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By Loudell F. Snow. 311 pp. Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 1993. $55. ISBN 0-8133-1074-1.

In the light of recent interest in alternative therapies, Loudell Snow's book on traditional African American medicine is timely and important. Snow describes these traditional practices and shows how and why they remain meaningful to their adherents. She draws on 20 years of her own research -- including community-based anthropologic studies in Arizona and Michigan and observations she made as a behavioral scientist in a public pediatric clinic -- as well as on the work of other scholars.

The book begins with a brief history of the origins of the traditional system of medicine and an overview of the sociocultural . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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