1650 BULWER, John (1606 – 1656)
Anthropometamorphosis: Man transform’d, or the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy fineness, and loathesome loveliness of most Nations, fashioning & altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature, and an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant.
Extensively illustrated treatise on varieties of body modifications, real or imagined, includes details on hair styles, tatoos, piercing, including sexual aspects. Digital facsimile of the 1653 edition from the Intern…
GMN 10490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12683
1671 LA MARTINIÈRE, Pierre Martin de (1634 – 1690)
Voyage des pais septentrionaux: Dans lequel se void [sic] les moeurs, maniere de vivre, & superstitions des Norweguiens, Lappons, Kiloppes, Borandiens, Syberiens, Samojedes, Zembliens, & Islandois, enrichi de plusieurs figures.
Translated into English as A new voyage into the northern countries being a discription of the manners, customs, superstition, buildings, and habits of the Norwegians, Laponians, Kilops, Borandians, Siberians, Samojed…
GMN 10124 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12313
1834 PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)
A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals of the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c
"One of the most valuable works on the subject extant. It is a monument of exact observation, and considering the state of archaeological knowledge at the time, it is in every way admirable" (Dawson, Bibliography of w…
GMN 12275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14494
1836 THOMSEN, Christian Jurgensen (1788 – 1865)
Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed.
Thomsen's work established the "Three-Age system," according to which artifacts were first made of stone, then bronze, and then iron. This basic chronology underpins the archaeology of most of the "Old World.”
GMN 7374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9546
1865 LUBBOCK, John (1834 – 1913)
Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains, and the manners and customs of modern savages.
Lubbock introduced the terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic". His work addressed not only the topic of human antiquity but also the lives and cultures of people in the Stone Age. In contrast to researchers who focused o…
GMN 7257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9426
1871 TYLOR, Sir Edward Burnett (1832 – 1917)
Primitive culture: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom. 2 vols.
The standard work on primitive religion for many years. Tylor approached his subject from the point of view of psychology, exploring the nature of belief in spirits, omens, magic, etc. His work has important ties with…
GMN 172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3280
1885 –1888 RATZEL, Friedrich (1844 – 1904)
Völkerkunde. 2 vols.
Ratzel emphasized the importance of the investigation of the history of primitive peoples in the study of ethnology.
GMN 180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3360
1890 FRAZER, Sir James George (1854 – 1941)
The golden bough. 2 vols.
Frazer’s theoretical evolutionary sequence of magical, religious, and scientific thought is no longer accepted, and his broad general psychological theory has proved unsatisfactory; however it enabled him to compare a…
GMN 184 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3373
1891 BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)
Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.
Digital facsimile of the 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated in to German as: Der Unrat in Sitte, Brauch, Glauben und Gewohnheitrecht der Völker, von John Gregory Bourke. Verdeutscht und ne…
GMN 9888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12076
1903 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les seins dans l'histoire.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13315
1928 HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)
Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.
An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.
GMN 194.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3478
1928 MEAD, Margaret (1901 – 1978)
Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.
Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…
GMN 10118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12307
1930 MEYER, Johann Jakob (1870 – 1939)
Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.
Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…
GMN 8322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10498
1937 FIELD, Margaret Joyce
Religion and medicine of the Ga people.
GMN 10672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12865
1938 POWELL, Charles Austin (1887 – 1950)
Bound feet.
The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…
GMN 13328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15595
1939 PRICE, Weston Andrew Valleau (1870 – 1948)
Nutrition and physical degeneration: A comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects.
"The 1939 foreword to the book, written by physical anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, lauded Price's work for confirming previous research that dental caries were less prevalent in "savages" and attempting to establis…
GMN 10688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12881
1951 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.
GMN 9732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11919
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
GMN 10853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13049
1968 HARRIS, Marvin (1927 – 2001)
The rise of anthropological theory: A history of theories of culture.
GMN 9200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11381
1976 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Dreams in Greek tragedy: An ethno-psycho-analytical study.
GMN 9731 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11918
1982 STIKER, Henri-Jacques
Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.
Translated into English by William Sayers as A history of disability. New foreward by David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. "The first book to attempt to provide a f…
GMN 14189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16505
1983 CRONON, William (1954 – )
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…
GMN 10407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12600
1988 WALL, L. Lewis (1950 – )
Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.
GMN 10674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12867
1998 BROTHWELL, Donald Reginald (1933 – 2016)
Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples
Originally published in 1969.
GMN 8032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10208
2006 MOLINA, Natalia (1971 – )
Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.
GMN 13702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15984
2007 MANTEGAZZA, Paolo (1831 – 1910); PIREDDU, Nicoletta
The physiology of love and other writings. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu. Translated by David Jacobson.
GMN 12505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14739
2008 LEWIS, David Jr.; JORDAN, Ann T.
Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
GMN 12097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14306
2008 PITTS-TAYLOR, Victoria
Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.
GMN 13515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15790
2011 MANDAVILLE, James P.
Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.
GMN 9708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11895
2013 KRUTAK, Lars (1971 – )
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.
GMN 13740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16024
2015 SHEPHARD, Roy Jesse (1929 – )
An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.
1077 pages.
GMN 10119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12308
2019 KRUTAK, Lars (1971 – )
Therapeutic tattooing in the Arctic: Ethnographic, archaeological, and ontological frameworks of analysis.
Digital facsimile from Academia.edu at this link.
GMN 13741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16025
