Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native

Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans (Contemporary Native American Communities)
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This volume examines the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice health care, within historical and sociocultural contexts. It explores diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Nativeidentified problems, it also covers historical and cultural experiences such as assimilation, poverty and federal and state policies and initiatives. The book also looks at applied solutions that are based in community perogatives and worldviews, whether indigenous, Christian, biomedical or all three.
Country USA
Brand Altamira Press
Manufacturer AltaMira Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0742502554_used
ReleaseDate 2001-03-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780742502550

Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans (Contemporary Native American Communities)