Healing Ways
Subtitle: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century
Edition: 1 Ed edition
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: August 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780826322760
Subjects: Health systems & services; Sociology, Social Studies; Traditional medicine & remedies; Navajo Indians; Medical Anthropology; Native Americans - Southwest; Rites and ceremonies; Social Science; Medical / Nursing; Medical; USA; Medical care; Health Care Delivery; History; Native American; Social Science / Native American Studies; Health Care Issues; Religion; Anthropology - Cultural; Health & Fitness; Native American Church of Nort
Description: Chronicles the advent of so-called "western" or "scientific" medicine in the modern era, and how Navajos adapted, but did not compromise their traditional healings ways.