Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences: heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabetes at earlier and earlier ages. Bailey offers a new cultural diet for black Americans and a prescription for working collectively, not only to understand this critical health...
Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceiv...
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...
In order to examine the importance of alternative medicine to the African American population, this book focuses on the African American health bel...
The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches--from anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, public health administrators, biologists, and many others, including the general public, to health care. This approach places culture and cultural relativism at the forefront and center of every model, and examines the ethics and fairness of health care issues associated with the African American population.
The author examines data on mortality, census, preventive health, alternative medical...
The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches--from anthropologists, sociologis...
Despite all the medical and media attention focused on the rate of overweight and obesity in the African American population, African American images and body types are greatly influencing changes in the fashion, fitness, advertising, television and movie industries. This is because overweight, like beauty, can be in the eye of the beholder. Most research studies investigating attitudes about body image and body type among African Americans have shown they are more satisfied with their bodies than are their white counterparts and that there appears to be a wider range of acceptable body...
Despite all the medical and media attention focused on the rate of overweight and obesity in the African American population, African American imag...
The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches--from anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, public health administrators, biologists, and many others, including the general public--to health care. This approach places culture and cultural relativism at the forefront and center of every model, and examines the ethics and fairness of health care issues associated with the African American population.
The author examines data on mortality, census, preventive health, alternative medical...
The field of medical anthropology is a discipline that incorporates the perspective of a wide range of approaches--from anthropologists, sociologis...
With an African American in the White House, there is no better time for assessing the progress the United States has made in protecting the rights of all its citizens. "The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans" offers such an assessment, with an in-depth look at the Obama administration's proposed initiatives as they relate to the African American community and a survey of civil rights issues that need to be reexamined in light of Obama's election.
"The Cultural Rights Movement" is a well-researched, powerfully written analysis of why a...
With an African American in the White House, there is no better time for assessing the progress the United States has made in protecting the rights...
More and more, the idea of America as a melting pot is becoming a reality. Written from the perspective of multiracial citizens, "The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority Is Changing the United States" brings to light the values, beliefs, opinions, and patterns among these populations. It assesses group identity and social recognition by others, and it communicates how multiracial individuals experience America's reaction to their increasing numbers.
Comprehensive and far-reaching, this thoughtful compendium covers the cultural history of multiracials...
More and more, the idea of America as a melting pot is becoming a reality. Written from the perspective of multiracial citizens, "The New Face of A...
