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Medicine ways : disease, health, and survival among Native Americans / edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane Weiner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 6.Publication details: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, c2001.Description: xx, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0742502554 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
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 -- 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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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 -- Self-sufficiency and community revitalization among American Indians in the southwest: American Indian leadership training / Jeanette Hassin and Robert S. Young.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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