African American women's health and social issues / edited by Catherine Fisher Collins ; foreword by Vivian W. Pinn.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Collins, Catherine Fisher
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
African American women > Health and hygiene.
African American women > Diseases.
African American women > Social conditions.
Black or African American.
Health Status.
Sociology.
Women's Health.
United States.
Physical Description:x, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • African American women and heart disease / Lynn Valencia Perry-Bottinger
  • Breast cancer in African American women / Patricia K. Bradley
  • Understanding sickle cell disease for African American women / Jamesetta A. Newland and Cassandra Dobson
  • Sickle cell disease : what's going on? insights for women / Cheryl Hunter-Grant
  • Diabetes and African American women / Catherine Fisher Collins
  • HIV/AIDS: confronting the health risk factors / Lorraine E. Peeler
  • Social construction and social transmission of HIV/AIDS / Lorraine E. Peeler
  • Allowing illness in order to heal: sojourning the African American woman and the AIDS pandemic / Renee Bowman Daniels
  • African American women and depression / Fredia Hopkins Outlaw
  • Homeless women: caught in a web of poverty / Juanita K. Hunter
  • Informed decisions: paving the way to informed consent / Rhea J. Simmons
  • Women in the shadow: seeking health, seeking self / Virginia A. Batchelor
  • Women of color and the roots of coping: a literary perspective / Imani Lillie B. Fryar.