Secret doctors : ethnomedicine of African Americans / Wonda L. Fontenot.

  • Fontenot, Wonda L.
Date:
1994
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Westport, Conn. ; London : Bergin & Garvey, 1994.

Physical description

xxvi, 162 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Contributors

Notes

"This book ... began as my dissertation"--Pref. and acknowledgements.

Contents

Historic and contemporary Opelousas Territory -- African Americans and medicine: a historical perspective -- Secret doctors tell their stories -- Madame Neau and ethnopsychiatry -- African-American women and health care -- Religion, prayer narratives, and healing -- Ritual artifacts -- Medical ethnobotany of African Americans.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-157) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BW.U.6
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0897893549