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Author:   Joanna Ziarkowska
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780367557683

ISBN 10:   0367557681
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   09 January 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"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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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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