Facets

1794

#8004

Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...

Balmis conducted experimental trials on the effectiveness of two Mexican plants, agave and begonia, which were believed, according to folk medicine practices in Mexico, to cure syphilis and scrofula. The trials confir…

1937

#6464

Medicina aborigen americana.

1958

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

1971

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

1971

#10871

Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1988

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1992

#7594

Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.

1992

#13344

Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.

1993

#9017

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.

1993

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1994

#8864

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, …

1994

#9937

Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.

1994

#10090

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…

1996

#8010

Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.

1997

#9910

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…

2001

#12129

The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.

2003

#8008

From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.

2004

#9899

Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.

2006

#9911

Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.

2014

#7837

Border medicine: A transcultural history of Mexican American curanderismo.

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…

2017

#10665

The experiential Caribbean: Creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic.

"Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially ba…