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"I choose life" : contemporary medical and religious practices in the Navajo world
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Investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Focusing on Navajo attitudes toward invasive procedures, reveals the ideological confl...
Investigates how Navajos navigate their medically and religiously pluralistic world while coping with illness. Focusing on Navajo attitudes toward invasive procedures, reveals the ideological conflicts experienced by Navajo patients and the reasons behind the choices they make to promote their own health and healing. From publisher description.
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- Creator
- Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]
- ©2008
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- xi, 380 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0806139412, 9780806139418, 0806139617, 9780806139616, 1615899502, 9781615899500
- OCLC
- ocn191732298
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-369) and index.
- Groundings -- Christianity, biomedicine, and the Native American church -- The politics and language of well-being -- Sources of pathosis -- The exchange of life substances -- Surgery and disposal of body parts -- Transplants -- Closing thoughts
Subjects
- Navajo Indians -- Medicine.
- Navajo Indians -- Religion.
- Surgery.
- Traditional medicine -- Southwest, New.
- Christianity and other religions -- Shamanism.
- Medicine -- Religious aspects.
- Indians of North America.
- Medicine, Traditional
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- Religion and Medicine
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- Indians, North American
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- General Surgery
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- surgery (health care function)
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