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

Publication Info.	Westport, Conn. : Bergin and Garvey, [2002]
	©2002

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 159 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
Subject	African Americans -- Health and hygiene.
	Alternative medicine.
	African Americans -- Diseases -- Alternative treatment.
	Chronic Disease.
	Black or African American.
	Complementary Therapies.
	Preventive Medicine.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Alternative Therapies.
	MEDICAL -- Healing.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healing.
	BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Healing -- General.
	African Americans -- Diseases. (OCoLC)fst00799597
	African Americans -- Health and hygiene. (OCoLC)fst00799620
	Alternative medicine. (OCoLC)fst00806153
	Chronic diseases -- Alternative treatment. (OCoLC)fst00860074
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form:	Print version: Bailey, Eric J., 1958- African American alternative medicine. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, ©2002 0897897471 (DLC) 2002025203 (OCoLC)49415665
ISBN	0313012857 (electronic bk.)
	9780313012853 (electronic bk.)

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