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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.
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.
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