The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawaiian Health - Couverture rigide

McMullin, Juliet

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1598744992 ISBN 13 : 9781598744996

Editeur : Left Coast Press Inc, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Juliet Marie McMullin is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California Riverside.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Left Coast Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1598744992
• ISBN 13: 9781598744996
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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