Jamaican folk medicine : : a source of healing / / Arvilla Payne-Jackson and Mervyn C. Alleyne.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Jamaica : : University of the West Indies Press,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 pages) :; illustrations, map |
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Table of Contents:
- The social historical context : slavery and its aftermath
- The ethnic dimension
- African and African-Jamaican religions
- Aetiology and illness
- Folk medical practitioners
- Treatments and health care
- The nature of healing herbs
- Conclusion
- Appendix : Drugstore medicines, Kingston, Jamaica.