African American folk healing / / Stephanie Y. Mitchem |
Autore | Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : New York University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 398.2089/96073 |
Soggetto topico |
African Americans
African Americans - Medicine Medicine shows - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
African
American Mitchem about aspects between culture delineating disjunctures epistemology expressions faith healing holistic illness institutional linked medicine pointing practices shows simply that these they those views wellness |
ISBN |
0-8147-9635-4
0-8147-5962-9 1-4356-0736-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Historical paths to healing -- Stories and cures : defining African American folk healing -- Healing, the Black body, and institutional medicine : contexts for crafting wellness -- Healing in place : from past to present -- Today's healing traditions -- Healing and hybridity in the twenty-first century -- Healing the past in the present -- Religion, spirituality, and African American folk healing -- Hoodoo, conjure, and folk healing -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778103103321 |
Mitchem Stephanie Y. <1950->
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Lydia Pinkham [[electronic resource] ] : The Face That Launched a Thousand Ads |
Autore | Danna Sammy R. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
Disciplina | 610.82 |
Soggetto topico |
Advertising -- Medicine
Patent medicines -- United States -- History -- 19th century Pinkham, Lydia Estes, 1819-1883 Women in medicine -- United States -- Biography Women in medicine - History - 19th century - United States Patent medicines - Medicine - United States Medicine shows - History Advertising Communication History, Modern 1601- Persons Pharmaceutical Preparations Marketing Commerce Drugs Information Science History Humanities Technology, Industry, and Agriculture Technology Advertising as Topic History, 19th Century Women Nonprescription Drugs Health & Biological Sciences Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology |
ISBN | 0-8108-8909-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ch01. A Family's Rise in Times of Fortune and Despair; Ch02. Lydia Stands Up, Stands Out; Ch03. Of Bloodletting and Poisons; Ch04. Of Patent Medicines, Abuses and All; Ch05. The Vegetable Compound Takes Root; Ch06. Portrait of a Woman Who Led the Way; Photospread; Ch07. In Death, Lydia Still Lights the Way; Ch08. The 1890s; Ch09. The Gospel According to Lydia; Ch10. Attack of the Muckrakers; Ch11. Times Change, but theCompound Lives On; Ch12. Call Her Good, Call Her Bad, Call Her a Success; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797365703321 |
Danna Sammy R.
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