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437 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700]
2002
#9088
"Der Charlatan strebt nicht nach Wahrheit, er verlangt nur nach Geld". Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Medizin und Laienmedizin im deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel von Hypnotismus und Heilmagnetismus.
2002
#10410
Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.
Medical rituals of the Lacota people.
2003
#6879
Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text.
2003
#7147
A Chinese physician: Wang Ji and the "Stone Mountain medical case histories".
A study of Wang Ji's Shishan yian (Stone Mountain medical case histories) first published in print in 1531.
2003
#7849
Honoring the medicine: The essential guide to native American healing.
2003
#8008
From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.
2003
#8506
Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.
The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…
2003
#9631
Folk medicine in southern Appalachia.
2003
#9669
Native American ethnobotany. A database of plants used as drugs, foods, dyes, fibers, and more, by native peoples of North America.
http://naeb.brit.org/ "As noted, In the spring of 2003, substantial revisions of the database were made, revising its looks, and adding links to the US Department of Agriculture PLANTS database. This means that comple…
2003
#9746
Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
A very wide-ranging selection of essays
2004
#8312
Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.
The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…
2004
#8868
Medicinal plants in folk tradition: An ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland.
The first comprehensive account of medicinal uses of wild plants by the country folk of Britain and Ireland based on manuscript folklore sources as well as published sources. These included information gathered by the…
2004
#9268
Encyclopedia of folk medicine: Old world and new world traditions.
2004
#9382
Chinese medical herbology and pharmacology.
This book, which extends to nearly 1200 pages, and represents the work of numerous experts, is the most comprehensive modern treatise on the subject of which I am aware.
2004
#9899
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
2005
#7146
Medieval Chinese medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, edited by Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen.
2005
#9478
Needles, herbs, gods and ghosts: China, healing and the west to 1848.
2005
#10548
Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, alchemist, and physician
2006
#8046
Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy.
2006
#8656
A most amazing scene of wonders: Electricity and enlightenment in early America.
"By examining the lives and visions of natural philosophers, spectacular showmen, religious preachers and medical therapists, he shows how electrical experiences of wonder, terror, and awe were connected to a broad ar…
2006
#9462
Bad medicine: Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates.
The paperback edition published in 2007 included a new epilogue by the author in response to critics of the controversial hardback edition.
2006
#9911
Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.
2007
#7506
Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,
2007
#9737
Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.
Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.
2007
#9856
Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land.
2007
#9976
African American folk healing.
2007
#11171
Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.
2007
#13645
Women, medicine and theatre, 1500-1750: Literary mountebanks and performing quacks.
2008
#7925
Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.
2008
#9489
"Hand mnemonics in classical Chinese medicine: Texts, earliest images, and arts of memory," Festschrift issued in honor of Nathan Sivin, Asia Major series 3, 21.1, 325-357.
2008
#10085
Russkie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).
2008
#10547
The casebooks project: A digital edition of Simon Forman's & Richard Napier's medical records 1596-1634. Lauren Kassell, Project Director.
http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ "The Casebooks Project offers a tool for searching and reading the medical records of the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier. The project is ongoing: 48,500 cases ar…
2008
#12097
Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
2008
#12724
Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.
Abstract: "Traditional medicine use is common in developing countries and increasingly popular in the western world. Despite the popularity of traditional medicines, scientific research on safety and efficacy is limit…
2009
#7149
The evolution of Chinese medicine: Song dynasty 960-1200.
2009
#10443
Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.
2009
#11825
Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.
"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…
2009
#12095
Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.
"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…
2009
#13711
The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.
2010
#7465
Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine: The telling touch. Wih an annotated translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong zhuan) in the 105th chapter of The Records of the Historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Quian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories.
2010
#11169
Folk healing and health care practices in Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals.
2010
#12723
Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.
2011
#7667
Chevalier John Taylor, England's early oculist: Pretender or pioneer?
The unusually colorful career of the pioneer oculist, notorious for his flamboyant behavior, self-promotion, proflific writings, and for blinding both Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. The authors disc…
2011
#8340
Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An annotated translation of Huang Di's inner classic- Basic questions. 2 vols.
2011
#8439
A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition: Text, translation and commentary.
2011
#9488
Speaking of epidemics in Chinese medicine: Disease and the geographic imagination in late imperial China.
2011
#9708
Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.
2011
#12547
The healing landscapes of Central and Southeastern Siberia. Edited by David G. Anderson
"This volume documents healing traditions in Eastern Siberia in an area extending from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. The region shows an interesting unity in healing traditions across a wide range of landscape type…
2012
#7891
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2012
#8799