Indigenous bodies, cells, and genes : biomedicalization and embodied resistance in Native American literature /
"This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes indigenous (and non-Western) epistemologies and instead...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2021
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| Series: | Routledge research in transnational indigenous perspectives.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes indigenous (and non-Western) epistemologies and instead draw attention to how illness, healing, treatment, and genetic research are socially constructed and dependent on inherently racialist thinking. This volume highlights how interventions into the hegemony of biomedicine are vigorously addressed in Native American literature. The chapters cover tuberculosis and diabetes epidemics, the emergence of Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnology and the problematics of a biomedical model of psychiatry. They analyze work by writers including Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie and LeAnne Howe, Kim TallBear, Linda Hogan, Heid Erdrich, Elissa Washuta, and Frances Washburn. The book will appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 269 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003036890 1003036899 9780367478520 0367478528 9781000194111 1000194116 1000194051 9781000194081 1000194086 9781000194050 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | 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. |
