Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600 Reviews

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Release: 2004-05-30
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0674013050
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native populations. Century after century, they tried to understand the causes of epidemics, the vulnerability of American Indians, and the persistence of health disparities. They confronted their own responsibility for the epidemics, accepted the obligation to intervene, and imposed social and medical reforms to improve conditions. In Rationalizing Epidemics, David Jones examines crucial episodes in this history: Puritan responses to Indian depopulation in the seventeenth century; attempts to spread or prevent smallpox on the Western frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; tuberculosis campaigns on the Sioux reservations from 1870 until 1910; and programs to test new antibiotics and implement modern medicine on the Navajo reservation in the 1950s. These encounters were always complex. Colonists, traders, physicians, and bureaucrats of Download Rationalizing Epidemics for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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