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309 entries match Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine [K01.900.850]

1971

#11665

Blacks, medical schools and society.

A study of the trends in black enrollments in the nation’s medical schools, and various public and higher education factors that limited the supply of black physicians in America through the 1960s.

1972

#9917

Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.

1973

#8136

Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.

Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.

1973

#8687

Jewish physicians: A biographical index.

Over 9000 entries.

1973

#9274

Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.

1973

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1974

#9285

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.

1975

#7054

Textbook of Black-related diseases. Edited by Richard A. Williams.

The first textbook on diseases of African Americans written by African American physicians. The book set the tone for recognizing the importance of race and ethnicity in the evalutation, diagnosis, and treatment of pa…

1975

#8843

Textos de medicina nahuatl.

1975

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.

1976

#3705.05

Tooth mutilations and dentistry in pre-Columbian Mexico.

First edition in English. First edition, in Spanish, 1971.

1976

#11035

Hallucinogenic plants of North America.

1977

#7977

The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.

"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…

1977

#9045

Medicina aborigen.

1977

#9288

Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.

1977

#10803

Medical history of a Civil War regiment: Disease in the sixty-fifth United States Colored Infantry.

1978

#7047

Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.

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

#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).

1980

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1981

#8091

Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…

1983

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

1983

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1984

#6501.3

Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides.

1984

#7053

The Caribbean slave: A biological history.

1984

#10327

History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.

1985

#8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

1986

#7957

A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.

Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.

1986

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

1986

#12376

Pioneering research in surgical shock and cardiovascular surgery: Vivien T. Thomas and his work with Alfred Blalock. An autobiography by Vivien T. Thomas

Later retitled, Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock.

1987

#5813.15

A century of black surgeons. The U.S.A. experience. 2 vols.,

1987

#8270

Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1988

#8268

Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.

1988

#9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

1989

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

1989

#8269

The medical aphorisms of Moses Maimonides translated and annotated by Fred Rosner, with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag.

1989 –1990

#9043

Cuerpo humano e ideologia. Las concepciones de los antiguos nahauas. Third edition. 2 vols.

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990

#8754

Blacks in science and medicine.

1990

#10874

The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.

1992

#9046

La medicina en el Ecuador prehispánico.

1994

#7239

Jews, medicine and medieval society.

1994

#8261

Medical and para-medical manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah collections by Haskell D. Issacs with the assistance of Colin F. Baker.

1994

#8267

Medicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus.

1994

#9424

African-American medical pioneers.

1994

#10084

The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.

1994

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…

1995

#7742

Jews and medicine: Religion, culture, science, edited by Natalia Berger. Based on the exhibit at Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, [Tel Aviv, Israel].

Essays, extensively illustrated, sometimes with rarely seen images, tracing the most significant points of encounter between the history of the Jewish people and the history of medicine, beginning with the Bible and e…

1995

#8086

Making a place for ourselves: The Black hospital movement 1920-1945.