Black Folk Medicine: The Therapeutic Significance of Faith and Trust

by Wilbur Watson

Book Overview

Folk medicine is an important informal and traditional system of social health care support that is still wisely used in many nations including rural regions of the southern United States. This volume provides new insight into the various conditions and structures that help to account for the development and persistence of folk medicine in societies. The authors focus on older, primarily female, black users of folk medicine; the problem of trust in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878554947
• ISBN13: 9780878554942
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.