Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes: Biomedicalization and Embodied Resistance in Native American Literature

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Introduction: Indigenizing biomedicalization: community, relationality, and embodied resistance in Native American literature
	Listing inspirations and influences
		Biomedicalization and biopolitics
		American Indian Literary Nationalism and Communitism
		Indigenous methodologies and relationality
		Indigenous bodies and embodied resistance
	Note on terminology
	Notes
Part I Tuberculosis
	1 Virgin soil theory, boarding schools, and medical experimentation: A history of tuberculosis among Native Americans
		TB: biomedical definitions
		TB in the United States
		TB in Indian Country
		Explaining TB with race
		“Education for extinction”: TB and boarding schools
		“People should not work in dirty dark or dusty places and should keep clean and eat only wholesome and nourishing food” ...
		Experimenting on Indigenous bodies? Thoracoplasty and the BCG vaccine
		TB in the twenty-first century
		Notes
	2 Tuberculosis, biopower, and embodied resistance in Madonna Swan: : A Lakota Woman’s Story, as told through Mark S. ...
		Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman’s Story, as told through Mark St. Pierre
			The body as a site of colonization and resurgence
		Educating minds, infecting bodies
		The stigma of diagnosis
		“The right to make live and to let die”: tuberculosis, Sioux San, and biopolitics
		TB as a trope of colonization
		Madonna and Lakota community’s embodied resistance
		Louise Erdrich’s LaRose and embodied resistance
		Tuberculosis in boarding schools
		“We rifle their graves, measure their skulls, and analyze their bones”
		Practicing embodied resistance
		Notes
Part II Diabetes
	3 Developing Indigenous models of diabetes: From genetic fatalism to community-based approaches
		Diabetes and Native Americans
		Diabetes and the geneticization of Native Americans
		Your genes are not your destiny
		Diabetes, settler colonialism, and the loss of traditional foodways
		Indigenous frameworks for understanding diabetes
		Healing, storytelling, and community-based prevention and treatment programs
		Notes
	4 Beyond the biomedical model of diabetes: Settler colonialism, traditional foodways, and historical trauma in Sherman ...
		Dreaming diabetic dreams
		Diabetes, food sovereignty, and the problem with frybread power
		Diabetes and historical trauma: boarding school experience
		Healing as an ethics of relatedness
		Beyond the biomedical model
		Notes
Part III Blood and genes
	5 From blood memory to genetic memory, and the emergence of Native American DNA: A story of biocolonialism at the turn …
		N. Scott Momaday’s blood memory
		Blood and blood quantum in Native America
		From blood to genes to Native American DNA
		The story of the Kennewick Man
		The story of the Havasupai tribe
		What’s next? Native American and Indigenous studies meets science and technology studies
		Notes
	6 “We remember our ancestors and their lives deep in our bodily cells”: Mapping history in space and genes in Linda Hogan’s ...
		From blood memory to genes and DNA
		Native American history in bodies and maps
		Mapping sacred geography
		Transmitting history in blood and DNA
		Experiencing the past in the body, blood, and DNA
		Notes
Part IV Indigenizing biomedicalization
	7 The traffic of cells and ideas: Heid E. Erdrich’s biotechnological poetry
		Native science and Indigenous wisdom
		“DNA Tribes”: the emergence of Native American DNA
		Indigenous blood, bones, body parts, and American property rights
		What tribe are you? or the false promise of genetic testing
		“Cells shift purpose on purpose”: microchimerism, migration, and embodiment
		Embodied resistance at a cellular level
		Notes
	8 Biomedical psychiatry, Native American identity, and the politics of visibility in Elissa Washuta’s My Body Is a Book ...
		Biomedical psychiatry and psychiatric pharmacology
		Elissa Washuta’s My Body Is a Book of Rules: Native American identity and the bipolar disorder diagnosis
		296.62: problems with the biomedical model and questioning what it means to be bipolar
		Help yourself to the “bipolar buffet”
		Bipolar disorder and the stigma of mental illness
		Being Native and the politics of visibility revisited
		Why biomedical metaphors do not work
		Beyond biomedical metaphors
		Notes
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