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I Choose Life - Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World (Paperback)
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I Choose Life - Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in Native American Studies Series
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How Navajos navigate the complex world of medicineSurgery, blood
transfusions, CPR, and organ transplantation are common biomedical
procedures for treating trauma and disease. But for Navajo Indians,
these treatments can conflict with their traditional understanding
of health and well-being. This book investigates how Navajos
navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while
coping with illness. Focusing on Navajo attitudes toward invasive
procedures, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz reveals the ideological
conflicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the
choices they make to promote their own health and healing. Schwarz
has conducted extensive interviews with patients, traditional
herbalists and ceremonial practitioners, and members of Native
American Church and Christian denominations to reveal the variety
of perspectives toward biomedicine that prevail on the reservation
and to show how each group within the tribe copes with
health-related issues. She describes how Navajos interpret numerous
health issues in terms of local understanding, drawing on both
their own and biomedical or Christian traditions. She also provides
insight into how Navajos use ceremonial practice and prayer to deal
with the consequences of amputation or transplantation.
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