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383 entries match Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01]
1998
#12572
Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.
1998
#12779
Healers and healing in early modern Europe.
"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…
1999
#7379
From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.
1999
#9277
Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.
1999
#9745
Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.
1999
#10073
The History of Phrenology on the Web.
http://www.historyofphrenology.org.uk/overview.htm This is the most comprehensive reference source available on phrenology. Van Wyhe divides it into the following following sections: Overview Organs The Phrenological …
1999
#14077
The faces of homoeopathy.
"The history of homeopathic medicine as seen through the people who contributed towards its development. Focusing on homeopathy in the USA and in the UK, it traces the development of the practice through the 1800s, th…
2000
#8030
African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.
2000
#9743
Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.
2000
#11184
Acupuncture, expertise and cross-cultural medicine.
2000
#13428
Heil und Heilung: Geschichte der Laienheilkundigen und Struktur antimodernistischer Weltanschauungen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik am Beispiel von Eugen Wenz (1856-1945).
2001
#9408
The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.
"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …
2001
#9813
Physiognomy and the meaning of expression in nineteenth-century culture.
"...explores the concepts of physiognomy and eugenics and raises questions about what are "legitimate" sciences.[2] She describes how "the appeal of physiognomy lay not so much in any of its scientific pretension but …
2001
#12129
The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.
2001
#14076
The heritage of homoeopathic literature: An abbreviated bibliography and commentary.
"... an abbreviated bibliography of 915 of the best and the worst of homeopathic literature from 1810 to 2000.... the book presents the work by category (Materia Medica, Repertory, Domestic Manuals, etc.) and in chron…
2002
#8011
African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.
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
#13427
Homöopathie in der Klinik: die Geschichte der Homöopathie am Stuttgarter Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus von 1940 bis 1973.
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.
2004
#6955
The D.O.s: Osteopathic medicine in America. 2nd ed.
2004
#8076
The politics of healing: Histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America.
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
#8786
Nature cures: The history of alternative medicine in America.
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
#9899
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
2004
#10074
Phrenology and the origins of Victorian scientific naturalism.
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
#9406
The history of American homeopathy: The academic years, 1820-1935.
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
#9493
Alternative medicine: A history.
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
#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
#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
#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…
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.
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
#8439