2001 QUIGLEY, Christine (1963 – )
Skulls and skeletons: Human bone collections and accumulations.
GMN 10707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12901
2001 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.
GMN 10799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12995
2002 BRUNET, Michel (1940 – )
A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, central Africa.
The first paper on Sahelanthropus tchadensis, dating from between 7 and 6 million years ago in West Central Africa (northern Chad). This species had a combination of ape-like and human-like features. Ape-like elements…
GMN 7274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9444
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 HANDLER, Richard
Edited ancestors, inventible traditions: Essays toward a more inclusive history of anthropology. Edited by Richard Handler.
GMN 8542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10719
2002 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882); VAN WYHE, John (1971 – )
Darwin Online. The complete works of Charles Darwin, edited by John van Wyhe.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/AboutUs.html Darwin's Complete Publications Books Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Descent of Man... Articles Volcanic, Darwin-Wallace paper... Published Letters Life and letters, D…
GMN 8706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10884
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
2002 –2005 SCHWARTZ, Jeffrey Hugh (1948 – ); TATTERSALL, Ian (1945 – ); HOLLOWAY, Ralph Leslie Jr. (1935 – ); BROADFIELD, Douglas C.; YUAN, Michael S.
The human fossil record. 4 vols.
Vol. 1: Terminology and Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Europe). Vol. 2: Craniodental morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia). Vol. 3: Brain endocasts—the paleoneurological evidence. Vol. 4: Crandiodental mo…
GMN 11243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13440
2003 SPOOR, Fred; HUBLIN, Jean-Jacques (1953 – ); ZONNEFELD, Frans W.
The bony labyrinth of Neanderthals.
Computed tomography of the inner ear of 20 Neanderthal specimens directed by Spoor showed that the Neanderthal semicircular canal is subtly distinct in size, shape, and orientation from that of modern humans. With Mar…
GMN 7261 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9430
2003 STAUM, Martin S. (1943 – )
Labeling people: French scholars on society, race, and empire, 1815-1848.
GMN 11903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14108
2004 BROWN, Peter; MORWOOD, Michael John (1950 – 2013)
A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia.
In 2003 a joint Indonesian-Australian research team led by Michael Morwood found LB-1—a nearly complete female skeleton of a tiny human that lived about 80,000 years ago—in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indo…
GMN 7286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9456
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
2006 MOLINA, Natalia (1971 – )
Fit to be citizens? Public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939.
GMN 13702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15984
2006 SCHWARTZ, Jeffrey Hugh (1948 – )
Race and the odd history of human paleontology.
Abstract: "Although the late 17th century witnessed the recognition of fossils as the remains of extinct organisms—because they could be incorporated into the creation story embodied in the Great Chain of Being—accept…
GMN 14041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16349
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
2007 MANTEGAZZA, Paolo (1831 – 1910); PIREDDU, Nicoletta
The physiology of love and other writings. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu. Translated by David Jacobson.
GMN 12505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14739
2007 RETZIUS, Magnus Gustaf (1842 – 1919); LINDBLAD, Thomas
Gustaf Retzius: A Biography by Thomas Lindblad. With special contributions by Gunnar Grant, Björn Afzelius, Olle Johansson & Markku Virtanen, Helge Rask-Andersen, Torstein Sjøvold. Editor: Ove Hagelin.
A finely written and superbly illustrated and produced study of Retzius's life and published works, issued in the style of Retzius's magnificent publications.
GMN 14074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16385
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 LEWIS, David Jr.; JORDAN, Ann T.
Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
GMN 12097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14306
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
2008 PITTS-TAYLOR, Victoria
Cultural encyclopedia of the body. Edited by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. 2 vols.
GMN 13515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15790
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
2009 WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – ); ASFAW, Berhane (1954 – ); HAILE-SELASSIE, Yohannes (1961 – ); BEYENE, Yonas; ET AL
Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids.
The authors provide evidence that Ardipithecus may be the beginning of the evolutionary pathway that eventually led to hominids. This pathway was distinct from the evolutionary pathway that led to extant African apes.…
GMN 14083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16394
2010 BERGER, Lee Rogers (1960 – )
Australopithecus sediba: A New Species of Homo-Like Australopith from South Africa.
Matthew Berger, the young son of Lee Berger, discovered the first specimen of Australopithecus sediba, the right clavicle of MH1, on the 15th of August in 2008. This species of Australopithecus dates to about 2 millio…
GMN 7280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9450
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 BASHFORD, Alison (1963 – ); LEVINE, Philippa Judith Amanda (1957 – )
The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine.
GMN 7844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10016
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 MANDAVILLE, James P.
Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.
GMN 9708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11895
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
2013 KRUTAK, Lars (1971 – )
The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.
Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link.
GMN 13740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16024
2014 OWSLEY, Douglas W. (1951 – ); JANTZ, Richard L.
Kennewick man: The scientific investigation of an ancient American skeleton. Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz.
" This volume resents the results of the most comprehensive scientific study of one of the most complete ancient human skeletons ever found in North America" (from the introduction). "Kennewick Man is the name general…
GMN 10087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12276
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
2014 CECCHI, Jacopo Moggi; STANYON, Roscoe
Il Museo di storia naturale dell'Università degli studi di Firenze. Vol. 5, Le collezioni antropologiche ed etnologiche.
GMN 13210 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15473
2015 ABU-RABIA, Aref
Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.
GMN 8790 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10968
2015 SHEPHARD, Roy Jesse (1929 – )
An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.
1077 pages.
GMN 10119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12308
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 SOMMER, Marianne (1971 – )
History within: The science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules.
GMN 8539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10716
2016 ERICKSON, Paul A (1941 – ); MURPHY, Liam D.
A history of anthropological theory. 5th edition.
GMN 8826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11004
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
