Book
Healing ways: Navajo health care in the twentieth century
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque • Published In 2001 • Pages:
By: Davies, Wade.
Abstract
This is a very good history of the development of health care among the Navaho from traditional times to the end of the twentieth century. It chronicles the struggle and eventual accommodation between two complimentary forms of medical practice. Traditional practices served an important role in alleviating stress and anxiety associated with modern life, so much so that traditional medical schools were funded once it became evident that the old practitioners were dying out and the traditional apprenticeship method was no longer functioning. In 1997 the Indian Health Service hired its first native healer.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Physician
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 2003
- Field Date
- Not specified
- Coverage Date
- 1846-1999
- Coverage Place
- Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, United States
- Notes
- Wade Davies
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and index
- LCCN
- 2001001844
- LCSH
- Navajo Indians