Folk Medicine In many traditional Black communities, folk medicine previously practiced in Africa may still be employed. The methods have been tried and tested and are still relied on. Healers or voodoo practitioners make no class or status distinc- tions among their patients, treating everyone fairly and honestly. This tradition of equality of care and […]
HEALTH and ILLNESS in the Black Population ■ 273 4. Bluestone, a mineral found in the ground, is used as medicine for open wounds. The stone is crushed into a powder and sprinkled on the affected area. It prevents inflammation and is used to treat poison ivy. 5. To treat a “crick” in the neck,
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Traditional Methods of HEALTH Maintenance and Protection The following sections present examples of practices employed presently or in earlier generations to maintain and protect HEALTH and to treat various types of maladies to restore HEALTH. This discussion cannot encompass all the types of care given to and by the members of the Black community but
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Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas. HEALTH and ILLNESS in the Black Population ■ 271 one possessed HEALTH, one was in harmony with nature; ILLNESS was a state of disharmony. Traditional Black belief regarding HEALTH did not separate the mind, body, and spirit. Disharmony—that is, ILLNESS—was attributed to a number of sources, primarily demons and
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Highlights of the Civil Rights Movement 1954 Brown v. Board of Education—segregation in public schools found to be illegal by this landmark Supreme Court ruling 1955 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and the bus boycott in Alabama begins Emmett Till murdered in Mississippi 1957 Central High
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Chapter 11 HEALTH and ILLNESS in the Black Population God speed the day when human blood shall cease to flow! In every clime be understood, the claims of human brotherhood, And each return for evil, good, not blow for blow; That day will come all feuds to end, and change into a faithful friend each
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RESEARCH ON CULTURE A large amount of research has been conducted among members of the Asian American populations. The study described in the following article is one example: Lee, J and Bell, K. (2011) The Impact of Cancer on Family Relationships Among Chinese Patients. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 22(3), 225–234. This qualitative research study examined
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Number Enrolled Non-Hispanic Whites (%) Asians (%) Dentistry 19,342 60.6 22.7 Allopathic medicine 74,518 62.4 21.5 Osteopathic medicine 15,634 70.5 17.4 Optometry 5,556 60.3 25.1 Pharmacy 50,691 59.5 21.6 Podiatry 2,095 62.2 11.8 Public health 22,604 59.3 12.5 Source: National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States, 2010: With Special Feature on Death and Dying.
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Asian American Health Care Manpower Asian Americans, a group that constituted 4.8% of the resident U.S. popula- tion in the 2010 census, are for the most part well represented in the enroll- ment in health professions, as illustrated in Table 10–5. Today, persons who desire to be physicians in China have the option of studying
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Alzheimer’s disease Septicemia Source: National Center for Health Statistics. (2010). Health, United States, 2010: With Special Feature on Death and Dying. Hyattsville, MD. 2011: Author, pp. 145–146. Retrieved from www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus10.pdf, November 15, 2011. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus10.pdf 260 ■ Chapter 10 little awareness that deep problems may underlie this “exemplary” behavior. Ignorance on the part of
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