Traditional health beliefs and practices among lower class black Americans.

Culture, Illness, and Care

1978 • 2,827 citations

Folk Medical Beliefs and Their Implications for Care of Patients

1974 • 201 citations

Communication Skills of House Officers

1980 • 87 citations

Sorcerers, saints and charlatans: Black folk healers in urban America

1978 • 63 citations

Health and healing practices among five ethnic groups in Miami, Florida.

1974 • 62 citations

Modern Day Menstrual Folklore

1977 • 58 citations

Voodoo, Root Work, and Medicine

1967 • 58 citations

Falling-out: A diagnostic and treatment problem viewed from a transcultural perspective

1979 • 52 citations

The influence of others: witchcraft and rootwork as explanations of behavior disturbances.

1973 • 40 citations

Prophets and advisors in black spiritual churches: Therapy, palliative, or opiate?

1981 • 34 citations

Voodoo in the General Hospital

1975 • 30 citations

Hypnosis in the Treatment of the "Hexed" Patient

1967 • 24 citations

The Relationship between Beliefs about the Menstrual Cycle and Choice of Fertility Regulating Methods within Five Ethnic Groups

1975 • 24 citations

Dysesthesia, Witchcraft, and Conversion Reaction

1978 • 24 citations

The behavioral implications of some old wives' tales.

1978 • 22 citations

Voodoo in Africa and the United States

1977 • 21 citations

Louisiana voodoo and superstitions related to health.

1971 • 15 citations

Incompatibilities of professional and religious ideology: Problems of medical management and outcome in a case of pediatric meningitis

1979 • 14 citations

Root Work and Root Doctor

1973 • 13 citations

A functional analysis of southern folk beliefs concerning birth

1968 • 12 citations

Physician Dependence, Self-Treatment Practices, and Folk Remedies in a Rural Area

1970 • 12 citations

Assessment of reproductive knowledge in an inner-city clinic

1982 • 8 citations

Sleeping blood, tremor and paralysis: A trans-cultural approach to an unusual conversion reaction

1981 • 6 citations

Pain relief associated with a religious visitation: a case report.

1983 • 4 citations