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Rationalizing Epidemics - Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600 (Hardcover)
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Rationalizing Epidemics - Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600 (Hardcover)
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Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and
their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that
decimated native populations. Century after century, they tried to
understand the causes of epidemics, the vulnerability of American
Indians, and the persistence of health disparities. They confronted
their own responsibility for the epidemics, accepted the obligation
to intervene, and imposed social and medical reforms to improve
conditions. In "Rationalizing Epidemics," David Jones examines
crucial episodes in this history: Puritan responses to Indian
depopulation in the seventeenth century; attempts to spread or
prevent smallpox on the Western frontier in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries; tuberculosis campaigns on the Sioux
reservations from 1870 until 1910; and programs to test new
antibiotics and implement modern medicine on the Navajo reservation
in the 1950s. These encounters were always complex. Colonists,
traders, physicians, and bureaucrats often saw epidemics as markers
of social injustice and worked to improve Indians' health. At the
same time, they exploited epidemics to obtain land, fur, and
research subjects, and used health disparities as grounds for
"civilizing" American Indians. Revealing the economic and political
patterns that link these cases, Jones provides insight into the
dilemmas of modern health policy in which desire and action stand
alongside indifference and inaction.
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