Wings of Gauze

, by Saran, AMA R.; De Lancey, Frenzella Elaine; Fontenot, Wonda Lee; Cummings, Carol M.

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ISBN: 9780814323021 | 0814323022
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/1993

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Supplemental Materials

Foreword	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Coping and Caretaking: Rethinking the Boundaries of Physical/Psychological Health
My Guardian Spirits	p. 23
Cracking the Skull, Mending the Soul: Sonia Sanchez's Role as Teacher/Healer/Poet	p. 26
Madame Neau: The Practice of Ethno-Psychiatry in Rural Louisiana	p. 41
Perceptions of Discrimination, Psycho-social Functioning and Physical Symptoms of African-American Women	p. 53
Older Women of the Project: The Socio-medical Consequences of Urban Change	p. 68
Cognitive Coping Strategies among the Mothers of Children with Sickle Cell Disease	p. 79
Traditional Medicine and Holistic Concepts of Health: Questions of Culture and Politics
Health Care Decision Making among Cambodian Refugee Women	p. 93
Mind and Body: Revising Approaches to the Analysis of Curanderismo	p. 109
Images of Health: Perceptions of Urban American-Indian Women	p. 122
Visiting the Women and Neighborhood of My Past	p. 130
Historical Perspectives and the Provision of Care: Questions of Empowerment and Social Control
Mary Petersen: A Life of Healing and Renewal	p. 148
Homesickness, Illness and Death: Native-American Girls in Government Boarding Schools	p. 169
Managing on Their Own: Ailing Black Women in Philadelphia and Charleston, 1870 to 1918	p. 180
Empowered Caretakers: A Historical Perspective on the Roles of Granny Midwives in Rural Alabama	p. 191
Childbirth, Lay Institution Building, and Health Policy: The Traditional Childbearing Group, Inc., of Boston in a Historical Context	p. 202
Nutrition, Breastfeeding, and Ethnicity: Understanding Maternal and Child Health Beliefs among New-Wave Immigrants	p. 226
Breast Cancer: Images of Self
Breast Cancer, Breast Self-Examination, and African-American Women	p. 244
Resignation and Resourcefulness: Older Hispanic Women's Responses to Breast Cancer	p. 257
Cancer in the Family	p. 273
Community Action and Public Health Policy
Battered Women of Color in Public Health Care Systems: Racism, Sexism, and Violence	p. 288
Barriers to Birth Control Use among Hispanic Teenagers: Providers' Perspectives	p. 300
Living with the Threat of AIDS: Perceptions of Health and Risk among African-American Women IV Drug Users	p. 312
Poverty, Drug Use, and AIDS: Converging Issues in the Life Stories of Women in Harlem	p. 328
Latinas and HIV Infection/AIDS: Reflections on Impacts, Dilemmas, and Struggles	p. 340
The Use of Women's Culture in AIDS Outreach	p. 353
Notes on Contributors	p. 364
About the Editors	p. 372
Some Further Sources	p. 374
Index	p. 383
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