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Article: Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Activist
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S HEALTH BOOK, WITHIN THE SACRED CIRCLE Edited by Charon Asetoyer 2003; Indigenous Women's Press (www.nativeshop.org or 605-487-7072), Lake Andes, S.D. 323 pages; $32.95
The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center presents this book to encourage Native women to take charge of their own health, and to offer all women a comprehensive new vision of health care choices and information. This benchmark publication weaves the body, family and environment into a holistic unit to describe and evaluate Native remedies as well as mainstream medicine and treatments. The authors use a collective approach to cover a panoply of women's health ...