Fighting invisible enemies : health and medical transitions among southern California Indians /

Traces the transition as Western medicine was gradually incorporated into Indian medical practices among inhabitants of the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Trafzer, Clifford E. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Indians of North America > Medicine > California, Southern > History > 19th century. Indians of North America > Medicine > California, Southern > History > 20th century. Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > California, Southern > History > 19th century. Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > California, Southern > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Spiritual healing, staying sickness, and shamanism
2. Invisible enemies of the early twentieth century
3. Investigating invisible enemies and health care
4. Indians and the Indian Medical Service
5. Indians, nurses, and advancing health care
6. Coughing blood and fighting tuberculosis
7. Killing an invisible enemy
8. Transitions
9. Retrospect.