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Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American
communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic
well being. However, it is still too often the case that both
theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native
American perspectives on the range of factors that actually
contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in
Medicine Ways examine the ways people from a multitude of
indigenous communities think about and practice health care within
historical and socio-cultural contexts. Cultural and physical
survival are inseparable for Native Americans. Chapters explore
biomedically-identified diseases, such as cancer and diabetes, as
well as Native-identified problems, including historical and
contemporary experiences such as forced evacuation, assimilation,
boarding school, poverty and a slew of federal and state policies
and initiatives. They also explore applied solutions that are based
in community prerogatives and worldviews, whether they be
indigenous, Christian, biomedical, or some combination of all
three. Medicine Ways is an important volume for scholars and
students in Native American studies, medical anthropology, and
sociology as well as for health practitioners and professionals
working in and for tribes. Visit the UCLA American Indian Studies
Center web site
Susan Wiles is blissfully retired from her teaching position at
Westbrook Elementary School. What a joy to be able to attend the
holiday concert without worrying about how her student chorus will
perform. But, wait a minute. Where's the principal, Vicki Rogers?
The concert can't resume before she greets the parents and guests.
Susan offers to go check the main office, only to find the missing
administrator lying dead on the office floor. My goodness Nothing
like this ever happened when Susan had worked here. Of course, now
that she's retired she has time to help the local police (one of
whom is her daughter Lynette) investigate the mysterious crime. Did
the principal die of natural causes? The bruises on her face don't
seem severe enough to be fatal. But what about that cupcake sitting
on her desk? Could she have been poisoned? Susan has just found the
perfect retirement activity--much to her daughter's chagrin. And
when the dead woman's teenage daughter and one of Susan's former
top students, begs for Susan's help--how can she say no? Little
does Susan realize that this crime will take her far from the
schoolhouse doors, as she investigates a mystery that extends back
into one family's painful past.
This multidisciplinary analysis links epidemiologic, cultural,
social, and medical analyses of cancer prevention, detection, and
care. The contributors demonstrate that different ethnic groups and
cultures have distinct concepts of cancer prevention and control.
These ideas are dynamic, shaped by personal and group histories,
social networks, technologies, politics, economics, religions,
linguistics, and other environmental conditions.
Cross-cultural writings about cancer make this book useful to
professionals and students in the disciplines of medicine, nursing,
public health, sociology, anthropology, and social welfare. The 15
articles reveal that cancer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors are
diverse cross-cultural constructs resulting from distinct
experiences. Ideas and behaviors about prevention and control may
be shared or individual and idiosyncratic. The book is composed of
three sections: I. Cancer Beliefs and Behaviors; II. Interventions
in Review; III. New Strategies for Cancer Research. The authors,
including anthropologists, epidemiologists, health educators,
nurses, and physicians, explicate notions of prevention and
control, and assess interventions and methodologies that illustrate
generally ignored successes in decreased mortality and morbidity
among members of specific populations.
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