ROW: Indigenous Healing Systems and Biomedicine in Jamaica Trinidad, and Guyana

妇女研究机会-研究规划赠款将允许来自霍华德大学的两名女社会科学家在牙买加、圭亚那和特立尼达进行为期两个月的实地研究，以研究药用植物的民族植物学。研究人员将就当地药用植物的用途采访助产士、草药医生、超自然治疗师和客户，以及政府和公共卫生官员和学者。此外，还将收集、拍摄和准备民族植物学样本。这项研究将评估不同社会阶层对折叠药的不同使用情况，确定与药用植物有关的疾病症状，并将民间民族药的使用和欣赏与现有的生物医疗保健联系起来。这项研究在几个方面很重要：它将帮助我们了解美国和其他国家许多人使用的民间医学体系；它将促进女科学家的研究事业，帮助她们启动一个试点项目，这将导致一项重要的研究提案；它还将为少数族裔学生今后参与这一研究项目奠定基础。

This Research Opportunity for Women - Research Planning Grant will allow two female social scientists from Howard University to conduct two months of field research in Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad to study the ethnobotany of medicinal plants. The researchers will interview midwives, herbalists and supernatural healers and clients as well as government and public health officials and academicians about the local uses of medicinal plants. In additional ethnobotanical samples will be collected, photographed and prepared. The study will assess the differential use of fold medicine by different social classes, identify the illness syndromes associated with medicinal plants, and relate the use and appreciation of folk ethnomedicine to the available biomedical care. %%% This research is important in several ways: it will help us understand a folk medicine system used by many people in the USA as well as in other countries; it will facilitate the research careers of women scientists by helping them start a pilot project that should result in a major research proposal; and it will lay the groundwork for future involvement of minority students in this research project.