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

1995

#8089

Sick and tired of being sick and tired: Black women's health activism in America, 1890-1950.

1995

#8271

Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: Selections from classical Jewish sources.

1995

#9630

Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.

1996

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

1997

#8264

The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1997

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

1997

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1997

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…

1997

#9936

Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.

By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.

1998

#7869

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

1998

#8205

Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.

1998

#8265

Medical encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1998

#8350

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

1998

#9901

Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.

1998

#11895

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

"A general introduction to the history of medieval Jewish medicine, its origins in Muslim countries, the main Arabic and Judeo-Arabic texts, and the renaissance of Hebrew as a language of science in the 12th-15th cent…

1998

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

1998

#12572

Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.

1998

#14153

Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor

"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…

1999

#8694

The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.

1999

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1999

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.

1999

#10315

Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.

1999

#13080

Early black American leaders in nursing: Architects for integration and quality. (National League for Nursing Series).

2000

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2000 –2002

#8081

An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1900. Vol. 2: Race, medicine and health care in the United States 1900-2000.

2000

#8272

Jewish bioethics, edited by J. David Bleich and Fred Rosner.

2000

#9322

Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.

2000

#12328

Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.

2000

#12528

Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud.

An extension and expansion of Preuss, Biblisch-talmudische Medizin (1911, 1923). See No. 6498.

2000

#13883

NDA II. The story of America's second National Dental Association.

2001

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2001

#9280

Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.

2001

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2001

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2001

#10534

Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2001

#12092

Medicine ways: Disease, health and survival among native Americans. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane E. Weiner.

2001

#13710

Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.

2002

#7755

Jews and medicine: An epic saga.

2002

#8011

African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.

2002 –2007

#8245

Maimonides on asthma: a parallel Arabic-English text, edited, translated and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Maimonides on asthma, Vol. 2: Critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

2002

#9624

Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.

2002

#10410

Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.

Medical rituals of the Lacota people.

2003

#7057

Unequal treatment: Confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Edited by B. D. Smedley, A. Y. Stith, and A. R. Nelson.

"Congress, in 1999, requested an IOM study to assess the extent of disparities in the types and quality of health services received by U.S. racial and ethnic minorities and non-minorities; explore factors that may con…

2003

#7849

Honoring the medicine: The essential guide to native American healing.

2003

#7956

Another dimension to the black diaspora: Diet, disease and racism

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

#11047

Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).

2004 –2015

#8310

Maimonides: Medical aphorisms. A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Vol. 1: Treatises 1-5.; Vol. 2: Treatises 6-9; Vol. 3: Treatises 10-15; Vol. 4: Treatises 16-21. Vol. 5: Treatises 22-25.

2005

#8254

Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qaṭan: Original Hebrew text, medieval Latin translation, modern English translation by Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, and Tzvi Langermann.

2005

#10515

Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.