Research Catalog

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Description

1. xix, 377 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Traces the transition as Western medicine was gradually incorporated into Indian medical practices among inhabitants of the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century"--

Subject

1. 1800-1999
2. Indians of North America > Medicine > History > California, Southern > 19th century
3. Indians of North America > Medicine > History > California, Southern > 20th century
4. Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > History > California, Southern > 19th century
5. Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > History > California, Southern > 20th century
6. Indians of North America > Health and hygiene
7. Indians of North America > Medicine
8. Southern California

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 1. Spiritual healing, staying sickness, and shamanism -- 2. Invisible enemies of the early twentieth century -- 3. Investigating invisible enemies and health care -- 4. Indians and the Indian Medical Service -- 5. Indians, nurses, and advancing health care -- 6. Coughing blood and fighting tuberculosis -- 7. Killing an invisible enemy -- 8. Transitions -- 9. Retrospect.

Call number

1. JFE 19-8077

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-357) and index.

Author

1. Trafzer, Clifford E., author.

Title

1. Fighting invisible enemies : health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians / Clifford E. Trafzer.

Publisher

1. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-357) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1999

LCCN

1. 2018041248

ISBN

1. 9780806162867 (hardcover alkaline paper)
2. 0806162864 (hardcover alkaline paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 19-8077