Title: Medicine that walks
Description: In this seminal work, the author takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by European newcomers and that Aboriginal people therefore surrendered their spirituality to Christianity. Biological invasion, Lux argues, was accompanied by military, cultural, and economic invasions, which, combined with the loss of the bison herds and forced settlement on reserves, led to population decline. The diseases killing the Plains people were not contagious epidemics but the grinding diseases of poverty, malnutrition, and overcrowding.
Subjects: Health and hygiene, Government relations, Indians of North America, Medical care, Medicine, Social conditions, History, Social Security, Social Services & Welfare, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Indians of north america, health and hygiene, Indians of north america, medicine, Indians of north america, social conditions, Indians of north america, government relations, Indigenous Health Services, North American Indians, History, 20th Century, History, 19th Century
Places: Prairie Provinces