticide or gerontocide, is the practice of killing the elderly. This killing of the elderly can be characterized by both active and passive methods as senio- euthanasia or altruistic self-sacrifice. The aim of active senio-euthanasia is to relieve the clan, family, or society from the burden of an old person.
Netflix's Painkiller is the latest entry in the genre. Based both on Barry Meier’s book, Pain Killer: An Empire Of Deceit And The Origin Of America’s Opioid Epidemic, and on Patrick Radden ...
The United Nations’ definition of genocide does not offer a broad enough explanation of all that goes into a genocide, especially in the case of Indigenous peoples. The destruction of nonhuman animals, land, water, and other nonhuman beings constitute forms of genocide according to Indigenous metaphysics.