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1774An oration…containing an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America; and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations.
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
1777Von den Krankheiten der Juden: seinen Brüdern in Deutschland gewidmet.
WOLF, Elcan Isaac
1820​–1821Illustrations of the great operations of surgery, trepan, hernia, amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy.
BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842)
BELL, Sir Charles (1774 – 1842)
1823Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.
HUNTER, John Dunn (1788 – 1827)
1826Clinique de la maladie syphilitique. Enrichie d’observations communiquées par messieurs Cullerier oncle, Cullerier neveu, Bard, Gama, Desruelles et autre médecins. Text and atlas.
DEVERGIE, Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse (1798 – 1879)
DEVERGIE, Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse (1798 – 1879)
1855Médecine et hygiène des Arabes. Études sur l’exercice de la médecine et de la chirurgie chez les Musulmans de l’Algérie, leurs connaissances en anatomie, histoire naturelle, pharmacie, médecine légale, etc. Leurs conditions climatériques générales, leur pratiques hygiéniques publiques et privées, leurs maladies, leurs traitements les plus usités. Précédées de considérations sur l’état général de la médecine chez les principales nations Mahométanes.
BERTHERAND, Émile-Louis (1821 – 1890)
1862Chinese immigration and the physiological causes of the decay of a nation.
STOUT, Arthur B.
1867Cas singulier de trépanation chez le Incas.
BROCA, Pierre Paul (1824 – 1880)
1874Sur les crânes artificiellement perforés à l'époque des dolmens.
PRUNIÈRES, Pierre Marie Barthélémy (1828 – 1893)
1876Gerichtlich-medicinische Untersuchungen über das Skopzenthum in Russland nebst historischen Notizen.
PELIKAN, Evgeny Ventseslavovich (1824 – 1884)
1881Lésions osseuses de l'homme préhistorique en France et en Algérie.
LE BARON, Jules Prosper (1855 – 1902)
1882Labor among primitive peoples.
ENGELMANN, George Julius (1847 – 1903)
ENGELMANN, George Julius (1847 – 1903)
1886Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.
WHITNEY, William Fiske (1850 – 1921)
1887Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples.
WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
1892The medicine-men of the Apache.
BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)
1908Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
HRDLIČKA, Aleš (1869 – 1943)
1913Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker.
FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
1914Sanitary conditions among the Eskimos: A report on conditions in native villages along the Arctic coast of Alaska. Supplement No. 9 to Public Health Reports, December 12, 1913.
KRULISH, Emil (1878 – 1965)
1923The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.
MADDOX, John Lee (1878 – 1946)
1924Medicine, magic and religion. [Edited] with a preface by G. Elliot Smith.
SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937)
SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937) RIVERS, William Halse Rivers (1864 – 1922)
1932Medicine among the American Indians.
STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )
1932The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.
MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921)
MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921) OLBRECHTS, Frans Maria (1899 – 1958)
1934Postures & practices during labor among primitive peoples: Adaptations to modern obstetrics, with chapters on taboos & superstitions & postpartum gymnastics.
JARCHO, Julius (1882 – 1963)
1935The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.
CORLETT, William Thomas (1854 – 1948)
1935Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.
BRENDLE, Thomas Royce UNGER, Claude W. (1882 – 1945)
1939Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
MIGUELITO (1865 – 1936)
REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955)
REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955) HUCKEL, John Frederick (1863 – 1936)
1947The use of blood groups in anthropology.
MOURANT, Arthur Ernest (1904 – 1994)
MOURANT, Arthur Ernest (1904 – 1994)
1955A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.
DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
1956Medicine and magic of the Mashona.
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
1961Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
1964Medicine and custom in Africa.
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
1968Kuru and cannibalism.
MATTHEWS, John D. GLASSE, Robert M. (1930 – 1993) LINDENBAUM, Shirley
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.
1971Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
MARRIOTT, Alice Lee (1910 – 1992) RACHLIN, Carol King (1919 – 2013)
1972A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) WASSÉN, S. Henry (1908 – 1996) & et al.
1976Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.
LESLIE, Charles Miller (1923 – 2009)
1976Medical anthropology. Edited by Francis X. Grollig, S. J. and Harold B. Haley.
GROLLIG, Francis X. (1922 – 2005) HALEY, Harold B.
1977Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.
NGUBANE, Harriet (1929 – 2007)
1977African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.
IMPERATO, Pascal James (1937 – )
1980The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
1983Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.
DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
1983Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
KUNITZ, Stephen J. (1938 – )
1984Culture, health and illness.
HELMAN, Cecil G. (1944 – 2009)
1985The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
1985Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons
PARSONS, Claire D. F.
1988Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
1988Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.
FILDES, Valerie A.
1988Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
1990A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea.
BURTON-BRADLEY, Sir Burton G. (1914 – 1994)
1993Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
WILBERT, Johannes