Medicine ways : disease, health, and survival among Native Americans /
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| Imprint: | Walnut Creek [Calif.] : AltaMira Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | xx, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Native American communities ; 6 Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 6. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4428254 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective
- 2. Blood Came from Their Mouths: Tongva and Chumash Responses to the Pandemic of 1801
- 3. "In the fall of the year we were troubled with some sickness": Typhoid Fever Deaths at Sherman Institute, 1904
- 4. Blinded with Science: American Indians, the Office of Indian Affairs, and the Federal Campaign against Trachoma, 1924-1927
- 5. Infant Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1914-1964
- 6. American Indian Views of Public-Health Nursing, 1930-1950
- 7. Interpreting Ideas about Diabetes, Genetics, and Inheritance
- 8. The Embodiment of a Working Identity: Power and Process in Raramuri Ritual Healing
- 9. Meeting the Challenges of American Indian Diabetes: Anthropological Perspectives on Prevention and Treatment
- 10. Pathways to Health: An American Indian Breast-Cancer Education Project
- 11. Cancer among American Indians and Alaska Natives: Trouble with Numbers
- 12. The Origins of Navajo Youth Gangs
- 13. Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Despair: Identifying the Precursors to Indian Youth Suicide
- 14. Self-Sufficiency and Community Revitalization among American Indians in the Southwest: American Indian Leadership Training
- Index
- About the Contributors