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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910953451703321
• Autore: Bailey Eric J. <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , c2002; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• ISBN: 9798400607493; 9786610927876; 9781280927874; 1280927879; 9780313012853; 0313012857
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (162 p.)
• Disciplina: 615.5/089/96073
• Soggetti: African Americans - Health and hygiene; Alternative medicine - United States; African Americans - Diseases; Chronic diseases - Alternative treatment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- African American Alternative Medicine -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Current Status of Alternative Medicine -- Chapter 1 Alternative Medicine in the United States -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Americans' Use of Alternative Treatment Therapies -- African Americans' Use of Alternative Treatment Therapies -- GOVERNMENT'S INTEREST IN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE -- Research -- Research Training -- Communications -- MY RESEARCH INTEREST IN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE -- CONCLUSION -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Chapter 2 Mainstream American Alternative Medicine -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM -- RECENT STUDIES ON MAINSTREAM ; ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE -- MAINSTREAM AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL SYSTEMS -- Acupuncture -- Homeopathy -- Ayurvedic Medicine -- Naturopathy -- Chiropractic Therapy -- Herbal Medicine -- CONCLUSION -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Part II Alternative Medicine and African Americans -- Chapter 3 African American Alternative Medicine -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- RECENT STUDIES OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AND AFRICAN AMERICANS -- REASONS FOR THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE -- Illness/Disease Perception -- Alternative Treatment Actions: Naturalistic Causation -- Self-Care -- Caregiving Network -- Alternative Indigenous Health Practitioners -- Formal Health Practitioners -- Alternative Treatment Actions: Unnatural Causation -- CONCLUSION -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Chapter 4 Cultural Historical Review of African American Alternative Medicine -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE.; African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina -- African Americans in Detroit, Michigan -- CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE -- CONCLUSION -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Part III How to Do Applied Medical Anthropological Fieldwork -- Chapter 5 Strategies for Collecting Qualitative Alternative Medicine Data -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PREPARING AND ADAPTING TO THE FIELD -- MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK TECHNIQUES -- Observation -- Participant Observation -- Informants -- Type of Interviews -- Focus Group Interviews -- Focus Group Studies -- Focus Group Procedures and Guidelines -- Preparing for the Focus Group -- Conducting the Focus Group -- Individual In-Depth Profiles -- Procedure for Individual In-Depth Profiles -- Types of General Individual In-Depth Questions -- Sampling -- Ethnographic Fieldwork Data Analyses -- Quantitative Analyses -- Qualitative Analyses -- Ethnographic Method -- Life History Analyses -- Individual In-Depth Analyses -- Theme and Pattern Analyses -- Reflective Comments -- ETHICS OF HEALTH CARE RESEARCH: PERSON OF COLOR ISSUES -- CONCLUSION -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Part IV Disease-Focused Alternative Treatment Practices: Research Including African Americans -- Chapter 6 Hypertension and Alternative Treatment Therapies -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- BIOMEDICAL DEFINITION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HYPERTENSION -- CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF HYPERTENSION -- CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT METHODS FOR HYPERTENSION -- Diuretics -- Beta Blockers -- ACE Inhibitors -- Angiotensin Antagonists -- Calcium Channel Blockers (CCBs) -- Alpha Blockers -- Alpha-Beta Blockers -- Nervous System Inhibitors -- Vasodilators -- CLINICAL TESTING OF AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT THERAPY.; IMPLEMENTATION OF A CULTURALLY ORIENTED ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT THERAPY -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Chapter 7 Cancer and Alternative Treatment Therapies -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- BIOMEDICAL DEFINITION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CANCER -- CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF CANCER -- CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT METHODS FOR CANCER -- Cyrosurgery -- Chemotherapy -- Radiotherapy -- Other Treatment Methods -- Angiogenesis Inhibitors -- Laser Therapy -- Bone Marrow Transplantation and Peripheral Blood Stem -- Gene Therapy -- Cancer Vaccine -- CLINICAL TESTING OF AN ALTERNATIVE ; MEDICAL TREATMENT REGIMEN -- IMPLEMENTATION OF A CULTURALLY ORIENTED ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT THERAPY -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Chapter 8 Diabetes Mellitus and Alternative Treatment Therapies -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- BIOMEDICAL DEFINITION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF DIABETES MELLITUS -- CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF DIABETES MELLITUS -- CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT METHODS FOR DIABETES MELLITUS -- CLINICAL TESTING OF AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT REGIMEN -- IMPLEMENTATION OF A CULTURALLY ORIENTED ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT THERAPY -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Chapter 9 Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke) and Alternative Treatment Therapies -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- BIOMEDICAL DEFINITION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES -- CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF STROKE -- Theme 1: Discovering Stroke -- Theme 2: Delaying Treatment -- Theme 3: Living with Uncertainty -- Theme 4: Discovering the Impact of Stroke -- Theme 5: Reconstructing Life -- CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT METHODS FOR STROKE -- CLINICAL TESTING OF AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT REGIMEN -- IMPLEMENTATION OF A CULTURALLY ORIENTED ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT THERAPY.; POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Chapter 10 Mental Health and Alternative Treatment Therapies -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- BIOMEDICAL DEFINITION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF MENTAL HEALTH -- CULTURAL PERCEPTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH -- CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT METHODS FOR MENTAL ILLNESS -- CLINICAL TESTING OF AN ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT REGIMEN -- IMPLEMENTATION OF A CULTURALLY ORIENTED ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL TREATMENT THERAPY -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Chapter 11 Conclusion: Culture and Alternative Medicine -- CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CULTURE AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE -- ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AND AFRICAN AMERICANS -- Mainstream Society and Alternative Medicine -- Defining African American Alternative Medicine -- AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH CARE-SEEKING -- Improving Health Status and Reducing Health Disparity -- Cultural Perception and Cultural Acceptance -- CONCLUSION -- POST-EVALUATION QUESTIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- WEB SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE -- Index -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: In order to examine the importance of alternative medicine to the African American population, this book focuses on the African American health belief system and the treatment strategies often used and documented. This book includes a cultural-historical view of alternative medicine's use within the African American community and shows how it was an integral part of African American culture. The author highlights a number of studies that examine alternative and complementary therapies associated with specific diseases among African Americans. Case studies are presented to show the types of alternative and complementary medicines used for specific diseases and to determine whether the alternative and complementary therapy was effective or not. Moreover, the cultural perceptions of the specific disease are presented to provide reasons why African Americans tend to use the particular alternative and complementary medical therapy for the disease. The book serves as a resource guide for students, healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and the general public.