| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations |
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1. Expecting providence -- 2. Meanings of depopulation -- 3. Frontiers of smallpox -- 4. Using smallpox -- 5. Race to extinction -- 6. Impossible responsibilities -- 7. Pursuit of efficacy -- 8. Experiments at many farms |
| Summary |
"In Rationalizing Epidemics, David Jones examines crucial episodes in this history: Puritan responses to Indian depopulation in the seventeenth century; attempts to spread or prevent smallpox on the Western frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; tuberculosis campaigns on the Sioux reservations from 1870 until 1910; and programs to test new antibiotics and implement modern medicine on a Navajo reservation in the 1950s. These encounters were always complex. Colonists, traders, physicians, and bureaucrats often saw epidemics as markers of social injustice and worked to improve Indians' health. At the same time, they exploited epidemics to obtain land, fur, and research subjects, and used health disparities as grounds for "civilizing" American Indians. Revealing the economic and political patterns that link these cases, Jones provides insight into the dilemmas of modern health policy in which desire and action stand alongside indifference and inaction."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (DeGruyter, viewed on February 9, 2023) |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Indians of North America -- Mortality -- History
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Indians of North America -- Diseases -- Epidemiology -- History
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Mortality.
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Indians of North America -- Diseases -- History
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Epidemics -- United States -- History
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Disease Outbreaks -- history
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Indians, North American -- history
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Smallpox -- history
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Mortality
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Tuberculosis -- history
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mortality.
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MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
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MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
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HISTORY -- Native American.
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Mortality
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Indians of North America -- Diseases
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Epidemics
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Indians of North America -- Mortality
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Indianen.
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Sterfte.
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Epidemieën.
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United States |
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003067538 |
| ISBN |
9780674039230 |
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0674039238 |
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9780674013056 |
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0674013050 |
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