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309 entries match Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine [K01.900.850]
1934
#11663
The negro professional man and the community with special emphasis on the physician and lawyer.
An in-depth social statistical and geographical analysis of America's black doctors including their distribution, economic links, and social activism that varied throughout the South, as well as the North and West.
1934
#12990
Meharry Medical College: A history.
The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college fo…
1935
#6461
The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1935
#9303
The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.
"The Tohono O’odham ... are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means "Desert People." The federally recogniz…
1936
#6499
Medicine in the Bible. The Pentateuch, Torah.
References to medicine in the Old Testament, with notes and definitions, and references to the Talmud.
1936
#9304
The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).
1937
#6464
Medicina aborigen americana.
1938
#13291
The peyote cult.
The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.
1939
#6465.1
Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…
1939
#6594
The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.
A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.
1939
#9323
Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.
1940
#9278
Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.
1941
#9281
Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.
Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.
1941
#10769
Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? Biblioteczka Zydowskiej Samopomocy Spolecznej. Nr. 1.
A 14-page pamphlet on epidemiology published by the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium (Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in the Kraków Ghetto to educate Jewish activists and physicians. The author perished a…
1941
#12823
Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.
Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…
1942
#9284
A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.
In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…
1944
#8385
An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.
Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1944
#9282
Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.
Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.
1945
#13801
The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.
1946
#7236
Choroba glodowa: Badania kliniczne nad glodem wykonane w getcie warszawskim z roku 1942.
A series of articles by Jewish physicians working in the Bersohn and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital and "Czyste" Hospital in the Warsaw ghetto, who conducted independent research between November 1941 and August 19…
1947
#10216
The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1947
#12814
Medical care and the plight of the Negro.
1949
#3154.1
Sickle cell anemia, a molecular disease.
First recognition, by Pauling and colleagues, of a structural hemoglobin variant, and the beginning of the molecular approach to disease.
1949
#8084
The Negro in the medical profession.
Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.
1951
#6596.1
The health of slaves on southern plantations.
Chiefly from contemporary MS records.
1951
#6846
The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded configurations of the polypeptide chain.
Pauling, his crystallographer R. B. Corey, and African-American physicist and chemist H.R. Branson announced the α-helix, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from the National Academy of Scie…
1951
#8479
El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.
1952
#6500
Jewish medicine.
1952
#13306
Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).
1952
#14100
Tissue culture studies of the proliferative capacity of cervical carcinoma and normal epithelium.
A cell biologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Gey propagated the HeLa cell line from Henrietta Lacks' cervical tumor. This cell line, which maintained a continuous growth phase, was the first immortal human cell line to…
1955
#14343
The Negro in science.
In the forward Martin D. Jenkins pointed out that while African Americans made important contributions to the natural sciences the awareness of the public and even other scientists was rather low. In the first chapter…
1957
#9272
Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)
1957
#11944
Introduction to the book of Asaph the Physician: The oldest existing text of a medical book written in Hebrew.
See also, Muntner, "The antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his editorshoip of the earliest Hebrew book of medicine," Bull. Hist. Med., 25 (1951) 101-131.
1958
#8478
Mutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.
1958
#8603
Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.
1958
#9297
Negroes and medicine.
1958
#10853
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
1959
#8135
Jewish medical ethics: A comparative and historical study of the Jewish religious attitude to medicine and its practice.
1960
#7938
La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.
1961
#10855
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
1961
#12015
No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.
Primarily a history of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses [NACGN], which existed for the express purpose of "promoting unity within the nursing profession and furthering the cause of democracy." Integ…
1963
#6495.8
The medical writings of Moses Maimonides. Treatise on asthma.
1963
#8642
The martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland: Studies by Dr. Leon Wulman and Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum. Research and Documentation by Dr. Leopold Lazarowitz and Dr. Simon Malowist. Edited by Louis Falstein.
"Of the more than 3 million Jewish Poles that perished during the Holocaust, approximately 3,000 were physicians. It was the goal of the Alliance members to memorialize those physicians who perished during the Holocau…
1967
#6501.1
The Jews and medicine. Jewish luminaries in medical history. 3 vols.
First published 1944-46. Vol. 1 includes a classified bibliography of ancient Hebrew medicine.
1967
#7048
The history of the Negro in medicine.
International Library of Negro Life and History. Revised edition, 1968.
1969
#8840
La médecine de l'Amérique précolombienne.
1969
#10675
Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
1970
#6467.1
American Indian medicine.
Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.
1971
#6510.1
Bibliography of medieval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences.
1971
#7934