Facets

1984

#10327

History of the black physician in Indianapolis 1870 to 1980.

1988

#9291

The use of medicinal plants by the Alaska natives.

1990

#10874

The medicine men: Oglala Sioux ceremony and healing.

1994

#10084

The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.

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…

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

#8205

Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.

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.

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

#10335

Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.

"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…

2001

#10534

Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.

2002

#9624

Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.

2002

#10410

Native American healing: A Lacota ritual.

Medical rituals of the Lacota people.

2005

#10515

Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.

2006

#8090

Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.

2007

#7506

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

2007

#10371

Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.

2008

#10798

Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.

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…

2010

#7752

Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.

Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War.

2010

#8085

Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.

2012

#7891

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

2012

#8206

Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.

2012

#9977

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

2014

#7754

African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.

Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.

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…

2018

#10755

To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.

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.