Facets

1928

#10118

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.

Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…

1929

#8812

The work of medical women in India.

1937

#4671

Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.

1983

#6604.81

Australia’s quest for colonial health. Some influences on early health and medicine in Australia.

A collective work edited by Pearn and O’Carrigan.

1989

#7081

Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs and catalogue of Thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1996

#11852

Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.

The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…

1999

#10092

A flourishing Yin: Gender in China's medical history: 960-1665.

2016

#11437

Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.

2017

#10971

A heavy reckoning: War, medicine and survival in Afghanistan and beyond.

2017

#11435

Traditional medicine in the colonial Philippines: 16th to the 19th century.

2018

#10645

Knowledge, power, and women's reproductive health in Japan, 1690–1945.