Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans - Contemporary Native American Communities 6 by Clifford E. Trafzer Details
Improving the terrible health problems faced by many indigenous American communities is essential to their cultural, political and economic well-being. However, it is still often that theoretical studies and applied…
Improving the terrible health problems faced by many indigenous American communities is essential to their cultural, political and economic well-being. However, it is still often that theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the set of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place.
Medical authors study the ways in which people from a large number of indigenous communities perceive and practice health care in historical and socio-cultural contexts. Cultural and physical survival are inseparable from Native Americans. The chapters explore diseases that have been biologically identified, such as cancer and diabetes, as well as problems identified by indigenous people, including historical and contemporary experiences such as forced evictions, absorption, boarding school, poverty, and a range of federal and state policies and initiatives .
They also explore practical solutions based on community privileges and worldviews, whether indigenous, Christian, biomedical or a combination of the three. Medical methods are important for researchers and students in Native American studies, medical anthropology, sociology, as well as for health practitioners and professionals working in and for the tribes.
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