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American Indian politics and the American political system by Wilkins, David E. (David Eugene), 1954-

Contents: “…A Tour of Indian Peoples and Indian Lands -- Indian Peoples Are Nations, Not Minorities -- Actors in Indian Politics -- A History of Federal Indian Policy -- Indigenous Governments: Past, Present, and Future -- Tribal Political Economy -- Indian Political Participation: Patriotism, Suffrage, and Partisanship -- Indian Interest Group Activity and Activism -- Indians, Images, and the Media -- Indigenous Nations and the American Political System.…”
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The greatest benefit to mankind : a medical history of humanity by Porter, Roy, 1946-2002

Contents: “…Introduction -- The roots of medicine -- Antiquity -- Medicine and faith -- The medieval West -- Indian medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Renaissance -- The new science -- Enlightenment -- Scientific medicine in the nineteenth century -- Nineteenth-century medical care -- Public medicine -- From Pasteur to penicillin -- Tropical medicine, world diseases -- Psychiatry -- Medical research -- Clinical science -- Surgery -- Medicine, state and society -- Medicine and the people -- The past, the present and the future.…”

Disease and medicine in world history by Watts, S. J. (Sheldon J.)

Contents: “…Sickness and health, a global concern -- Before the advent of acute epidemic diseases : pharaonic Egypt and the preconquest New World : extinct societies -- Pluralism in ancient Greece -- The evolution of medical systems in the Middle East c. 632 CE to modern times -- Health and disease on the Indian subcontinent before 1869 -- Medicine and disease in China : concepts and practices from c. 1900 BCE to 1840 CE -- The globalization of disease after 1450 -- Medicine and disease in the West, 1054-1840 -- The birth of modern scientific medicine : the German lands contrasted with the United Kingdom and the British in India -- Health and medicine in the world, 1940 to the present.…”