| Hmong American Concepts of Health, Healing, and Conventional Medicine Contributor(s): Cha, Dia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415944953 ISBN-13: 9780415944953 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $209.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2003 Annotation: The purpose of this volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of the concepts of health, healing, and illness held by Hmong Americans, and to examine their experience with conventional medicine and medical services delivery systems as those systems exist in the West. The primary motive for conducting the research which comprises a substantial portion of the book was to analyze the extent to which Hmong American's experiences, as they attempt to seek healthcare for their families in the United States, are conditioned by enormous cultural clashes. By and large, the Hmong do not understand the complexity of the American health care system, while at the same time, mainstream healthcare providers know very little about the Hmong and their cultural background. This book will not only brigde that gap, but it will also provide some insight into the complexity of Hmong concepts of health healing, and illness and the Hmong experience with conventional medicine. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - History | United States - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 362.1 |
| LCCN: 2002156762 |
| Series: Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.18" W x 9.28" (1.02 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 the modern healthcare system of America, poses questions that must be answered. This book takes up the task of examining Hmong American concepts of health, illness and healing, and looks at the Hmong American experience with conventional medicine. In so doing, it identifies factors that either obstruct or enable healthcare delivery to the Hmong, specifically a target sample of Hmong Americans resident in Colorado. Drawing upon scientific methods of data collection, the research reveals attitudes currently held by a group of American citizens toward health and medicine which run the gamut from the very modern to those which have prevailed in the highlands of Southeast Asia for centuries. |