Hmong American Concepts of Health, Healing, and Conventional Medicine

by Dia Cha

Book Overview

America's healthcare system in the twenty-first century faces a variety of pressures and challenges, not the least of which is that posed by the increasingly multicultural nature of American society itself. Large numbers among the Hmong, immigrants from the landlocked Asian nation of Laos, continue to prefer their own ancient medical traditions. That these Hmong Americans should continue to adhere to a tradition of folk medicine, rather than embrace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138971863
• ISBN13: 9781138971868
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"