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

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Imprint:Walnut Creek [Calif.] : AltaMira Press, c2001.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Trafzer, Clifford E.
Weiner, Diane (Diane E.)
ISBN:0742502546 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742502554 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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