9780742502550-0742502554-Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans (Volume 6) (Contemporary Native American Communities, 6)

Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans (Volume 6) (Contemporary Native American Communities, 6)

ISBN-13: 9780742502550
ISBN-10: 0742502554
Author: Diane Weiner, Clifford Trafzer
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780742502550
ISBN-10: 0742502554
Author: Diane Weiner, Clifford Trafzer
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Format: Paperback 304 pages

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Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans (Volume 6) (Contemporary Native American Communities, 6) (ISBN-13: 9780742502550 and ISBN-10: 0742502554), written by authors Diane Weiner, Clifford Trafzer, was published by AltaMira Press in 2001. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Native American (Americas History, World History, Cultural, Anthropology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Medicine Ways: Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans (Volume 6) (Contemporary Native American Communities, 6) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Native American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.84.

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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.

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