Over the past decade, the" problem" of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects
among Aboriginal peoples has received increasing attention from the Canadian nation …

This article draws on data collected in group interviews with six young, urban Aboriginal
mothers whose lives have included substance use and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal …

Over the past 25 years, Aboriginal leaders, community advocates, children's and women's
health specialists and Canadian government agencies have drawn increasing attention to …

Within Canada fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is understood mainly as a health and wellness
concern of Aboriginal people. This is supported not only in the medical research literature …

An inductive methodology, known as grounded theory, was utilized in an attempt to inform,
and challenge current theory and practice governing contemporary prevention efforts …

These documents were published together by Health Canada in 1997, under the title It
Takes a Community (FAS/FAE Technical Working Group, 1977). I show how specific …

You've seen lots of kids with FAS [fetal alchohol syndrome] and FAE [fetal alcohol effects].
They are the giggling, howling, glue-sniffing ghost children from Sheshatshiu who so …

In this paper, we examine how Canadian federal policy discourse on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD) frames the 'problem'of alcohol use and FASD in gendered and colonial …

(FAS) unfolding in Indigenous communities has been invoked to support increased
surveillance and control of Indigenous women's fertility, without meaningful supports and …

This paper is an examination of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and the related
conditions of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), fetal alcohol effects (FAE), and alcoholrelated …