Keepers of the Central Fire: Issues in Ecology for Indigenous PeoplesJones and Bartlett, 1999 - 250 pages The health of Native Americans is intimately tied to the health of the environment. Yet abuses of land, water, and air continue to compromise the health of native people and their land rights. This fascinating book explores this intimate relationship between people and the land, and environment and health. Here is an important message for health care providers, ecologists, and those who attempt to live their lives in harmony with the earth. |
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... human and the environmental , she suggests further that these energy fields are in continuous process as open systems continually ex- changing energy with one another ( Dailey , Maupin , Satterly , Schnell , & Wallace , 1989 ) ...
... human and the environmental , she suggests further that these energy fields are in continuous process as open systems continually ex- changing energy with one another ( Dailey , Maupin , Satterly , Schnell , & Wallace , 1989 ) ...
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... human beings . It must be respected as a means to human ends ( Chessworth , 1996 ) . It is a vision that allows for technology and technological developments to solve immediate problems . It is a vision that exalts one species , Homo ...
... human beings . It must be respected as a means to human ends ( Chessworth , 1996 ) . It is a vision that allows for technology and technological developments to solve immediate problems . It is a vision that exalts one species , Homo ...
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... Human Genome Project , initiated by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health in 1987 , is a multidisciplinary effort to understand the basis of human heredity . In the worldview of Western medicine , the focus of ...
... Human Genome Project , initiated by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health in 1987 , is a multidisciplinary effort to understand the basis of human heredity . In the worldview of Western medicine , the focus of ...
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