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Medicine ways : disease, health, and survival among Native Americans / edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane Weiner.
Penn Museum Library E98.M4 M43 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 6.
- Contemporary Native American communities ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Medicine.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Diseases.
- Indians of North America--Health and hygiene.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2001]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742502546
- 0742502554
- OCLC:
- 44414040
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