Book Review of Downe, Pamela J. (2021). Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The intergenerational and sustained trauma of Indigenous people in Canada is more visible than ever.Most recently, stories of mass burial sites found at former residential schools have been in the media.The trauma placed on the shoulders of Indigenous people in Canada seems neverending.It is important to highlight the resilience of this collective community, one that includes many distinct cultures.This resilience exists despite what the colonial effort has done, and continues to do, to Indigenous people.In her book, "Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS," Dr. Pamela.J. Downe's central argument is that, while a collective model of care is the norm for Indigenous mothers affected by HIV/AIDS, it goes against the prevailing Euro-centric attitudes that favour individualistic models of motherhood.Dr. Downe is a medical anthropologist and professor in the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.Her book "Collective Care" provides an ethnographic field study of a mostly-Indigenous community affected by HIV/AIDS in Saskatoon.The work in this research began with questions related to mothering while being affected by HIV/AIDS.Downe logically structures her book in a way that starts narrow, focusing on motherhood.The scope broadens to include families and fatherhood, adding to the book's complexity.Notably, Downe's book reveals the syndemic nature of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.050 | 0.023 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".