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Medicine Ways
Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans
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About this book
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 Native Americans. Chapters explore biomedically-identified diseases, such as cancer and diabetes, as well as Native-identified problems, including historical and contemporary experiences such as forced evacuation, assimilation, boarding school, poverty and a slew of federal and state policies and initiatives. They also explore applied solutions that are based in community prerogatives and worldviews, whether they be indigenous, Christian, biomedical, or some combination of all three. Medicine Ways is an important volume for scholars and students in Native American studies, medical anthropology, and sociology as well as for health practitioners and professionals working in and for tribes. Visit the UCLA American Indian Studies Center web site
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Table of contents
- CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES STEPPING STONES TO THE SEVENTH GENERATION
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE - Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People
- TWO - Blood Came from Their Mouths
- THREE - “In the fall of the year we were troubled with some sickness”
- FOUR - Blinded with Science
- FIVE - Infant Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1914—1964
- SIX - American Indian Views of Public-Health Nursing, 1930—1950
- SEVEN - Interpreting Ideas about Diabetes, Genetics, and Inheritance
- EIGHT - The Embodiment of a Working Identity
- NINE - Meeting the Challenges of American Indian Diabetes
- TEN - Pathways to Health
- ELEVEN - Cancer among American Indians and Alaska Natives
- TWELVE - The Origins of Navajo Youth Gangs
- THIRTEEN - Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Despair
- FOURTEEN - Self-Sufficiency and Community Revitalization among American Indians in the Southwest
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS