The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai’ian Health (Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology)

by JulietMarieMcMullin (Author)

• New

  Library Binding
  2009

  $139.91

  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. This title shows how it masks fundamental inequalities that become literally embodied in Native Americans.