The healthy ancestor : embodied inequality and the revitalization of native Hawaiian health / / Juliet McMullin

• Autore: McMullin Juliet Marie
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/6109969
• Soggetto topico: Medical anthropology - Hawaii; Public health - Hawaii; Traditional medicine - Hawaii; Hawaiians - Health and hygiene; Hawaiians - Medical care; Hawaiians - Ethnic identity; Human body - Social aspects - Hawaii
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: First published 2010 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Hawaiian Health: A Casualty of History; 2. Managing Identity, Context, and Methods; 3. Complicating Health-Seeking Practices; 4. Variations in Definitions of Health; 5. Remembering Ancestors: Food and Land; 6. Constituting the Hawaiian Body: Resisting and Reinterpreting Health and Control; Conclusion; References; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Native Americans, researchers increasingly worry, are disproportionately victims of epidemics and poor health because they "fail" to seek medical care, are "non-compliant" patients, or "lack immunity" enjoyed by the "mainstream" population. Challenging this dominant approach to indigenous health, Juliet McMullin shows how it masks more fundamental inequalities that become literally embodied in Native Americans, shifting blame from unequal social relations to biology, individual behavior, and cultural or personal deficiencies. Weaving a complex story of Native Hawai'ian health in its historical
• Titolo autorizzato: The healthy ancestor
• ISBN: 1-315-41832-0; 1-315-41833-9; 1-59874-742-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457083403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in critical medical anthropology.