1981 TANNER, James Mourilyan (1920 – 2010)
A history of the study of human growth.
GMN 197.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8211
1981 BROTHWELL, Donald Reginald (1933 – 2016)
Digging up bones: The excavation, treatment, and study of human skeletal remains. Third edition.
GMN 8033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10209
1981 GOULD, Stephen Jay (1941 – 2002)
The mismeasure of man.
A critique of statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism. "Gould argues that the primary assumption underlying biological determinism is that, “worth can be assigned to individuals …
GMN 13068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15320
1982 STIKER, Henri-Jacques
Corps infirmes et sociétés : Essais d'anthropologie historique.
Translated into English by William Sayers as A history of disability. New foreward by David T. Mitchel and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2019. "The first book to attempt to provide a f…
GMN 14189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16505
1983 DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.
According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…
GMN 9313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11495
1983 KUNITZ, Stephen J. (1938 – )
Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.
GMN 10217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12406
1983 CRONON, William (1954 – )
Changes in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
"In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate conceptions of ownership held by Native Americans and English colonists. English law objectified land, making it an object of which the…
GMN 10407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12600
1984 SPENCER, Frank (1941 – 1999); SMITH, Fred H.
The origins of modern humans: A world survey of the fossil evidence.
An historical and analytical review of the literature up to 1984, with detailed bibliographies, by several outstanding authorities, edited by Smith and Spencer. Includes, pp. 411-483, Milford H. Wolpott, Wu Xin Zhi, a…
GMN 7272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9442
1984 HELMAN, Cecil G. (1944 – 2009)
Culture, health and illness.
Revised and expanded fifth edition, London: Hodder Arnold, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in healt…
GMN 9979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12168
1985 TOBIAS, Phillip Valentine (1925 – 2012)
History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa.
GMN 7273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9443
1985 BROWN, Frank Harold (1943 – 2017); HARRIS, John W. K.; LEAKEY, Richard Erskine Frere (1944 – )
Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya.
The Turkana Boy, (KNM-WT 15000) now called Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus fossil which was in 2016 the most complete early human skeleton found. It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth believed to be 1.5 …
GMN 7284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9454
1985 GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
GMN 9889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12077
1985 PARSONS, Claire D. F.
Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons
GMN 12550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14787
1986 BARSANTI, Giulio
Misur d’uomo. Strumenti, teorie e pratiche dell’antropometria e della psicologia sperimentale tra ‘800 e ‘900.
Extensively annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of books and instruments documenting the history of measuring techniques in physical anthropology and experimental psychology in the 18th and 19th centu…
GMN 197.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3508
1986 SPENCER, Frank (1941 – 1999)
Ecce Homo: An annotated bibliographic history of physical anthropology.
GMN 6979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9145
1986 ALEKSEYEV, Valery Pavlovich (ALEXEEV) (1929 – 1991)
The origin of the human race.
First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…
GMN 7283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9453
1987 STOCKING, George W. Jr. (1928 – 2013)
Victorian anthropology.
GMN 197.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3510
1988 DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
GMN 8791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10969
1988 FILDES, Valerie A.
Wet nursing: A history from antiquity to the present.
GMN 9105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11284
1988 PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.
GMN 10228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12418
1988 WALL, L. Lewis (1950 – )
Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.
GMN 10674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12867
1990 BURTON-BRADLEY, Sir Burton G. (1914 – 1994)
A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea.
GMN 9736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11923
1992 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902); ANDREE, Christian (1938 – )
Rudolf Virchow Sämtliche Werke. Herausgegeben von Christian Andree. 71 vols. anticipated.
From the number of volumes planned we may conclude that Virchow was one of the most prolific of all physicians. According to the Wikipedia article on Christian Andree, to which I have linked, volumes in this set were …
GMN 11406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13605
1993 WILBERT, Johannes
Tobacco and shamanism in South America.
A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.
GMN 9017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11196
1994 GROENEN, Marc
Pour une histoire de la préhistoire. Le paléolithique.
GMN 6980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9146
1994 WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – ); SUWA, Gen (1954 – ); ASFAW, Berhane (1954 – )
Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia.
Between 1992 and 1994 White and his team discovered the first Ardipithecus ramidus fossils in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. They named their discovery Ardipithecus ramidus (‘ramid’ means ‘root’ in the Afar langua…
GMN 7276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9446
1994 CAVALLI-SFORZA, Luigi Luca (1922 – ); MENOZZI, Paolo; PIAZZA, Alberto (1941 – )
The history and geography of human genes.
The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…
GMN 8538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10715
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 WILLIAMS, Elizabeth A. (1950 – )
The physical and the moral: Anthropology, physiology, and philosophical medicine in France, 1750-1850.
GMN 9890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12078
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 LEAKEY, Meave G. (1942 – ); FEIBEL, Craig S.
New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya.
In 1965, a research team led by Bryan Patterson from Harvard University discovered a single arm bone (KNM-KP 271) of an early human at Kanapoi in northern Kenya, but without additional fossils Patterson could not conf…
GMN 7278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9448
1995 ROEBROEKS, Wil (1955 – ); KOLFSCHOTEN, Matthijs van (1952 – )
The earliest occupation of Europe. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation workshop at Tautavel (France) 1993.
The first effort to present summaries of the evidence for earliest occupation in all the regions of Europe including Russia, edited by Roebroeks and van Kolfschoten.
GMN 7525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9697
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 SPENCER, Frank (1941 – 1999)
History of physical anthropology: An encyclopedia edited by Frank Spencer. 2 vols.
GMN 6978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9144
1997 CARBONELL, Eudald (1953 – ); ARSUAGA, Juan Luis (1954 – ); BERMÚDEZ DE CASTRO Y RISUEÑO, José María (1952 – ); ET AL
A hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: possible ancestor to Neandertals and modern humans.
Homo antecessor, an extinct human species (or subspecies) dating from 1.2 million to 800,000 years ago, discovered in the Sierra de Atapuerca region of Northern Spain. With A. Rosas, I Martinez and M. Mosquera.
GMN 7285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9455
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 KEHOE, Alice Beck (1934 – )
The land of prehistory: A critical history of American anthropology.
GMN 10182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12371
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 –2002 BYRD, W. Michael; CLAYTON, Linda A.
An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1900. Vol. 2: Race, medicine and health care in the United States 1900-2000.
GMN 8081 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10257
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
2000 STEPHENS, Lester D. (1933 – )
Science, race, and religion in the American South. John Bachman and the Charleston circle of naturalists, 1815-1895.
GMN 10339 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12531
2001 SENUT, Brigitte (1954 – ); PICKFORD, Martin (1943 – )
'Millennium Ancestor', a 6-million-year-old bipedal hominid from Kenya - Recent discoveries push back human origins by 1.5 million years.
Living around 6 million years ago, in the Tugen hills region of central Kenya, this species, named Orrorin tugenensis, had small teeth with thick enamel similar to modern humans. It climbed trees, but also probably wa…
GMN 7275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9445
2001 LEAKEY, Meave G. (1942 – )
New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.
In 1998 and 1999, working in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya, Meave Leakey and her team found a cranium and other fossil remains of a 3.5 million year old hominin with a mixture of features unseen in other e…
GMN 7279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9449
