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The gifts of civilization : germs and genocide in Hawaiʻi / O.A. Bushnell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bushnell, O. A., 1913-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawaiians--Health and hygiene--History--18th century.
- Hawaiians.
- Hawaiians--Health and hygiene--History--19th century.
- Hawaiians--First contact with other peoples.
- Hawaiians--Diseases.
- Epidemiology--Hawaii--History.
- Disease Outbreaks--Hawaii--History.
- Hawaiians--History--Health and hygiene--18th century.
- Public Health.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Medicine.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Occupations.
- Disciplines and Occupations.
- Disease Outbreaks.
- Epidemiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Epidemiology--Hawaii--History.
- Disease Outbreaks--Hawaii--History.
- Public Health.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Medicine.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Occupations.
- Disciplines and Occupations.
- Disease Outbreaks.
- Epidemiology.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 326 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In nine essays, Bushnell discusses the profound and various impacts on a long isolated people of infectious diseases brought by Captain James Cook in 1778 and subsequent visitors.
- Contents:
- 1. Life and the Land
- 2. Two Unprovable Hypotheses
- 3. The Native Medical Profession
- 4. Kahuna Lapa'au After 1778
- 5. 1778: An End, and a Beginning
- 6. Exploration and Exploitation: 1786-1825
- 7. The Time of Troubles
- 8. The Time of Dying
- 9. Many Who Came Have Vanished.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8248-4179-4
- 0-585-32674-6
- OCLC:
- 1253313274
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