Title African American alternative medicine : using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases / Eric J. Bailey

Published Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 159 pages) Contents The current status of alternative medicine. Alternative medicine in the United States -- Mainstream American alternative medicine. Alternative medicine and African Americans. African American alternative medicine -- Cultural historical review of African American alternative medicine. How to do applied medical anthropological fieldwork. Strategies for collecting qualitative alternative medicine data. Disease-focused alternative treatment practices: research including African Americans. Hypertension and alternative treatment therapies -- Cancer and alternative treatment therapies -- Diabetes mellitus and alternative treatment therapies -- Cerebrovascular disease (stroke) and alternative treatment therapies -- Mental health and alternative treatment therapies -- Conclusion: culture and alternative medicine Summary Annotation An introduction to the field of African American alternative medicine, highlighting African American traditional healthcare practices, new qualitative fieldwork data from African American alternative health practitioners, and specific cultural ethnomedical strategies for the African American population Annotation The author examines past and present traditional healthcare practices among African Americans from a research-based perspective. A cultural-historical review of the traditional African American alternative healthcare practices provides the framework for understanding current African American ethnomedical practices. New data from a variety of African American alternative health practitioners serving the community share their perspectives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject African Americans -- Health and hygiene. Alternative medicine. African Americans -- Diseases -- Alternative treatment Chronic diseases. Medicine, Preventive. Chronic Disease Complementary Therapies Preventive Medicine HEALTH & FITNESS -- Alternative Therapies. MEDICAL -- Healing. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healing. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Healing -- General. Medicine, Preventive Chronic diseases African Americans -- Health and hygiene Alternative medicine Form Electronic book LC no. 2002025203 ISBN 0313012857 9780313012853 9780897897471 0897897471 1280927879 9781280927874 9786610927876 6610927871

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