Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes

Name: Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and GenesBiomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature\nAuthor(s): Joanna Ziarkowska\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367478520, 978-0367478520\nSynopsis\nThis book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. \n\nNative 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 book covers tuberculosis and diabetes epidemics, the emergence of Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnology, and the problematics of a.