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Thi s book is the result of collaborative work by the co-authors. We had both been working independently on various aspects of Jamaican culture, and it was our common interest in folk medicine that brought us together in 1989. We set in motion a systematic research programme under the aegis of an exchange protocol between Howard University and the University of the West Indies. It was a very complementary relationship, the one interested in the sociological and ethnological dimensions of folk medicine and in herbals, the other in linguistic aspects, in history and in the underlying philosophical structures of folk medicine. It was the strong opinion of both authors that Jamaica was an extremely fruitful location in which to conduct folk-medicine research. No comprehensive single publication has brought all the issues and dimensions of folk medicine together under one cover. It seemed vitally important that the case of Jamaica be fully added to the literature of medical anthropology and that the extensive folk pharmacopoeia based on herbals be more widely known. Indeed, besides its academic value to teachers, students and researchers, such a publication would aid health and healing

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Author

Arvilla Payne-Jackson, Mervyn C. Alleyne

Publisher

University of the West Indies Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9789766401238

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Medical, Anthropology, History

Rating

4.3 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14