Walkin’ Over Medicine

By Loudell F. Snow

Paper - 9780814327579
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Published 1998
Pages: 328

Subjects: Africana Studies: Anthropology and Sociology

Series: African American Life Series


Description

Representing more than twenty years of anthropological research, Walkin' over Medicine, originally published by Westview Press in 1993, presents the results of Loudell F. Snow's community-based studies in Arizona and Michigan, work in two urban prenatal clinics, conversations and correspondence with traditional healers, and experience as a behavioral scientist in a pediatrics clinic. Snow also visited numerous pharmacies, grocery stores, and specialty shops in several major cities, accompanied families to church services, and attended weddings, baptisms, graduations, and funerals.

Published by Wayne State University Press

Reviews

"The United States health care system shortchanges our largest minority—African Americans—and Loudell F. Snow, an anthropologist who spent many years working with black patients, shows how that failure occurs . . . Walkin' over Medicine should be required reading for any health practitioner who treats African American patients."

— Library Journal