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Can Bull Med Hist. 1998;15(2):277-95. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.15.2.277.
This article examines how Native children of the Qu'Appelle reserves in southern Saskatchewan became the subjects of a trial of the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis in 1933. Race and theories of racial evolution were referred to in the construction of the Native people as "primitives" and the reserves as disease menaces to the surrounding communities. Dr. R.G. Ferguson, medical superintendent of the nearby Qu'Appelle Sanatorium conducted the trial in order to prove that BCG could provide resistance to tuberculosis even among the "less evolved races." While BCG afforded some protection against tuberculosis, nearly one-fifth of the children in the trial died from diseases of poverty, gastroenteritis and pneumonia, as a result of the lethal living conditions on the reserves.
本文探讨了1933年萨斯喀彻温省南部夸阿佩勒保留地的原住民儿童如何成为卡介苗结核病试验的对象。在将原住民塑造为“原始人”以及将保留地视为对周边社区的疾病威胁的过程中，涉及到了种族及种族进化理论。附近夸阿佩勒疗养院的医务主任R.G. 弗格森医生进行了这项试验，以证明卡介苗即使在“进化程度较低的种族”中也能提供结核病抵抗力。虽然卡介苗对结核病有一定的预防作用，但由于保留地恶劣的生活条件，近五分之一的受试儿童死于贫困相关疾病、肠胃炎和肺炎。
