About the Author

Margarita Artschwager Kay is the editor of Anthropology of Human Birth and is a professor emerita at the University of Arizona. As Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and the American Academy of Nursing, Kay has focused her research on the health of Mexican American women throughout their lifespan.

Reviews

Superbly well-organized and well-written. --Western Historical QuarterlyA work of scholarship and a fascinating read. --Western Journal of Nursing ResearchThis work has broad, general appeal and illuminates many ethnic cultures. I should find a wide reading audience. --Come-All-YeExtremely well researched, and full of fascination to the 'medical cultural brokers' Kay sees as her major audience. --NAHUA NewsletterDr. Kay has done an admirable job in providing researchers and the general public with a book that will not only substantiate the use of many traditional remedies of the Southwest and Northern Mexico, but will also offer a springboard to research on the potential value of incoroporating some of these remedies into modern self-care and health care. . . . It will no doubt become a classic work and an oft-cited reference in this increasingly important subject --Herbalgram