Medicine ways : disease, health, and survival among Native Americans /

This volume examines the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice health care, within historical and sociocultural contexts. It explores diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Nativeidentified problems, it also covers historical and cultural experiences such as...

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Contributors: Trafzer, Clifford E., Weiner, Diane
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, ©2001.
Series:Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 6.
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505 0 |a Removing the heart of the Choctaw people: Indian removal from a Native perspective / Donna L. Akers -- Blood came from their mouths: Tongva and Chumash responses to the pandemic of 1801 / Edward D. Castillo -- "In the fall of the year we were troubled with some sickness": typhoid fever deaths at Sherman Institute, 1904 / Jean A. Keller -- Blinded with science: American Indians, the Office of Indian Affairs, and the Federal campaign against trachoma, 1924-1927 / Todd Benson -- Infant mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1914-1964 / Clifford E. Trafzer -- American Indian views on public-health nursing, 1930-1950 / Nancy Reifel -- Interpreting ideas about diabetes, genetics, and inheritance / Diane Weiner -- The embodiment of a working identity: power and process in Rarámuri ritual healing / Jerome M. Levi -- Meeting the challenges of American Indian diabetes: anthropological perspectives on prevention and treatment / Brooke Olson -- Pathways to health: an American Indian breast-cancer education project / Felicia Schanche Hodge and John Casken -- Cancer among American Indians and Alaska natives: trouble with numbers / Linda Burhansstipanov, James W. Hampton, and Martha J. Tenney -- The origins of Navajo youth gangs / Eric Henderson, Stephen J. Kunitz, and Jerrold E. Levy -- Helplessness, hopelessness, and despair: identifying the precursors to Indian youth suicide / Troy Johnson and Holly Tomren -- Self-sufficiency and community revitalization among American Indians in the southwest: American Indian leadership training / Jeanette Hassin and Robert S. Young. 
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