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PublisherNevada Humanities Committee

ISBN-101890591017

ISBN-139781890591014

eBay Product ID (ePID)574319

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Book TitleDonner Party Chronicles : a Day-By-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-1847

Number of Pages380 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 19th Century

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorFrank Mullen Jr.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight46.4 Oz

Item Length10.5 in

Item Width9.5 in

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Photographed byNewton, Marilyn

Table Of ContentI. THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH AND DISEASE. 1. Culture, Parental Attitudes, and Child Health in Rural Peru, Anne C. Larme. 2. Transforming Society, Transforming Medicine: Lay Medical Perceptions and Self-Medication Among Contemporary Koreans, June J. H. Lee. 3. Intrapsychic Autonomy and the Emotional Construction of Biocultural Illness: A Question of Balance, Mary Katharine Duffie. 4. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Filarial Disease in the Fiji Islands, Usha K. Prasad. 5. The Demographic, Cultural and Behavioral Contexts of Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries, Gabriel B. Fosu and Janardan Subedi. 6. Ecological and Macrolevel Influences on Illness in Northern Peru: Beyond the International Health Paradigm, Kathryn S. Oths. II. SOCIOPOLITICAL CONSTRAINTS IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE. 7. Inequalities in the Mexican National Health Care System: Problems in Managing Cancer in Southern Mexico, Linda M. Hunt. 8. Utilization and Cost of Maternal Child Health Services in Belize, Central America, Beth A. Macke and Sandra E. Paredez. 9. Hepatitis B in Taiwan and the United States: A Sociologic Analysis of Comparative Risk Factors and Efforts at Control, Shu-Fen Tseng and Richard E. Barrett. III. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. 10. Early Retirement and Normal Male Identity: Assessing an Aspect of Quality of Life after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Uta Gerhardt. 11. Oil Wells on Fire: A Study of Stress in Kuwait, Naheel S. Al-Nafisi, Rashed J. Al-Hamdan, Hayfa H. Ali, Philip M. Moody, and Jaafar Behbehani. 12. The Medical Dignity of the Individual: A Cultural Exploration, Eugene B. Gallagher. IV. THE THREAT OF AIDS. 13. AIDS as a Globalizing Panic, John O'Neill. 14. Social Factors and Knowledge of HIV/AIDS in Vietnam, Nhung Le and David R. Williams. 15. Sex, Condoms, and Risk of AIDS in Bangladesh, Steven Folmar and S. M. Nurul Alam. 16. Women and AIDS in Africa: A Critical Review, Dana Lear. V. EMERGING AREAS IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH. 17. A Role for Genetic Epidemiology in the Development of International Health Care Programs for SoilTransmitted Helminthiases, Sarah Williams-Blangero, John Blangero, and Janardan Subedi. 18. Domestic Violence Against Women: A Contemporary Issue in International Health, Ruth L. Fischbach and Elizabeth Donnelly.

SynopsisPublished to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Donner Party's travel across America, this text gives a day-by-day account of the struggle for survival as the Party travelled from Independence, Missouri to Stutter's Fort, California.