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Free download PRETITLE 'If You Knew the Conditions': A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955 POSTTITLE from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link (1 reviews) Author: David H. DeJong ISBN : 9780739124451 New from $47.99 Format: PDFAfter their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. While the United States Indian Service (Bureau of Indian Affairs) provided some services prior to 1908, it was not until then that the Indian Medical Service was established for the purpose of providing services to American Indians. Born in an era of assimilation and myths of vanishing Indians, the Indian Medical Service provided emergency and curative care with little forethought of preventive medicine. DeJong argues that the U.S. Congress provided little more than basic, curative treatment, and that this Congressional parsimony is reflected in the services (or lack thereof) provided by the Indian Medical Service.
DeJong considers the mediocre results of the Indian Medical Service from a cultural perspective. He argues that, rather than considering a social conservation model of medicine, the Indian Service focused on curative medicine from a strictly Western perspective. This failure to appreciate the unique American Indian cultural norms and values associated with health and well-being led to a resistance from American Indians which seemingly justified parsimonious Congressional appropriations and initiated a cycle of benign neglect. "If You Knew the Conditions" examines the impact of the long-standing Congressional mandate of cultural assimilation, combined with the Congressional desire to abolish the Indian Service, on the degree and extent of disease in Indian Country.
Direct download links available for PRETITLE 'If You Knew the Conditions': A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955 POSTTITLE DeJong considers the mediocre results of the Indian Medical Service from a cultural perspective. He argues that, rather than considering a social conservation model of medicine, the Indian Service focused on curative medicine from a strictly Western perspective. This failure to appreciate the unique American Indian cultural norms and values associated with health and well-being led to a resistance from American Indians which seemingly justified parsimonious Congressional appropriations and initiated a cycle of benign neglect. "If You Knew the Conditions" examines the impact of the long-standing Congressional mandate of cultural assimilation, combined with the Congressional desire to abolish the Indian Service, on the degree and extent of disease in Indian Country.
- Hardcover: 198 pages
- Publisher: Lexington Books; 1 edition (August 22, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0739124455
- ISBN-13: 978-0739124451
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Our interest in the subject came from research about an African American physician named Dr. Fred A. Stokes who worked on the Cheyenne Reservation in South Dakota for the Indian Health Service from 1907-1915. The material in this book provided excellentl background on the plight of the health of the American Indian and the challenges. Sadly for us, there was little information about the Cheyennes in South Dakota and the background nationally seemed to focus on the southwest where the problems were more acute. A really excellent book to introduce a researcher to the health problems facing the Indians and those working with them, as well as the political challenges for leaders in Washington in handling the American Indian situation.FBy William D. Fisher
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