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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 6.
Other Authors: Trafzer, Clifford E.
Weiner, Diane (Diane E.)
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2001], ©2001.
Series:Contemporary Native American communities ; v. 6.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Medicine.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Diseases.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Health and hygiene.
Physical Description:xx, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.