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Book Review
Canada and the United States
| Wade Davies. Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 248. $39.95.
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| In 1997, Jones Benally, a Navajo healer, joined the payroll of the United States Indian Health Service. For most of the past hundred years, this would have seemed impossible, even undesirable. Throughout the indigenous world, Western bio-medicine has been a tool of colonization, intent on the eradication of Aboriginal healing practices and unwilling to share power with any traditions other than its own. That today Navajo people are able legally to utilize a broad therapeutic range speaks to the changing nature of medical interaction in the Fourth World. Getting to this place of legitimated medical pluralism is the thrust of Wade Davies's book. |
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