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383 entries match Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01]

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1981

#13554

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.

MACDONALD, Michael P.

"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 …

1983

#8612

Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.

BOUSFIELD, Wendy

1983

#10868

Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.

REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )
REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )

1983

#11238

Franz Joseph Gall Bibliographie. Mit einem Porträt und 13 Abbildungen

GALL, Franz Joseph (1758 – 1828)
GALL, Franz Joseph (1758 – 1828) HEINTEL, Helmut HEINTEL, Brigitte

1984

#14078

Bibliographie de l'homéopathie: Publications en langue française de 1824 à 1984.

ROZET, Claude

1985

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

TABERNER, Peter V.

1985

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)

1986

#7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

DARNTON, Robert Choate (1939 – )
DARNTON, Robert Choate (1939 – )

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

LAGUERRE, Michael S. (1943 – )

1988

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

CRABTREE, Adam

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1988

#6956

Other healers: Unorthodox medicine in America. Edited by Norman Gevitz.

GEVITZ, Norman (1948 – )

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

MCGUIRE, Meredith B. (1944 – )

1988

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )

1988

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

WALL, L. Lewis (1950 – )

1988

#11170

Studies in the history of alternative medicine. Edited by Roger Cooter.

COOTER, Roger (1948 – )

1988

#12349

The politics of prevention: Anti-Vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England.

PORTER, Roy Sydney (1946 – 2002) PORTER, Dorothy

Digital facsimile from semanticscholar.org at this link.

1989

#7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.

PORTER, Roy Sydney (1946 – 2002)

1989

#11235

Bibliographie der Schriften Samuel Hahnemanns.

HAHNEMANN, Christian Friedrich Samuel (1755 – 1843) SCHMIDT, Josef Maximilian (1954 – )

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.

1990

#8877

Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.

HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – )

1990

#10873

Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

BALZER, Marjorie Mandelstam (1950 – )

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.

LEWIS, Thomas H.

1991

#8298

Mediaeval prognosis and astrology: A working edition of the [anonymous] Aggregationes de crisi et creticis diebus, with introduction and English summary by Cornelius O'Boyle

O'BOYLE, Cornelius

This pre-Galenic astrological text by an unknown author from the later part of the 13th century concerns astrological prognostication. It was based upon Book III of Galen's De diebus criticis, but provided a "handy sh…

1991

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

MURPHY, Lamar Riley (1953 – )

1991

#10409

The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.

ARMSTRONG, David ARMSTRONG, Elizabeth Metger

1991

#13177

Homeopathy in the United States: A bibliography of homeopathic medical imprints, 1825-1925.

CORDASCO, Francesco (1920 – 2001)

1992

#6993

Chiropractic: History and evolution of a new profession.

WARDWELL, Walter I. (1918 – 2005)

1992

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )

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.

MERKUR, Daniel (1952 – 2016)

1992

#13344

Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.

SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) RAFFAUF, Robert F. (1916 – 2001)

1993

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

WILBERT, Johannes

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1993

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

CÓRDOVA-RIOS, Manuel (1887 – 1978) LAMB, Frank Bruce (1913 – 1993)

1994

#8864

Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.

CRELLIN, John K.

"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …

1994

#9744

Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.

RORIE, David (1867 – 1946) BUCHAN, David (1939 – 1994)

1994

#9937

Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.

PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )
PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )

1994

#10051

Nature doctors: Pioneers in naturopathic medicine.

BOYLE, Wade KIRCHFELD, Friedhelm (1940 – 2011)

1994

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

FONTENOT, Wonda L.

"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…

1994

#11168

Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.

O'CONNOR, Bonnie Blair

"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…

1995

#9269

Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.

BEITH, Mary

"Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to mode…

1995

#9796

Chiropractic: An illustrated history.

PETERSON, Dennis WIESE, Glenda

1996

#8010

Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.

BRODWIN, Paul

1996

#9056

Geschichte der Alternativen Medizin: Von der Volksmedizin zu den unkonventionellen Therapien von heute.

JÜTTE, Robert (1954 – )

1996

#9290

Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.

KAY, Margaret Artschwager

1996

#11063

Internationaler biographischer Index der Medizin : Arzte, Naturheilkundler, Veterinarmediziner und Apotheker. 3 vols.

ENGELHARDT, Dietrich von (1941 – )

1997

#9344

Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.

GUYONVARC'H, Christian-Joseph (1926 – 2012)

1997

#9910

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

VOEKS, Robert A. (1950 – )

"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.

MEHL-MADRONA, Lewis E. (1954 – )

By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.

1998

#9296

Warts: Summary of Wart-cure survey for the Folklore Society.

HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )

1998

#9642

"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
HELFAND, William H. (1926 – 2018)
HELFAND, William H. (1926 – 2018)

1998

#10332

An alternative Path: The making and remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.

ROGERS, Naomi (1958 – )

"When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. Th…