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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

TRADITIONAL, Folk or Indigenous Medicine (125)

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1963The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.
BONSER, Wilfrid (1887 – 1971)
1963Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
COLDEN, Jane (1724 – 1766) RICKETT, Harold William (1896 – 1989) HALL, Elizabeth Cornelia (1898 – 1989)
1964Medicine and custom in Africa.
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
1966Te Rongoa Maori: Maori medicine.
WILLIAMS, Pip M. E.
1970American Indian medicine.
VOGEL, Virgil J. (1918 – 1994)
1971Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.
ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988) WALSER, H. H. KOELBING, H. M.
1971Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.
MACLEAN, Una
1971Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
MARRIOTT, Alice Lee (1910 – 1992) RACHLIN, Carol King (1919 – 2013)
1971The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
1971Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios
CÓRDOVA-RIOS, Manuel (1887 – 1978) LAMB, Frank Bruce (1913 – 1993)
1972Making the cure: A look at Irish folk medicine.
LOGAN, Patrick
1973Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.
ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
1973Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
1976The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales.
BETTELHEIM, Bruno (1903 – 1990)
1977Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.
NGUBANE, Harriet (1929 – 2007)
1977Childbirth in the ghetto: Folk beliefs of negro women in a North Philadelphia hospital ward.
FRANKEL, Barbara
1978Sorcery and healing: The meaning of illness and death to an Australian aboriginal community.
REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )
REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )
1980Magical medicine: The folkloric component of medicine in the folk belief, custom, and ritual of the peoples of Europe and America. Seleced essays of Wayland D. Hand.
HAND, Wayland Debs (1907 – 1986)
1980The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
1981Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.
MEANEY, Audrey Lilian (1931 – )
1983Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.
REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )
REID, Janice Clare (1947 – )
1985Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.
TABERNER, Peter V.
1985The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
1987Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
LAGUERRE, Michael S. (1943 – )
1988Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.
WALL, L. Lewis (1950 – )
1990Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.
1990Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.
HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – )
1990Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.
BALZER, Marjorie Mandelstam (1950 – )
1990The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.
LEWIS, Thomas H.
1991Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.
MURPHY, Lamar Riley (1953 – )
1992Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
1992Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.
MERKUR, Daniel (1952 – 2016)
1993Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
WILBERT, Johannes
1993Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios
CÓRDOVA-RIOS, Manuel (1887 – 1978) LAMB, Frank Bruce (1913 – 1993)
1994Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.
CRELLIN, John K.
1994Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.
RORIE, David (1867 – 1946) BUCHAN, David (1939 – 1994)
1994Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.
PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )
PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )
1994Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
FONTENOT, Wonda L.
1994Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.
O'CONNOR, Bonnie Blair
1995Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.
BEITH, Mary
1996Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.
BRODWIN, Paul
1996Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.
KAY, Margaret Artschwager
1997Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
GUYONVARC'H, Christian-Joseph (1926 – 2012)
1997Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.
MEHL-MADRONA, Lewis E. (1954 – )
1998Warts: Summary of Wart-cure survey for the Folklore Society.
HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )
1998"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)
1998Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.
WATSON, Wilbur H. (1938 – 1998)
1999Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.
HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )
1999Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.
MOSS, Kay K.
2000African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.
NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter