| Description |
393 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
My guardian spirits / Ama R. Saran -- Cracking the skull, mending the soul : Sonia Sanchez's role as teacher/healer/poet / Frenzella Elaine De Lancey -- Madame Neau : the practice of ethno-psychiatry in rural Louisiana / Wonda Lee Fontenot -- Perceptions of discrimination, psycho-social functioning and physical symptoms of African-American women / Carol M. Cummings, Adrienne M. Robinson, and Gretchen E. Lopez -- Older women of the project : the socio-medical consequences of urban change / Linda Dumas -- Cognitive coping strategies among the mothers of children with sickle cell disease / Shirley A. Hill -- Health care decision making among Cambodian refugee women / Barbara Frye -- Mind and body : revising approaches to the analysis of curanderismo / Francoise Verges -- Images of health : perceptions of the urban American-Indian women / Denis Drevdahl -- Visiting the women and neighborhood of my past / Gregoria Rodriguez. |
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Mary Petersen : a life of healing and renewal / Joanne B. Mulcahy, with Mary Petersen -- Homesickness, illness and death : Native-American girls in government boarding schools / Brenda Child --Managing on their own : ailing Black women in Philadelphia and Charleston, 1870 to 1918 / Priscilla Ferguson Clement -- Empowered caretakers : a historical perspective on the roles of granny midwives in rural Alabama / Sheila P. Davis and Cora A. Ingram -- Childbirth, lay institution building, and health policy : the Traditional Childbearing Group, Inc., of Boston in a historical context / Gloria Waite -- Nutrition, breastfeeding and ethnicity : understanding maternal and child health beliefs among new-wave immigrants / Caroline Westbrook Arnold. |
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Breast cancer, breast self-examination, and African-American women / Teresa C. Jacob, Leslie E. Spieth, and Nolan E. Penn --Resignation and resourcefulness : older Hispanic women's responses to breast cancer / Michelle Saint-Germain and Alice Longman -- Cancer in the family / Lois Lyles -- Battered women of color in public health care systems : racism, sexism, and violence / Beth E. Richie and Valli Kanuha -- Barriers to birth control use among Hispanic teenagers : providers' perspectives / Katherine Fennelly -- Living with the threat of AIDS : perceptions of health and risk among African-American women IV drug users / Diane K. Lewis -- Poverty, drug use, and AIDS : converging issues in the life stories of women in Harlem / Michael C. Clatts -- Latinas and HIV infection/AIDS : reflections on impacts, dilemmas, and struggles / Gloria J. Romero, Lourdes Arguelles, and Anne M. Rivero -- The use of women's culture in AIDS outreach / Mary Romero. |
| Subject |
Minority women -- Medical care -- Social aspects
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Minority women -- Health and hygiene -- Social aspects
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| Added Author |
Bair, Barbara, 1955-
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Cayleff, Susan E., 1954-
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| ISBN |
0814323014 (alk. paper) |
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0814323022 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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