This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. It will appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.
This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. It will appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.
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Routledge Research in Transnational Indigenous Perspectives
Joanna Ziarkowska is a Native American Studies scholar at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland, where she teaches courses devoted to Native American literature, Literature and Medicine, and Film Studies.
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Introduction - Indigenizing biomedicalization: community, relationality, and embodied resistance in Native American literature Part I: TUBERCULOSIS Chapter 1: Virgin soil theory, boarding schools, and medical experimentation: a history of tuberculosis among Native Americans Chapter 2: Tuberculosis, biopower, and embodied resistance in Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story, as told through Mark S. Pierre and Louise Erdrich's LaRose Part II: DIABETES Chapter 3: Developing Indigenous models of diabetes: from genetic fatalism to community-based approaches Chapter 4: Beyond the biomedical model of diabetes: settler colonialism, traditional foodways, and historical trauma in Sherman Alexie's selected works and LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story Part III: BLOOD AND GENES Chapter 5: From blood memory to genetic memory, and the emergence of Native American DNA: a story of biocolonialism at the turn of the millennium Chapter 6: "We remember our ancestors and their lives deep in our bodily cells": mapping history in space and genes in Linda Hogan's autobiographical writing Part IV: INDIGENIZING BIOMEDICALIZATION Chapter 7: The traffic of cells and ideas: Heid E. Erdrich's biotechnological poetry Chapter 8: Biomedical psychiatry, Native American identity, and the politics of visibility in Elissa Washuta's My Body Is a Book of Rules Coda
Introduction - Indigenizing biomedicalization: community, relationality, and embodied resistance in Native American literature Part I: TUBERCULOSIS Chapter 1: Virgin soil theory, boarding schools, and medical experimentation: a history of tuberculosis among Native Americans Chapter 2: Tuberculosis, biopower, and embodied resistance in Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story, as told through Mark S. Pierre and Louise Erdrich's LaRose Part II: DIABETES Chapter 3: Developing Indigenous models of diabetes: from genetic fatalism to community-based approaches Chapter 4: Beyond the biomedical model of diabetes: settler colonialism, traditional foodways, and historical trauma in Sherman Alexie's selected works and LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story Part III: BLOOD AND GENES Chapter 5: From blood memory to genetic memory, and the emergence of Native American DNA: a story of biocolonialism at the turn of the millennium Chapter 6: "We remember our ancestors and their lives deep in our bodily cells": mapping history in space and genes in Linda Hogan's autobiographical writing Part IV: INDIGENIZING BIOMEDICALIZATION Chapter 7: The traffic of cells and ideas: Heid E. Erdrich's biotechnological poetry Chapter 8: Biomedical psychiatry, Native American identity, and the politics of visibility in Elissa Washuta's My Body Is a Book of Rules Coda
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