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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465670103321

Autore

Dejong David N

Titolo

'If You Knew the Conditions' [[electronic resource] ] : A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, 1955

ISBN

0-7391-3038-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

362.1089/97073

362.108997073

Soggetti

Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 20th century

Indians of North America -- Medical care -- History -- 20th century

United States. Indian Health Service -- History -- 20th century

Indians of North America - History - Medical care - 20th century

Indians of North America - Health and hygiene - History - 20th century

Delivery of Health Care - history

Indians, North American - history

Socioeconomic Factors

Health Services, Indigenous

History, 20th Century

Electronic books.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgment; 1 ""If You Knew the Conditions""; 2 Organizing the Indian Medical Service; 3 Reform and Reorganization; 4 The Collier Years; 5 Trachoma and Tuberculosis; 6 A Justified Wave of Criticism?; 7 Into the Public Health Service; 8 ""If You Knew the Conditions""; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

After 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 tha