Medicine That Walks - Disease, Medicine, and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940

Challenging the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with European disease, Lux argues that the diseases killing the Plains people were not contagious epidemics but grinding poverty, malnutrition, and overcrowding.

About the author

Maureen K. Lux is an associate professor in the Department of History at Brock University.

Summary

Challenging the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with European disease, Lux argues that the diseases killing the Plains people were not contagious epidemics but grinding poverty, malnutrition, and overcrowding.

Product details

• Authors: Maureen Lux, Maureen K. Lux
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780802082954
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-8295-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 224 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 436 g
• Series: Heritage; HERITAGE
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kanada, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Diätetik und Ernährung, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte