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African American women's health and social issues

Author: Catherine Fisher Collins
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine Fisher Collins
ISBN: 0275980820 9780275980825
OCLC Number: 64770901
Description: x, 218 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Vivian W. Pinn -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : commentary on the health and social status of African American women / Catherine Fisher Collins -- 1. African American women and heart disease / Lynn Valencia Perry-Bottinger -- 2. Breast cancer in African American women / Patricia K. Bradley -- 3. Understanding sickle cell disease for African American women / Jamesetta A. Newland and Cassandra Dobson -- 4. Sickle cell disease : what's going on? insights for women / Cheryl Hunter-Grant -- 5. Diabetes and African American women / Catherine Fisher Collins -- 6. HIV/AIDS : confronting the health risk factors / Lorraine E. Peeler -- 7. Social construction and social transmission of HIV/AIDS / Lorraine E. Peeler -- 8. Allowing illness in order to heal : sojourning the African American woman and the AIDS pandemic / Renee Bowman Daniels -- 9. African American women and depression / Fredia Hopkins Outlaw -- 10. Homeless women : caught in a web of poverty / Juanita K. Hunter -- 11. Informed decisions : paving the way to informed consent / Rhea J. Simmons -- 12. Women in the shadow : seeking health, seeking self / Virginia A. Batchelor -- 13. Women of color and the roots of coping : a literary perspective / Imani Lillie B. Fryar -- Index -- About the editor and contributors.
Responsibility: edited by Catherine Fisher Collins ; foreword by Vivian W. Pinn.

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