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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.4 | The History Cooperative

White Man's Medicine: Government Doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955. By Robert A. Trennert. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. xii, 290 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8263-1839-8.)

Beginning in 1863 at Bosque Redondo in New Mexico Territory and continuing to 1955 on the Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona, first the United States Army and then the Bureau of Indian Affairs provided Western-style medical care for the Navajo people, or the Diné. In this extensively researched monograph, Robert A. Trennert tells how government doctors during the period imposed "rational" medicine upon the Diné, and with what consequences. It is a depressing story of failed good intentions and cultural misunderstandings that were terminated only when the United States Public Health Service assumed responsibility for Navajo medical care in 1955. . . .

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