Facets

1997

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1998

#9642

"Every man his own doctor." Popular medicine in early America: An exhibition drawn from the collections of Charles E. Rosenberg, William H. Helfand and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

1999

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.

1999

#9745

Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.

2000

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2001

#9280

Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.

2001

#9408

The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.

"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …

2002

#10410

Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.

Medical rituals of the Lacota people.

2003

#9631

Folk medicine in southern Appalachia.

2006

#8656

A most amazing scene of wonders: Electricity and enlightenment in early America.

"By examining the lives and visions of natural philosophers, spectacular showmen, religious preachers and medical therapists, he shows how electrical experiences of wonder, terror, and awe were connected to a broad ar…

2007

#7506

Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,

2008

#12097

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…

2009

#12095

Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.

"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…

2012

#7891

Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2012

#9977

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.

2014

#7837

Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.

2015

#7504

Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.

2015

#10275

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…

2015

#10341

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…

2019

#12094

Fighting invisible enemies: Health and medical transitions among Southern California Indians.

"Native Americans long resisted Western medicine--but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs reluctantly entered the business of health and medicine, Nat…

2021

#13271

Strong hearts and healing hands: Southern California Indians and field nurses, 1920-1950.