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Dominican Medicinal Plants: A Guide for Health Care Providers, is a reference manual for clinicians to support culturally effective health care and greater understanding of traditional medical practices of immigrants from the Dominican Republic in New York City.
As an informational and educational tool, this book can support patient-provider communication and enhance cross-cultural understanding in a clinical setting. In addition to information about the plants themselves, this guidebook also provides explanations of key ethnomedical concepts and customs related to the use of herbal medicine to clarify the cultural context of Dominican ethnomedical traditions.
For this NIH-funded project, I worked with researchers at the Institute for Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden to code and analyze ethnographic interviews with botanica owners, customers and health care providers. I also helped maintain specimens in the reference collection and photographed plants for publication.
As an informational and educational tool, this book can support patient-provider communication and enhance cross-cultural understanding in a clinical setting. In addition to information about the plants themselves, this guidebook also provides explanations of key ethnomedical concepts and customs related to the use of herbal medicine to clarify the cultural context of Dominican ethnomedical traditions.
For this NIH-funded project, I worked with researchers at the Institute for Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden to code and analyze ethnographic interviews with botanica owners, customers and health care providers. I also helped maintain specimens in the reference collection and photographed plants for publication.