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Indigenous bodies, cells, and genes : biomedicalization and embodied resistance in Native American literature
Author
Title
Indigenous bodies, cells, and genes : biomedicalization and embodied resistance in Native American literature / Joanna Ziarkowska.
ISBN
0367478528
1000194051
1000194086
1000194116
1003036899
9780367478520
9781000194050
9781000194081
9781000194111
9781003036890
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 269 pages).
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Biographical / Historical Note
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Ziarkowska, Joanna. Indigenous bodies, cells, and genes. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Routledge research in transnational indigenous perspectives
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Virgin soil theory, boarding schools, and medical experimentation : a history of tuberculosis among Native Americans
Tuberculosis, biopower, and embodied resistance in Madonna Swan : a Lakota woman's story, as told through Mark S. Pierre and Louise Erdrich's LaRose
Developing indigenous models of diabetes : from genetic fatalism to community-based approaches
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
From blood memory to genetic memory, and the emergence of Native American DNA : a story of biocolonialism at the turn of the millennium
We remember our ancestors and their lives deep in our bodily cells : mapping history in space and genes in Linda Hogan's autobiographical writing
The traffic of cells and ideas : Heid E. Erdrich's biotechnological poetry
Biomedical psychiatry, Native American identity, and the politics of visibility in Elissa Washuta's My body is a book of rules.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Medicine in Literature
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