A Guide to Ethnic Health Collections in the United States

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Ethnic minority groups in the United States suffer and die from disease at rates much higher than the general population. Such groups include African-Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Hispanics, and Pacific Asian Americans. To understand the nature of the deplorable rates, the health history of the ethnic groups must be understood. This book describes the contents of libraries nationwide which house health and medically related materials on ethnic minority populations. The book covers information about catalogs, books, articles, biographies, and autobiographies, primary source materials, cassette tapes of speeches, video tapes and films, and medical artifacts. The repositories covered are in various stages of cataloguing these materials but indicate an interest in having researchers use the collections. This book is the most comprehensive guide to ethnic medical health materials, their location, state of completion, and the contents of collections.

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Gibb's guide identifies collections, including their content and location, that bear on the major ethnic populations in the US--African American, Hispanic, Pacific Asian American, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, Samoan.... Researchers studying ethnic health issues will find this guide a gateway to rich sources of information. The first of its kind, this guide will be valuable to those reviewing health care issues among the ethnic population, and it can also be useful to those interested in the ethnic heritage. Recommended for college students and practitioners in the ethnic studies and health care fields.-Choice
"Gibb's guide identifies collections, including their content and location, that bear on the major ethnic populations in the US--African American, Hispanic, Pacific Asian American, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, Samoan.... Researchers studying ethnic health issues will find this guide a gateway to rich sources of information. The first of its kind, this guide will be valuable to those reviewing health care issues among the ethnic population, and it can also be useful to those interested in the ethnic heritage. Recommended for college students and practitioners in the ethnic studies and health care fields."-Choice

Author Bio

TYSON GIBBS is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Texas.