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- catalog abstract ""In Rationalizing Epidemics, David Jones examines crucial episodes in this history: Puritan responses to Indian depopulation in the seventeenth century; attempts to spread or prevent smallpox on the Western frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; tuberculosis campaigns on the Sioux reservations from 1870 until 1910; and programs to test new antibiotics and implement modern medicine on a Navajo reservation in the 1950s. These encounters were always complex. Colonists, traders, physicians, and bureaucrats often saw epidemics as markers of social injustice and worked to improve Indians' health. At the same time, they exploited epidemics to obtain land, fur, and research subjects, and used health disparities as grounds for "civilizing" American Indians. Revealing the economic and political patterns that link these cases, Jones provides insight into the dilemmas of modern health policy in which desire and action stand alongside indifference and inaction."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Meanings and uses of American Indian mortality since 1600".
- catalog contributor b13161779.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""In Rationalizing Epidemics, David Jones examines crucial episodes in this history: Puritan responses to Indian depopulation in the seventeenth century; attempts to spread or prevent smallpox on the Western frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; tuberculosis campaigns on the Sioux reservations from 1870 until 1910; and programs to test new antibiotics and implement modern medicine on a Navajo reservation in the 1950s. These encounters were always complex. Colonists, traders, physicians, and bureaucrats often saw epidemics as markers of social injustice and worked to improve Indians' health. At the same time, they exploited epidemics to obtain land, fur, and research subjects, and used health disparities as grounds for "civilizing" American Indians. Revealing the economic and political patterns that link these cases, Jones provides insight into the dilemmas of modern health policy in which desire and action stand alongside indifference and inaction."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 294 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Rationalizing epidemics.".
- catalog identifier "0674013050 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Rationalizing epidemics.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Rationalizing epidemics.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2004 G-630".
- catalog subject "614.4/2/08997 22".
- catalog subject "Disease Outbreaks United States History.".
- catalog subject "Disease Outbreaks history".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Diseases Epidemiology History.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Mortality History.".
- catalog subject "Indians, North American United States History.".
- catalog subject "Indians, North American history".
- catalog subject "Mortality United States.".
- catalog subject "Mortality".
- catalog subject "RA408.I49 J66 2004".
- catalog subject "Smallpox United States History.".
- catalog subject "Smallpox history".
- catalog subject "Socioeconomic Factors United States.".
- catalog subject "Socioeconomic Factors".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis United States History.".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis history".
- catalog subject "WC 590 J76ra 2004".
- catalog title "Meanings and uses of American Indian mortality since 1600".
- catalog title "Rationalizing epidemics : meanings and uses of American Indian mortality since 1600 / David S. Jones.".
- catalog type "text".