Native American Health: History, Sovereignty, Resistance
AMST 325
Spring 2017
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What are the major the health disparities, challenges, and developments facing Native Americans and their communities across the United States? This seminar provides a historical overview of topics in health and healthcare pertaining to Native Americans during the 19th-21st centuries. The course is organized thematically, providing an overview of changing sources of morbidity and mortality among Native peoples in the U.S. over the past two centuries and the policies and practices that have been undertaken to limit disease and improve health. Individual sessions focus on critical issues and episodes that shaped this historical development. Some sessions center on significant diseases or health issues, such as diabetes or mental health; other sessions examine public health and community initiatives, forms of resistance, or modes of strategic intervention, such as new health legislation, the development of community-controlled health services, or transnational alliance-building. Overall, the course is premised on the idea that health is a social and political condition as much as a scientific and medical one. It therefore seeks to understand changes and developments in the history of Native American health, healthcare, and health policy in the context of concomitant social and political changes and against a backdrop of settler colonialism in the U.S. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Readings include:
Laurie B. Green (et al), PRECARIOUS PRESCRIPTIONS: CONTESTED HISTORIES OF RACE AND HEALTH IN NORTH AMERICA
Warwick Anderson, COLONIAL PATHOLOGIES: AMERICAN TROPICAL MEDICINE, RACE, AND HYGIENE IN THE PHILIPPINES
Mary Ellen Kelm, COLONIZING BODIES: ABORIGINAL HEALTH AND HEALING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
Cathleen Cahill, FEDERAL FATHERS & MOTHERS: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE, 1869-1933
David DeJong, "IF YOU KNEW THE CONDITIONS": A CHRONICLE OF THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE 1908-1955
Robert Trennart, WHITE MAN'S MEDICINE: GOVERNMENT DOCTORS AND THE NAVAJO, 1863-1955
Irene Vernon, KILLING US QUIETLY: NATIVE AMERICANS AND HIV/AIDS
Barbara Gurr, REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: THE POLITICS OF HEALTH CARE FOR NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN
William Steeler, IMPROVING AMERICAN INDIAN HEALTH CARE: THE WESTERN CHEROKEE EXPERIENCE
C. TRAFZER, MEDICINE WAYS: DISEASE, HEALTH, AND SURVIVAL AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS
Ethan Nebelkopf (ed), HEALING AND MENTAL HEALTH FOR NATIVE AMERICANS: SPEAKING IN RED
Dian Million, THERAPEUTIC NATIONS: HEALING IN AN AGE OF INDIGENOUS HUMAN RIGHTS
Steven Epstein, INCLUSION: THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE IN MEDICAL RESEARCH
Linda Tuhiwai Smith, DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES: RESEARCH AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Assignments include: regular Moodle posts on the course readings, film screenings, etc; active class participation including, on one or two occasions, students will be responsible for raising questions to stimulate or guide class discussion; short paper (7-10pp); research proposal and paper (20-25pp). |
| Instructor(s): John,Maria Katherine Times: ..T.... 07:10PM-10:00PM; Location: CAMS 3; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
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