Title: Ethnic medicine in the Southwest /
Authors: Bauwens, Eleanor.; Spicer, Edward Holland,
Date: 1977
Publisher: University of Arizona Press,
Physical description: viii, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: Four studies examine the use of popular and folk health remedies in different Southwestern ethnic communities.
Contents: Southwestern healing traditions in the 1970s: An introduction / Edward H. Spicer -- Popular medicine in a black neighborhood / Loudell F. Snow -- Health and illness in a Mexican American barrio / Margarita Artschwager Kay -- Disease and curing in a Yaqui community / Mary Elizabeth Shutler -- Medical beleifs and practices among lower-income anglos / Eleanor Bauwens.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Southwest, New--Social life and customs.; Traditional medicine--Southwest, New.