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Fighting Invisible Enemies - Health and Medical Transitions among Southern California Indians (Hardcover)
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Fighting Invisible Enemies - Health and Medical Transitions among Southern California Indians (Hardcover)
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Native Americans long resisted Western medicine - but had less
power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as
the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of
health and medicine, Native peoples reluctantly began to allow
Western medicine into their communities. Fighting Invisible Enemies
traces this transition among inhabitants of the Mission Indian
Agency of Southern California from the late nineteenth through the
mid-twentieth century. What historian Clifford E. Trafzer describes
is not so much a transition from one practice to another as a
gradual incorporation of Western medicine into Indian medical
practices. Melding indigenous and medical history specific to
Southern California, his book combines statistical information and
documents from the federal government with the oral narratives of
several tribes. Many of these oral histories - detailing
traditional beliefs about disease causation, medical practices, and
treatment - are unique to this work, the product of the author's
close and trusted relationships with tribal elders. Trafzer
examines the years of interaction that transpired before Native
people allowed elements of Western medicine and health care into
their lives, homes, and communities. Among the factors he cites as
impelling the change were settler-borne diseases, the negative
effects of federal Indian policies, and the sincere desire of both
Indians and agency doctors and nurses to combat the spread of
disease. Here we see how, unlike many encounters between Indians
and non-Indians in Southern California, this cooperative effort
proved positive and constructive, resulting in fewer deaths from
infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis. The first study of
its kind, Trafzer's work fills gaps in Native American, medical,
and Southern California history. It informs our understanding of
the working relationship between indigenous and Western medical
traditions and practices as it continues to develop today.
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