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Fighting invisible enemies : health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians
- Title
- Fighting invisible enemies : health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians / Clifford E. Trafzer.
- Author
- Trafzer, Clifford E.
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xix, 377 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Indians of North America > Medicine
- Indians of North America > Health and hygiene
- History
- Indians of North America > Medicine > California, Southern > History > 19th century
- Southern California
- 1800-1999
- Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > California, Southern > History > 20th century
- Indians of North America > Medicine > California, Southern > History > 20th century
- Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > California, Southern > History > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-357) 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8077
- ISBN
- 9780806162867
- 0806162864
- LCCN
- 2018041248
- OCLC
- 1051136579
- Author
- Trafzer, Clifford E., author.
- Title
- Fighting invisible enemies : health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians / Clifford E. Trafzer.
- Publisher
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-357) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8077