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Author:

Trafzer, Clifford E. author.

Title:

Fighting invisible enemies : health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians / Clifford E. Trafzer.

Publisher:

University of Oklahoma Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xix, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Indians of North America--History--California, Southern--History--19th century.
Indians of North America--History--California, Southern--History--20th century.
Indians of North America--History--California, Southern--History--19th century.
Indians of North America--History--California, Southern--History--20th century.
Indians of North America--Health and hygiene.
Indians of North America--Medicine.
California, Southern.
1800-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. Spiritual healing, staying sickness, and shamanism -- 2. Invisible enemies of the early twentieth century -- 3. Investigating invisible enemies and health care -- 4. Indians and the Indian Medical Service -- 5. Indians, nurses, and advancing health care -- 6. Coughing blood and fighting tuberculosis -- 7. Killing an invisible enemy -- 8. Transitions -- 9. Retrospect.

Summary:

"Traces the transition as Western medicine was gradually incorporated into Indian medical practices among inhabitants of the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0806162864
9780806162867

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1051136579

LCCN:

2018041248

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)