Published April, 2023
By Larry Floyd and Joseph H. Bates
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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In the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, this compelling history, based on extensive research and eyewitness testimony, offers valuable lessons for the present about community involvement in public health, the potential efficacy of public-private partnerships, and the importance of forward-thinking leadership in the battle to eradicate disease.

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Published February, 2023
By Todd E Harburn and Paul L. Hedren
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Tells the story of Doctor George Edwin Lord, the lone commissioned medical officer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Notable for its unique angle on Custer's last stand and for its depiction of frontier-era medicine, the book is above all a compelling portrait of the making of an army medical professional in mid-nineteenth-century America.

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Published January, 2021
By Cristina Rivera Garza and Laura Kanost
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Provides the first inside view of the workings of La Castaneda General Insane Asylum - a public mental health institution founded in Mexico City in 1910 only months before the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.

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Published September, 2020
By Bobette Perrone, Victoria Krueger and H. Henrietta Stockel
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians as they describe their healing paths.

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Published August, 2019
By Lynn Downey
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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In 1911 Dr Philip King Brown opened the Arequipa Sanatorium in Marin County. Together, Brown and his all-female staff gave new life to hundreds of working-class women suffering from tuberculosis in early-twentieth-century California. This book tells a vivid story of the sanatorium, Brown and his talented team of Progressive women.

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Published May, 2019
By Clifford E. Trafzer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Native Americans long resisted Western medicine - but had less power to resist Western diseases. As the Office of Indian Affairs entered the business of health and medicine, Native peoples reluctantly began to allow Western medicine into their communities. This book traces this transition in the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California.

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Published May, 2019
By Dr James Madison Dewolf, Todd E Harburn, Paul Andrew Hutton, James M Dewolf, Paul Hutton and James Madison DeWolf
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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In 1876 James Madison DeWolf accepted the assignment of contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry. Killed in the early stages of the Battle of Little Big Horn, he left behind an eyewitness account in his diary and correspondence. This is the first annotated edition of these rare accounts since 1958, and the most complete treatment to date.

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Published March, 2019
By Dr James Madison Dewolf, Todd E Harburn, Paul Andrew Hutton, James M Dewolf, Paul Hutton and James Madison DeWolf
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Presents an annotated edition of James Madison DeWolf's field diary. The diary includes an eyewitness account of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Todd Harburn bridges also provides a detailed biography of DeWolf as well as extensive editorial insight into his writings.

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Published March, 2019
By Jonathan Yahalom and Xavier E Cagigas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Provides an emotionally evocative, story-rich analysis of family caregiving for Oaxacan elders living with dementia. Based on his extensive research in a Zapotec community, Jonathan Yahalom presents the conflicted experience of providing care in a setting where illness is steeped in stigma and locals are concerned about social cohesion.

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Published March, 2019
By Jonathan Yahalom and Xavier E Cagigas
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Provides an emotionally evocative, story-rich analysis of family caregiving for Oaxacan elders living with dementia. Based on his extensive research in a Zapotec community, Jonathan Yahalom presents the conflicted experience of providing care in a setting where illness is steeped in stigma and locals are concerned about social cohesion.

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