African American Alternative Medicine: Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases

African American Alternative Medicine: Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases
ISBN-10
0897897471
ISBN-13
9780897897471
Category
Medical
Pages
158
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Greenwood Publishing Group
Author
Eric J. Bailey

Description

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.

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