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‘If You Knew the Conditions’: A Chronicle of the Indian Medical Service and American Indian Health Care, 1908-1955

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After their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. Even as america Indian Service (Bureau of Indian Affairs) provided some services and products prior to 1908, it was once not until then that the Indian Medical Service was once established for the purpose of providing services and products to American Indians. Born in an era of assimilation and myths of vanishing Indians, the Indian Medical Service provided emergency and curative care with little forethought of preventive medicine. DeJong argues that the U.S. Congress provided little more than basic, curative remedy, and that this Congressional parsimony is reflected in the services and products (or lack thereof) provided by the Indian Medical Service. DeJong considers the mediocre results of the Indian Medical Service from a cultural viewpoint. He argues that, moderately than bearing in mind a social conservation model of medicine, the Indian Service focused on curative medicine from a strictly Western viewpoint. This failure to appreciate the unique American Indian cultural norms and values associated with health and well-being led to a resistance from American Indians which seemingly justified parsimonious Congressional appropriations and initiated a cycle of benign neglect. ‘If You Knew the Conditions’ examines the have an effect on of the long-standing Congressional mandate of cultural assimilation, combined with the Congressional desire to abolish the Indian Service, at the degree and extent of disease in Indian Country.

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