Medicine that walks
disease, medicine and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940
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Author
Publication
2001 - University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario
Language
English
Word Count
75,000 words, Guess
Page Count
300 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemedicinethatwalk0000luxm
- ISBN-100802047289
- ISBN-100802082955
- ISBN-139780802047281
- ISBN-139780802082954
and 7 more
- LibraryThing2419747
- Goodreads4101276
- Library of Congress Control Number2001275130
- OCLC Control Number46616036
- Better World Books9780802082954
- Better World Books9780802047281
- Open LibraryOL3968825M
Classifications
- DDC362.1/089/970712
- LCCRA448.5.I5 L89 2001
- LCCRA412.5.C3
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.
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