Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082632441X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Chronicling the advent of so-called "western" or "scientific" medicine in the modern era, including the development of indigenous healing traditions and such new institutions as the Native American Church, Davies shows the skill and adaptability of Diné in accepting the services of physicians while keeping the work of traditional healers among their health-care options. The history of Western medical care on Navajo reservations in the twentieth century, however, demonstrates that the incorporation of indigenous healing practices did not come without struggle. At the same time, non-Native medical providers, missionaries, and U. "The Diné," one of Davies' informants states, "are learning to function in two different worlds," and, in so doing, are intent on seeking the best of both.. Davies also explores contemporaneous Navajo critiques of both "high-tech" and traditional health-care modes, detailing Navajo battles to integrate their healing practices into government and private health-care systems.The will of the Diné people to achieve self-determination in health care--and, indeed, to view health and healing in a broad and interactive context--has been so resolute that both tribal leadership and federal officials have been forced to acknowledge and contend with the Diné insistence on shaping Western medicine to fit thei
Documents the development of complementary, dual Western and Dine healing traditions and services "Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century" documents the development of complementary, dual Western and Dine healing traditions and services among the Navajo since World War II. The history is not always harmonious, but a gradual integration of the two main healing philosophies emerges. Author and history professor Davies highlights the determination and flexibility of Dine in "accepting the services of [Western] physicians while keeping the work of traditional healers among. A well-researched scholarly study This is a well-written study of a topic that really hasn't been dealt with in such thorough detail before. In fact, this is the only book I've been able to find anywhere about Navajo health care after World War II. I was impressed by the author's extensive use of interviews with the Navajos themselves for his research, in addition to the voluminous written records he used. It's only fitting, given the Navajos' rich oral tradition, that a study of their culture should draw heavily on firsthan. Greater understanding between cultures A Customer I found this book to be helpful in understanding cultural differences not just between Western society and Navajos but other cultures as well. As someone who works as a volunteer with refugees from several different countries, the information in the book has given me a greater incentive to be more tolerant and understanding with the reservations that people of other backgrounds have to some of our medical practices and government procedures. I especially enjoyed the anecdotes collected by th
Davies teaches Navajo History and other classes at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico, located just east of the Navajo Nation. He went on to earn a Ph.D. Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he earned his B.A. Wade Davies is a professor of history, specializing in Navajo, American Indian, and modern United States History. in History and Political Science from Indiana State University in Bloomington in 1991. . Currently, Dr. in history from Arizona State
"Davies deserves high marks for this study. He is well grounded in the secondary literature and primary sources. It is detailed and straightforward. Davies paints, in broad strokes, the contours of one nation's interaction with medicine as a colonizing and, potentially, decolonizing force." . We need texts like this to provide entry points to further analysis. He organizes his material skillfully and writes with clarity, focus, and nuance.""This book provides an important overview of the last one hundred years of Navajo government interaction in the field of health