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African American women's health and social issues / edited by Catherine Fisher Collins ; foreword by Vivian W. Pinn. - 2nd ed. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006. - x, 218 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 0275980820 (alk. paper) 9780275980825 (alk. paper) 9780275980825

LCCN: 2006008227

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101287798 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American women--Health and hygiene.
African American women--Diseases.
African American women--Social conditions.
Women's Health--United States.
African Americans--United States.
Health Status.--United States.
Sociology--United States.

LC Class. No.: RA448.5.N4 / A445 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 613/.0424408996073 COL

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2006 K-632 WA 309 / A258 2006