Full Description
Examining the inequities that continue to impede health equity and those who champion it, this book advocates a new framework for global health and wellness based on Indigenous American psychology and culture.
Throughout history, intergenerational detriments to health, including colonialism, environmental degradation, poverty, racism, unrestrained materialism, and violence, have impeded efforts to advance global health equity. The COVID-19 pandemic has only capitalized on these inequities and exposed considerable weaknesses in addressing collective, global health concerns.
Using an Indigenous American framework, this book promotes a new understanding of how to reclaim and sustain health equity. An Indigenous paradigm views the natural world as inextricably connected and envisions a holistic model of health linked to egalitarian relationships with others and the environment. This book presents students and practitioners with a new method of addressing health equity—one which does not operate under the same cultural assumptions that created widespread inequities in the first place.
Contents
Introduction
1. Redefining Sickness and Wellness from an Indigenous Perspective
2. Indigenous Bioethics: A Roadmap to Global Health Equity
3. Health Risks from Planetary Environmental Unwellness
4. Hierarchies, Inequities, and Unwellness
5. Societies of Conflict: Relational Psychopathology as Health Threats
6. Colonial Materialism and Unwellness
7. Immediacy: How the Conceptualization of Time Impacts Health and Wellness
8. Planetary Wellness as a Precondition for Human Wellness
9. Reconceptualizing Leadership to Advance Health Equity
10. Dethroning Colonial Materialism—Disentangling Colonial Economics from Health Policy
11. Moving Healthcare Beyond a Model of Reductionism and Immediacy
12. Decolonization as the Path to Health Equity and Wellness
13. A Model for Sustainable Wellness
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
