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Ethnomedicine in the urban environment: Dominican healers in New York City
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New York City has a large Dominican community that utilizes a variety of traditional healing resources, yet relatively little is known about their ethnomedical concepts and practices. This paper focuses on six Dominican traditional healers who participated in a cross-cultural study on therapies f
or women's health problems in New York City. Healers were located through community networks and botanical shops and were interviewed about their backgrounds, healing traditions, and therapeutic techniques. Women patients with prior medical diagnoses were taken to the healers for consultations, and ...
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