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 DEWHURST, William Henry

The natural history of the order Cetacea, and the oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions.

Characterizing himself "Surgeon-Accoucheur" on the title page, Dewhurst lectured in 1827-8 on anatomy and physiology, and served as a ship's surgeon, making voyage to Greenland and its surrounding seas in 1824. During…

GMN 10259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12450

1992 MERKUR, Daniel (1952 – 2016)

Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.

GMN 7594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9766

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

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