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Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes - Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature (Paperback)
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Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes - Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives
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This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical
discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in
social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist
reductivism of biomedicine that excludes Indigenous (and
non-Western) epistemologies and instead draw attention to how
illness, healing, treatment, and genetic research are socially
constructed and dependent on inherently racialist thinking. This
volume highlights how interventions into the hegemony of
biomedicine are vigorously addressed in Native American literature.
The book covers tuberculosis and diabetes epidemics, the emergence
of Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnology, and the
problematics of a biomedical model of psychiatry. The book analyzes
work by Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan,
Heid E. Erdrich, Elissa Washuta and Frances Washburn. The book will
appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as
well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.
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