Facets

1981

#8335

Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.

1981

#13554

Mystical Bedlam: Madness, anxiety, and healing in seventeenth-century England.

"Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over …

1983

#8612

Catalogue of the Maurice M. and Jean H. Tinterow collection of works on mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnotism.

1983

#10868

Sorcerers and healing spirits: Continuity and change continuity in an Aboriginal medical system.

1985

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

1985

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

1986

#7381

Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France.

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1988

#5019.21

Animal magnetism, early hypnotism, and psychical research, 1766-1925. An annotated bibliography.

Describes 1905 works, mostly with detailed annotations.

1988

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

1988

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1988

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1989

#7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990

#8877

Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.

1990

#10873

Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

Shamanism may have originated among the Turkic peoples of Siberia. English translations of studies by Russian scholars with an introduction and a thorough bibliography.

1990

#10874

The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.

1991

#9673

Enter the physician: The transformation of domestic medicine, 1760-1860.

1991

#10409

The great American medicine show: Being an illustrated history of hucksters, healers, health evangelists and heroes from plymouth rock to the present.

1992

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

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

#9744

Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.

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…

1994

#11168

Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.

"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…

1995

#9269

Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.

"Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to mode…

1996

#8010

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

1996

#9290

Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.

1997

#9344

Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.

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…

1997

#9936

Coyote medicine: Lessons from native American healing.

By a Stanford-trained MD of Cherokee descent.

1998

#9296

Warts: Summary of Wart-cure survey for the Folklore Society.

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.

1998

#12572

Black folk medicine: The therapeutic significance of faith and trust. Edited by Wilbur H. Watson.

1998

#12779

Healers and healing in early modern Europe.

"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…

1999

#7379

From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic sleep and the roots of psychological healing.

1999

#9277

Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.

1999

#9745

Southern folk medicine 1750-1820.

2000

#8030

African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.

2000

#9743

Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.

2000

#11184

Acupuncture, expertise and cross-cultural medicine.

2000

#13428

Heil und Heilung: Geschichte der Laienheilkundigen und Struktur antimodernistischer Weltanschauungen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik am Beispiel von Eugen Wenz (1856-1945).

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 …

2001

#12129

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

2002

#9088

"Der Charlatan strebt nicht nach Wahrheit, er verlangt nur nach Geld". Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Medizin und Laienmedizin im deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel von Hypnotismus und Heilmagnetismus.

2003

#8008

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