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

Contributor(s): Weiner, Diane
Language: English Series: Contemporary Native American communities : stepping stones to the seventh generationPublisher: Walnut Creek, Calif., Oxford : AltaMira Press, 2001.Description: xx, 282p. : ill., tables ; 23cm.ISBN: 0742502554
Contents:
Removing the heart of the Choctaw people: Indian removal from a native perpsective / 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 of 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 / Troy Johnson and Holly Tomren; 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Removing the heart of the Choctaw people: Indian removal from a native perpsective / 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 of 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 / Troy Johnson and Holly Tomren; 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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