'If You Knew the Conditions' [[electronic resource] ] : A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955
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| Autore: |
Dejong David N
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| Titolo: |
'If You Knew the Conditions' [[electronic resource] ] : A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Lexington Books, 1955 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (199 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1089/97073 |
| 362.108997073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | If You Knew the Conditions |
| ISBN: | 0-7391-3038-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465670103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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