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Medicine Ways [electronic resource] : Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans.

Trafzer, Clifford E. (Author). Weiner, Diane. (Added Author).

Summary:

Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in Medicine Ways examine the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice health care within historical and socio-cultural contexts. Cultural and physical survival are inseparable for.

Record details

ISBN: 9780759117075 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0759117071 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 pages).
Publisher: Lanham : AltaMira Press, 2001.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Introduction, Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane Weiner; ONE DONNA L. AKERS Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective; TWO EDWARD D. CASTILLO Blood Came from Their Mouths: Tongva and Chumash Responses to the Pandemic of 1801; THREE JEAN A. KELLER ""In the fall of the year we were troubled with some sickness"": Typhoid Fever Deaths at Sherman Institute, 1904; FOUR TODD BENSON Blinded with Science: American Indians, the Office of Indian Affairs, and the Federal Campaign against Trachoma, 1924-1927.

FIVE CLIFFORD E. TRAFZER Infant Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1914-1964SIX NANCY REIFEL American Indian Views of Public-Health Nursing, 1930-1950; SEVEN DIANE WEINER Interpreting Ideas about Diabetes, Genetics, and Inheritance; EIGHT JEROME M. LEVI The Embodiment of a Working Identity: Power and Process in Rarámuri Ritual Healing; NINE BROOKE OLSON Meeting the Challenges of American Indian Diabetes: Anthropological Perspectives on Prevention and Treatment; TEN FELICIA SCHANCHE HODGE and JOHN CASKEN Pathways to Health: An American Indian Breast-Cancer Education Project.

ELEVEN LINDA BURHANSSTIPANOV, JAMES W. HAMPTON, and MARTHA J. TENNEY Cancer among American Indians and Alaska Natives: Trouble with NumbersTWELVE ERIC HENDERSON, STEPHEN J. KUNITZ, and JERROLD E. LEVY The Origins of Navajo Youth Gangs; THIRTEEN TROY JOHNSON and HOLLY TOMREN Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Despair: Identifying the Precursors to Indian Youth Suicide; FOURTEEN JEANETTE HASSIN and ROBERT S. YOUNG Self-Sufficiency and Community Revitalization among American Indians in the Southwest: American Indian Leadership Training; Index; About the Contributors.

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