1994 CRELLIN, John K.
Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.
"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …
GMN 8864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11042
1994 YOUNG, T. Kue
The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.
GMN 10084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12273
1994 FONTENOT, Wonda L.
Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.
"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…
GMN 10090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12279
1995 YOUNG, T. Kue; WALDRAM, James B.; HERRING, D. Anne
Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.
Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.
GMN 10083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12272
1996 LYON, William S.
Encyclopedia of native American healing.
GMN 7002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9168
1996 SHEPHARD, Roy Jesse (1929 – ); RODE, Andris
The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.
"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…
GMN 10120 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12309
1997 VOEKS, Robert A. (1950 – )
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…
GMN 9910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12098
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
1998 RUDGLEY, Richard (1961 – )
The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.
GMN 8792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10970
1998 FRASER, Gertrude Jacinta
African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.
GMN 12553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14791
1999 HALL, Leslie A.; EDER, Franz X. (1958 – ); HEKMA, Gerhardus "Gert" (1951 – )
Sexual cultures in Europe: National histories.
"... brings together for the first time studies of the sexual cultures of all the major European countries--including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Spain, Britain and the Netherlands--to focus on their commonalities…
GMN 13585 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15863
2000 GREEN, Edward C. (1944 – )
Indigenous theories of contagious disease.
GMN 8504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10681
2000 SETEL, Philip W.
A Plague of paradoxes: Aids, culture, and demography in Northern Tanzania.
GMN 10033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12222
2001 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.
GMN 10799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12995
2002 BAILEY, Eric J. (1958 – )
African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.
GMN 8011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10187
2002 MOERMAN, Daniel Ellis (1941 – )
Meaning, medicine and the "placebo effect".
"Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes that the placebo effect should be redefined. A placebo, he explains is inert. It has no causal effect. A more appropriate definition of the …
GMN 10194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12383
2004 PAYNE-JACKSON, Arvilla; ALLEYNE, Mervyn Coleridge (1933 – 2016)
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
GMN 9899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12087
2005 ANDERSON, Warwick Hugh (1958 – )
The cultivation of whiteness: Science, health and racial destiny in Australia.
GMN 8700 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10877
2006 MACPHERSON, Cluny; MACPHERSON, La'avasa
Samoan medical belief and practice.
"...the first comprehensive study of Samoan medicine. Cluny and La‘avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofo, in Western Samoa …
GMN 12551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14788
2007 MITCHEM, Stephanie
African American folk healing.
GMN 9976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12165
2007 SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.
GMN 10371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12563
2008 BJERREGAARD, Peter; YOUNG, T. Kue
Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.
Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).
GMN 10082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12271
2008 MACDONALD, Margaret
At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.
",,, an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the p…
GMN 12555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14793
2009 WRIGHT, David; PALMER, Steven; DE BARROS, Juanita
Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
GMN 9975 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12164
2010 HSU, Elizabeth
Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine: The telling touch. Wih an annotated translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong zhuan) in the 105th chapter of The Records of the Historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Quian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories.
GMN 7465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9637
2010 SWEDLUND, Alan C.
Shadows in the valley: A cultural history of illness, death, and loss in New England, 1840-1916.
"...The study is organized for the most part around disease categories and the life cycle, so that the cultural framework of people's habits and values often seems secondary. Most of what we learn about illness and de…
GMN 10342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12534
2010 TRANKELL, Ing-Britt; OVESON, Jan
Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia.
Digital facsimile from diva-portal.org at this link.
GMN 13650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15931
2011 JOHNSON, Tina Phillips
Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.
GMN 8615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10792
2011 AU, Sokhieng
Mixed medicines: Health and culture in French colonial Cambodia.
GMN 10022 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12211
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 WILSON, Philip K.; HURST, W. Jeffrey
Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
GMN 8799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10977
2012 BROTHERTON, P. Sean
Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.
"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …
GMN 12131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14340
2014 GUPTA, Pankaj; SHARMA, Vijay Kumar; SHARMA, Sushma
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…
GMN 12722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14968
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
2015 KELTON, Paul; CAMERON, Catherine M.; SWEDLUND, Alan C.
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
GMN 10341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12533
2015 MILLER, Barbara Helen (1932 – 2019)
Idioms of Sámi health and healing. Edited by Barbara Helen Miller.
"The Sámi—Indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on Traditional Healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the e…
GMN 12548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14785
2015 SCHWARTZ, David Alan (1953 – )
Maternal mortality: Risk factors, anthropological perspectives, prevalence in developing countries and preventive strategies for pregnancy-related deaths. Edited by David A. Schwartz.
"Pregnancy is a life-threatening event in many parts of the developing world. Globally, it is estimated that 289,000 women died from being pregnant in 2013. The lifetime risk for dying as a result of pregnancy is as h…
GMN 14356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16686
2016 LYNTERIS, Christos
Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
GMN 9895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12083
2016 MUKHARJI, Projit Bihari
Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.
"Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close…
GMN 12727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14973
2017 HOGARTH, Rana A.
Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
GMN 9907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12095
2017 OWENS, Deirdre Cooper
Medical bondage: Race, gender and the origins of American gynecology.
"The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimenta…
GMN 9908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12096
2020 GRADMANN, Christoph; CANTOR, David; GAUDILLIÈRE, Jean-Paul; BEAUDEVIN, Claire; LOVELL, Anne M.; PORDIÉ, Laurent
Global health and the new world order: Historical and anthropological approaches to a changing regime of governance. Edited by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claire Beaudevin, Christoph Gradmann, Anne M. Lovell, Laurent Pordié and David Cantor.
GMN 13670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15952
