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

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Part I - The Current Status of Alternative Medicine 1
• Chapter 1 - Alternative Medicine in the United States 3
• Chapter 2 - Mainstream American Alternative Medicine 15
• Part II - Alternative Medicine and African Americans 31
• Chapter 3 - African American Alternative Medicine 33
• Chapter 4 - Cultural Historical Review of African American Alternative Medicine 51
• Part III - How to Do Applied Medical Anthropological Fieldwork 61
• Chapter 5 - Strategies for Collecting Qualitative Alternative Medicine Data 63
• Part IV - Disease-Focused Alternative Treatment Practices: Research Including African Americans 85
• Chapter 6 - Hypertension and Alternative Treatment Therapies 87
• Chapter 7 - Cancer and Alternative Treatment Therapies 99
• Chapter 8 - Diabetes Mellitus and Alternative Treatment Therapies 111

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Part I - The Current Status of Alternative Medicine 1
• Chapter 1 - Alternative Medicine in the United States 3
• Chapter 2 - Mainstream American Alternative Medicine 15
• Part II - Alternative Medicine and African Americans 31
• Chapter 3 - African American Alternative Medicine 33
• Chapter 4 - Cultural Historical Review of African American Alternative Medicine 51
• Part III - How to Do Applied Medical Anthropological Fieldwork 61
• Chapter 5 - Strategies for Collecting Qualitative Alternative Medicine Data 63
• Part IV - Disease-Focused Alternative Treatment Practices: Research Including African Americans 85
• Chapter 6 - Hypertension and Alternative Treatment Therapies 87
• Chapter 7 - Cancer and Alternative Treatment Therapies 99
• Chapter 8 - Diabetes Mellitus and Alternative Treatment Therapies 111
• Chapter 9 - Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke) and Alternative Treatment Therapies 121
• Bibliography 130
• Chapter 10 - Mental Health and Alternative Treatment Therapies 133
• Chapter 11 - Conclusion: Culture and Alternative Medicine 145
• Index 153
• About the Author 159