Indigenous bodies, cells, and genes : biomedicalization and embodied resistance in Native American literature / Joanna Ziarkowska.
"This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes indigenous (and non-Western) epistemologies and instead...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via ProQuest) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
|
| Series: | Routledge research in transnational indigenous perspectives.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Virgin soil theory, boarding schools, and medical experimentation : a history of tuberculosis among Native Americans
- Tuberculosis, biopower, and embodied resistance in Madonna Swan : a Lakota woman's story, as told through Mark S. Pierre and Louise Erdrich's LaRose
- Developing indigenous models of diabetes : from genetic fatalism to community-based approaches
- 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
- From blood memory to genetic memory, and the emergence of Native American DNA : a story of biocolonialism at the turn of the millennium
- "We remember our ancestors and their lives deep in our bodily cells" : mapping history in space and genes in Linda Hogan's autobiographical writing
- The traffic of cells and ideas : Heid E. Erdrich's biotechnological poetry
- Biomedical psychiatry, Native American identity, and the politics of visibility in Elissa Washuta's My body is a book of rules.