African American women's health and social issues
By: edited by Catherine Fisher Collins ; foreword by Vivian W. Pinn.
Contributors: Collins, Catherine Fisher.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780275980825
Subjects: African American women -- Health and hygiene; African American women -- Diseases; African American women -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword -- Vivian W. Pinn; title: Preface --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Introduction : commentary on the health and social status of African American women -- Catherine Fisher Collins -- 1.; title: African American women and heart disease -- Lynn Valencia Perry-Bottinger -- 2.; title: Breast cancer in African American women -- Patricia K. Bradley -- 3.; title: Understanding sickle cell disease for African American women -- Jamesetta A. Newland -- and -- Cassandra Dobson -- 4.; title: Sickle cell disease : what's going on? insights for women -- Cheryl Hunter-Grant -- 5.; title: Diabetes and African American women -- Catherine Fisher Collins -- 6.; title: HIV/AIDS : confronting the health risk factors -- Lorraine E. Peeler -- 7.; title: Social construction and social transmission of HIV/AIDS -- Lorraine E. Peeler -- 8.; title: Allowing illness in order to heal : sojourning the African American woman and the AIDS pandemic -- Renee Bowman Daniels -- 9.; title: African American women and depression -- Fredia Hopkins Outlaw -- 10.; title: Homeless women : caught in a web of poverty -- Juanita K. Hunter -- 11.; title: Informed decisions : paving the way to informed consent -- Rhea J. Simmons -- 12.; title: Women in the shadow : seeking health, seeking self -- Virginia A. Batchelor -- 13.; title: Women of color and the roots of coping : a literary perspective -- Imani Lillie B. Fryar; title: Index --; title: About the editor and contributors.