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437 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700]
1978
#10869
Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.
1979
#7190
Only one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Appendix 1 contains a listing of the many medical books in the library of Thomas Jefferson.
1979
#8128
Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.
The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …
1979
#8595
Uses of plants for the past 500 years.
Reissued as Medicinal and other uses of North American plants: A historical survey with special reference to the Eastern Indian tribes (1989).
1979
#9158
Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.
"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…
1980
#6374.9
Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.
A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.
1980
#6604.31
When the twain meet. The rise of western medicine in Japan.
Suppl. to Bull. Hist. Med., new ser., 5.
1980
#8794
The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.
1980
#9147
Mesmerism: A translation of the original medical and scientific writings of F. A. Mesmer. Compiled and translated by George J. Bloch.
Includes [1.] an English translation, made from the 1971 edition in French, of Mesmer's disseration: Disseratio physico-medica de planetarum influxu (Vienna, 1766). [2.] English translation of Lettre de M. Mesmer...à …
1980
#9747
Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.
1980
#10736
The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.
1980
#12961
Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.
1980
#12962
Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis
1981
#6958
The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.
The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…
1981
#8335
Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.
1981
#13554
Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.
"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …
1982
#9365
The web that has no weaver: Understanding Chinese medicine.
1983
#8612
Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.
1983
#10217
Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
1983
#10868
Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.
1985
#6495.4
Medicine in China: A history of ideas.
The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…
1985
#8203
Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.
1985
#9889
The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
1986
#7381
Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.
1986
#9419
Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.
1987
#9900
Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
1988
#5019.21
Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.
Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.
1988
#7221
Traditional bush medicines: An aboriginal pharmacopoeia.
Aboriginal Communities of the Northern Territory of Australia. Collated and researched by Andy Barr, project manager; Joan Chapman, pharmacist; Nick Smith, botanist, Maree Beveridge, computer operator; Terry Knight, p…
1988
#8788
Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.
1988
#8791
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
1988
#9291
The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.
1988
#9707
Histoire de la médecine chinoise.
1988
#10674
Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.
1989
#7668
Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.
1989
#8863
Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.
1989
#9342
Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.
1989
#9730
Approaches to traditional Chinese medical literature. Proceedings of an international symposium on translation methodologies and terminologies. Edited by Paul U. Unschuld.
1990
#7513
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
1990
#8877
Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.
1990
#10873
Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.
Shamanism may have originated among the Turkic peoples of Siberia. English translations of studies by Russian scholars with an introduction and a thorough bibliography.
1990
#10874
The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.
1990
#13343
The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.
1991
#7514
Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.
1991
#7516
Red-hair medicine: Dutch-Japanese medical relations.
A collection of essays by various scholars. Editors also included M.E. van Opstall and F. Vos.
1991
#9673
Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
1991
#10409
The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.
1992
#7043
Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…
1992
#7594
Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.
1992
#9300
Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies.
1992
#10856