2000 POLLINGTON, Stephen
Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.
GMN 9743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11931
2001 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – ); THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
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 …
GMN 9408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11591
2001 SOWELL, David (1952 – )
The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.
GMN 12129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14338
2003 PALMER, Steven
From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.
GMN 8008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10184
2003 CAVENDER, Anthony
Folk medicine in southern Appalachia.
GMN 9631 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11818
2004 ALLEN, David Elliston (1932 – ); HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )
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…
GMN 8868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11046
2004 HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )
Encyclopedia of folk medicine: Old world and new world traditions.
GMN 9268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11450
2004 PAYNE-JACKSON, Arvilla; ALLEYNE, Mervyn Coleridge (1933 – 2016)
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
GMN 9899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12087
2006 WEAVER, Karol Kovalovich
Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.
GMN 9911 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12099
2007 STOKKER, Kathleen (1946 – )
Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land.
GMN 9856 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12044
2007 MITCHEM, Stephanie
African American folk healing.
GMN 9976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12165
2008 FLINT, Karen E.
Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.
GMN 7925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10098
2008 KARRI, Sunya K.; SAPER, Robert B.; KALES, Stefanos N.
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…
GMN 12724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14970
2009 WEISS, Richard S.
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…
GMN 11825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14027
2010 MOORE, Ronnie; MCLEAN, Stuart
Folk healing and health care practices in Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals.
GMN 11169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13366
2011 CLARK, Patricia Ann
A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition: Text, translation and commentary.
GMN 8439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10616
2011 ANDERSON, David G.
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…
GMN 12547 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14784
2012 THOMAS, James G. Jr.; WILSON, Charles Reagan (1948 – )
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
GMN 9977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12166
2013 WANE, Njoki; NEEGANAGWEDGIN, Erica
A handbook of African traditional healing approaches & research practices. Edited by Njoki Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin.
GMN 7926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10099
2014 HENDRICKSON, Brett
Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.
GMN 7837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10009
2014 IWU, Maurice Mmaduakolam (1950 – )
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…
GMN 9912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12100
2015 ABU-RABIA, Aref
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
GMN 8790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10968
2015 WILLIER, Russell; YOUNG, David Earl; ROGERS, Robert Dale
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…
GMN 10275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12466
2017 GÓMEZ, Pablo F.
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…
GMN 10665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12858
2018 OHRVIK, Ane
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,…
GMN 12563 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14802