1931 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937)
Sinanthropus – Peking Man, its discovery and significance.
Elliot Smith visited Peking to view the skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis, discovered by W. C. Pei on December 2, 1929. A preliminary description by Pei is to be found in Bull. geol. Soc. China, 1929, 8, 3.
GMN 213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3877
1932 STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )
Medicine among the American Indians.
Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.
GMN 6460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7621
1932 MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921); OLBRECHTS, Frans Maria (1899 – 1958)
The 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.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9169
1933 BUXTON, L. H. Dudley ( – 1939); MORANT, Geoffrey McKay (1899 – 1964)
The essential craniological technique.
Digital facsimile from JSTOR at this link.
GMN 203.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3621
1934 JARCHO, Julius (1882 – 1963)
Postures & practices during labor among primitive peoples: Adaptations to modern obstetrics, with chapters on taboos & superstitions & postpartum gymnastics.
GMN 11001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13197
1935 CORLETT, William Thomas (1854 – 1948)
The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 6461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7623
1935 BRENDLE, Thomas Royce; UNGER, Claude W. (1882 – 1945)
Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.
GMN 8616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10793
1937 –1939 KEITH, Sir Arthur (1866 – 1955); GARROD, Dorothy Annie Elizabeth (1892 – 1968); BATE, Dorothea Minola Alice (1878 – 1951); MCCOWN, Theodore Doney (1908 – 1969)
The stone age of Mount Carmel. Volume I: Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume II: The fossil remains from the Lavalloiso-Mousterian.
Garrod carried out her landmark excavations of the el-Wad, el-Tabun and es-Skhul caves on the hills of Mount Carmel, close to Wadi el-Mugharah (Valley of the Caves) between 1929 and 1934. Her monograph on the subject …
GMN 7259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9428
1937 FIELD, Margaret Joyce
Religion and medicine of the Ga people.
GMN 10672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12865
1938 BROOM, Robert (1866 – 1951)
The Pleistocene anthropoid apes of South Africa.
Paranthropus robustus, discovered by Broom in Kromdraal, South Africa, in 1938. The species is generally dated from about 2 million to 1.2 million years before present.
GMN 7281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9451
1938 LA BARRE, Raoul Weston (1911 – 1996)
The peyote cult.
The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.
GMN 13291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15557
1938 POWELL, Charles Austin (1887 – 1950)
Bound feet.
The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…
GMN 13328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15595
1939 MIGUELITO (1865 – 1936); REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955); HUCKEL, John Frederick (1863 – 1936)
Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…
GMN 6465.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7636
1939 PRICE, Weston Andrew Valleau (1870 – 1948)
Nutrition and physical degeneration: A comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects.
"The 1939 foreword to the book, written by physical anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, lauded Price's work for confirming previous research that dental caries were less prevalent in "savages" and attempting to establis…
GMN 10688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12881
1943 WEIDENREICH, Franz (1873 – 1948)
The skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis: A comparative study on a primitive hominid skull.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8936
1944 MYRDAL, Karl Gunnar (1898 – 1987); STERNER, Richard (1901 – 1978); ROSE, Arnold Marshall (1918 – 1968)
An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.
Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10562
1946 BROOM, Robert (1866 – 1951); SCHEPERS, Gerrit Willem Hendrik (1914 – )
Pretoria: The South African fossil ape-men. The Australopithecinae. Part I. The occurrence and general structure of the South African ape-men.
With this comprehensive report Broom presented his case to the scientific establishment that Australopithecus probably represented the stock from which mankind had evolved.
GMN 214.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3948
1946 ELLIS, E. S.
Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
GMN 8634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10811
1947 MOURANT, Arthur Ernest (1904 – 1994)
The use of blood groups in anthropology.
GMN 195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3482
1950 UNDERWOOD, Edgar Ashworth (1899 – 1980)
Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating prehistoric man in health and sickness. With an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.
GMN 13912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16206
1951 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a plains Indian.
GMN 9732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11919
1955 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.
GMN 9103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11282
1956 GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
Medicine and magic of the Mashona.
GMN 8651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10828
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
GMN 10853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13049
1959 LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)
A new fossil from Olduvai.
In 1959 Mary Leakey discovered the "Zinj" skull (OH 5) at Olduvai Gorge. This became the type specimen for Paranthropus boisei, arguably the most famous early human fossil from Olduvai in Northern Tanzania. The specie…
GMN 7288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9458
1961 LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972); ET AL
Age of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika.
Introduction of the potassium-argon dating method to paleoanthropology, showing that lava at the base of the site of Olduvai Gorge was about 1.8 million years old, and proving that fossils, Australopithecus (Zinjanthr…
GMN 214.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8937
1961 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
GMN 10855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13051
1962 KROGMAN, Wilton Marion (1903 – 1987)
The human skeleton in forensic medicine.
GMN 9887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12075
1964 LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972); TOBIAS, Phillip Valentine (1925 – 2012); NAPIER, John Russell (1917 – 1987)
A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge.
First report on Homo habilis.
GMN 7270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9440
1964 GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
Medicine and custom in Africa.
GMN 8652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10829
1964 HODGEN, Margaret Trabue (1890 – 1977)
Early anthropology in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
GMN 10181 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12370
1965 PENNIMAN, Thomas Kenneth (1895 – 1977)
A hundred years of anthropology. 3rd ed.
Includes a useful chronological table and a valuable bibliography. First published 1935.
GMN 197 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3494
1968 COPPENS, Yves (1934 – ); ARAMBOURG, Camille (1885 – 1969)
Sur la decouverte dans le Pleistocene inferieur de la valle de l'Omo (Ethiopie) d'une mandibule d'Australopithecien.
In 1967 Arambourg and Coppens discovered Omo 18, the first specimen of Paranthropus aethiopicus, also known as Paraustralopithecus aethiopicus; however it's classification as a new species was initially dismissed. In …
GMN 7282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9452
1968 HARRIS, Marvin (1927 – 2001)
The rise of anthropological theory: A history of theories of culture.
GMN 9200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11381
1968 MATTHEWS, John D.; GLASSE, Robert M. (1930 – 1993); LINDENBAUM, Shirley
Kuru and cannibalism.
Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…
GMN 10841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13037
1971 ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988); WALSER, H. H.; KOELBING, H. M.
Medicine and ethnology. Selected essays by Erwin Ackerknecht. Edited by H. M. Koelbing and H. H. Walser.
See also No. 6448
GMN 6467.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7645
1971 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
Outcasts from evolution: Scientific attitudes of racial inferiority, 1859 - 1900.
GMN 9469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11652
1971 MARRIOTT, Alice Lee (1910 – 1992); RACHLIN, Carol King (1919 – 2013)
Peyote: an account of the origins and growth of the Peyote religion.
"The Peyote religion is a medico-religious cult. In considering native American medicines, one must always bear in mind the difference between the aboriginal concept of a medicinal agent and that of our modern Western…
GMN 10857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13053
1972 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); WASSÉN, S. Henry (1908 – 1996); ET AL
A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who came upon …
GMN 9021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11200
1972 RENBOURN, Edward Tobias
Materials and clothing in health and disease by E. T. Renbourn (with The biophysics of clothing materials by W. H. Rees).
GMN 13806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16094
1973 HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.
Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".
GMN 10735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12929
1976 JOHANSON, Donald Carl (1943 – ); TAIEB, Maurice (1935 – )
Plio-Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia.
Report on the Afar fossils (formally classified and named Australopithiecus afaranesis in 1998) representing a minimum of 35 and a maximum of 65 individuals, all about 3,000,000 years old. The most famous of these, AL…
GMN 214.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8938
1976 LESLIE, Charles Miller (1923 – 2009)
Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.
GMN 8497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10674
1976 GROLLIG, Francis X. (1922 – 2005); HALEY, Harold B.
Medical anthropology. Edited by Francis X. Grollig, S. J. and Harold B. Haley.
GMN 8541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10718
1976 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Dreams in Greek tragedy: An ethno-psycho-analytical study.
GMN 9731 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11918
1977 NGUBANE, Harriet (1929 – 2007)
Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.
GMN 7921 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10094
1977 IMPERATO, Pascal James (1937 – )
African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.
GMN 13369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15640
1978 JOHANSON, Donald Carl (1943 – ); WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – ); COPPENS, Yves (1934 – )
A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.
Johanson and colleagues formally named the species Afarensis of the genus Australopithecus in 1978.
GMN 7277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9447
1979 UNSCHULD, Paul Ulrich (1943 – )
Medical ethics in imperial China: A study in historical anthropology.
The first comprehensive history of explicity medical ethics in pre-modern China, spans the period from 500 BCE through the 19th century and provides literal translations of all accessible codes of ethics in the known …
GMN 8128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10304
1980 HARNER, Michael James (1929 – 2018)
The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.
GMN 10736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12930
