The Survival of Traditional Healing in a Contemporary Black Community
Johnson, Kirk Anthony
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Description
Title
The Survival of Traditional Healing in a Contemporary Black Community
Author(s)
Johnson, Kirk Anthony
Issue Date
1999
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Lie, John
Department of Study
Sociology
Discipline
Sociology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Black Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
I find that from 1850 to modern times, ethnomedicine has thrived amidst a confluence of factors that give cohort members robust incentives to pursue herbal and magical healing and equally compelling disincentives to pursue biomedicine. Ethnomedicine's resonance with a perceived black world view may derive additional elements of its appeal. The logic of the cohort's allegiance to ethnomedicine challenges the depiction of ethnomedical believers as misguided or unsophisticated. Indeed, characteristics of ethnomedicine and of its healers, if transplanted to hospitals and clinics, may enhance biomedicine's appeal among ethnomedically oriented black patients.
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