Power and Personhood: Health Care Decision-Making in a Plains Indian Community
Theses
Author/Creator
Deborah Bernsten
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 2001.
Examines the use of Pueblo knowledge along side Western medicine to better compliment each other and serve Indigenous communities.
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