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9780802047281

Medicine That Walks

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  • ISBN13:

    9780802047281

  • ISBN10:

    0802047289

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr
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Summary

Challenging the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with European disease, Lux argues that the diseases killing the Plains people were not contagious epidemics but grinding poverty, malnutrition, and overcrowding.

Author Biography

MAUREEN K. LUX is a post-doctoral fellow at the Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Beyond Biology 3(17)
`The First Time We Were Poisoned by the Government': Starvation and the Erosion of Health
20(51)
`Help Me Manitou': Medicine and Healing in Plains Cultures
71(32)
`I Was in Darkness': Schools and Missions
103(35)
`Indifferent to Human Life and Suffering': Medical Care for Native People to 1920
138(51)
`A Menace to the Community': Tuberculosis
189(36)
Conclusion 225(6)
Notes 231(36)
Bibliography 267(18)
Illustration Credits 285(2)
Index 287

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