The Healthy Ancestor - Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai'ian Health (Hardcover, New)

Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they "fail" to seek medical care, are "non-compliant" patients, or "lack immunity" enjoyed by the "mainstream" population. Challenging this dominant approach to indigenous health, Juliet McMullin shows how it masks more fundamental inequalities that become literally embodied in Native Americans, shifting blame from unequal social relations to biology, individual behavior, and cultural or personal deficiencies. Weaving a complex story of Native Hawai'ian health in its historical, political, and cultural context, she shows how traditional practices that integrated relationships of caring for the land, the body, and the ancestors are being revitalized both on the islands and in the indigenous diaspora. For the fields of medical anthropology, public health, nursing, epidemiology, and indigenous studies, McMullin's important book offers models for more effective and culturally appropriate approaches to building healthy communities.

General

Imprint:	Left Coast Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	2010
Authors:	Juliet McMullin
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	202
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-59874-499-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
LSN:	1-59874-499-2
Barcode:	9781598744996

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