Title Rationalizing epidemics : meanings and uses of American Indian mortality since 1600 / David S. Jones.

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Description	xii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-287) and index.
Summary	"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.
Contents	1. Expecting providence -- 2. Meanings of depopulation -- 3. Frontiers of smallpox -- 4. Using smallpox -- 5. Race to extinction -- 6. Impossible responsibilities -- 7. Pursuit of efficacy -- 8. Experiments at many farms.
Subject	Epidemieën.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Mortality -- History.
Subject	Indians, North American -- history. (DNLM)D007198Q000266
	Disease Outbreaks -- history. (DNLM)D004196Q000266
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Diseases -- Epidemiology -- History.
Subject	Indians of North America -- Mortality -- History.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples, North American -- history. (DNLM)D007198Q000266
Subject	Mortality. (DNLM)D009026
	Sterfte.
	Indians of North America -- Diseases -- Epidemiology -- History.
	Smallpox -- history. (DNLM)D012899Q000266
	Socioeconomic Factors. (DNLM)D012959
	Indianen.
	United States. (DNLM)D014481
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	Tuberculosis -- history. (DNLM)D014376Q000266
	15.85 history of America. (NL-LeOCL)07761190X
	Indians of North America -- Mortality. (OCoLC)fst00969857
Other Form:	Online version: Jones, David S. (David Shumway). Rationalizing epidemics. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2004 9780674039230 (OCoLC)449915343
ISBN	0674013050 (cloth)
	9780674013056 (cloth)

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