Medicine Ways

Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans

Autor: Clifford E. Trafzer, Diane Weiner

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: AltaMira Press,U.S.

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Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cul...

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Autor

Clifford E. Trafzer, Diane Weiner

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2001

Stránek

304

EAN

9780742502550

ISBN

0742502554

Enbook ID

04903937

Vydavatel

AltaMira Press,U.S.

Hmotnost

454

Rozměry

154 x 232 x 18

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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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