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383 entries match Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01]
2011
#9314
Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic. A critical edition, with translation and commentary of Hunayn ibn Ishāq, Kitāb ayyām al-buhrān, by Glen M. Cooper.
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First printed edition of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), a founding text of astrological medicine, together with the first translation of the text into a modern …
2011
#12547
The healing landscapes of Central and Southeastern Siberia. Edited by David G. Anderson
"This volume documents healing traditions in Eastern Siberia in an area extending from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. The region shows an interesting unity in healing traditions across a wide range of landscape type…
2012
#9977
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
2012
#12350
Vaccine: The debate in modern America.
2013
#7926
A handbook of African traditional healing approaches & research practices. Edited by Njoki Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin.
2013
#9405
The history of American homeopathy: From rational medicine to holistic health care.
2013
#12040
The duke and the stars: Astrology and politcs in renaissance Milan.
Explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical…
2013
#13740
The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.
Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link.
2014
#7837
Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.
2014
#9412
Shadow medicine: The placebo in conventional and alternative therapies.
2014
#9912
Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…
2014
#12722
Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.
"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…
2015
#8516
Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)
2015
#8790
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
2015
#10275
A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
2015
#12441
Vaccine nation: America's changing relationship with immunization.
2016
#10048
Nature's path: A history of naturopathic healing in America.
2016
#12312
Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.
2017
#10305
The religion of chiropractic: Populist healing from America's heartland.
2017
#10665
The experiential Caribbean: Creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic.
"Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially ba…
2017
#12796
The birth of homeopathy out of the spirit of romanticism.
".... Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann’s unpublished writings, including case journals and self-test…
2018
#9711
Médecins et magiciens á la cour du pharaon. Une étude du papyrus médical Louvre E 32847.
Transcription, French translation, and study of this papyrus dating from the reign of Amenophis II (1424-1398 BCE). The papyrus, written for teaching purposes, concerns diagnosis of pathology in the elderly, tumors (i…
2018
#9792
The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.
2018
#11621
The mystery of the exploding teeth and other curiosities from the history of medicine.
Fascinating stories well told, and frequently with a great sense of humor!
2018
#12538
Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.
"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …
2018
#12563
Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.
"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…
2018
#12673
Syrische Astrologie und das Syrische Medizinbuch.
2019
#11274
Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the mind, visionary of the brain
2019
#13293
Anti/Vax: Reframing the vaccination controversy.
2019
#13741
Therapeutic tattooing in the Arctic: Ethnographic, archaeological, and ontological frameworks of analysis.
Digital facsimile from Academia.edu at this link.
2021
#13679
An organ of murder: Crime, violence and phrenology in nineteenth-century America.
2021
#13794
A frog under the tongue: Jewish folk medicine in Eastern Europe.
2023
#14221
The Kirtsos historical library of homoeopathic medicine: An annotated bibliographical catalogue.
The definitive bibliographical catalogue of the historical literature of homeopathy.