Facets

1993

#9301

The cultural relations of classification: An analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram.

The Nuaulu or Naulu are a tribe located in Seram, Maluku, Indonesia.

1994

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

1994

#9226

Medical Department, United States Army Surgery in Vietnam orthopedic surgery. Orthopedic surgery in Vietnam. Edited by William E. Burkhalter.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1995

#7787

Effects of atomic radiation: A half-century of studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1995

#12544

Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.

1995

#12549

Samoan herbal medicine. O Lā'au ma Vai Fofō o Samoa.

1996

#7079

Descriptive catalogue of the Hindi manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the the History of Medicine.

1996

#8214

Health care in Java: past and present. Edited by Peter Boomgaard, Rosalia Sciortino and Ines Smyth.

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…

1997

#10030

Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.

1998

#8018

The Medical Department: Medical service in the war against Japan. United States Army in World War II: The technical services.

1998

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.

1998

#12812

Catalogue of the Burmese-Pāli and Burmese Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicince.

Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.

1999 –2002

#7216

A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.

Comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia.

1999

#10092

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

1999

#10093

Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.

Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…

1999

#10571

Bibliografía médica americana y filipina: Periodo formativo. 2 vols.

1999

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

2000

#7265

Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 6: Biology and Biological Technology. Part VI: Medicine. By Joseph Needham with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen, edited and with an introduction by Nathan Sivin.

2000

#12728

Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.

2001

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

2001

#9451

Jamu: The ancient Indonesian art of herbal healing.

2001

#10892

A doctor in the garden: Nomen medici in botanicis. Australian flora and the world of medicine.

2002

#8706

Darwin Online. The complete works of Charles Darwin, edited by John van Wyhe.

http://darwin-online.org.uk/AboutUs.html Darwin's Complete Publications Books Origin of Species, Voyage of the Beagle, Descent of Man... Articles Volcanic, Darwin-Wallace paper... Published Letters Life and letters, D…

2002

#12661

The flight of the Emu: A hundred years of Australian ornithology 1901-2001.

2002

#13567

Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.

"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…

2003

#9746

Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

A very wide-ranging selection of essays

2003

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

2003

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

2003

#11744

A history of cocaine: The mystery of coca Java and the Kew plant.

This work is not actually a "history", rather it contains translations, with commentary, of three late nineteenth and early twentieth century treatises on coca and cocaine, plus other documents. "An exploration of the…

2004

#7286

A new small-bodied hominin from the Late Pleistocene of Flores, Indonesia.

In 2003 a joint Indonesian-Australian research team led by Michael Morwood found LB-1—a nearly complete female skeleton of a tiny human that lived about 80,000 years ago—in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indo…

2004

#7312

British naturalists in Qing China: science, empire and cultural encounter.

2004

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

2004

#10759

Narcotic culture: A history of drugs in China.

2004

#13657

The history of ophthalmology in Japan.

2005

#7150

Chinese medicine in early communist China, 1945-63.

Describes the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, sidelined medical practice of the early 20th century to an essential and high profile part of the national health care system under the Chinese Communi…

2005

#8700

The cultivation of whiteness: Science, health and racial destiny in Australia.

2006

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

2006

#8585

Daily life in the Mongol empire.

Chapter 6: Health and Medicine.

2006

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

2006

#12551

Samoan medical belief and practice.

"...the first comprehensive study of Samoan medicine. Cluny and La‘avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofo, in Western Samoa …

2006

#13890

Expunging variola: The control and eradication of smallpox in India 1947-1977.

2008

#9231

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A series of cases, 2003-2007. Edited by Shawn Christian Nessen, Dave Edmond Lounsbury, and Stephen P. Hetz.

Exceptionally well illustrated with color photographs.

2008

#10246

Navy medicine in Vietnam: Oral histories from Dien Bein Phu to the fall of Saigon.

2008

#12724

Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.

Abstract: "Traditional medicine use is common in developing countries and increasingly popular in the western world. Despite the popularity of traditional medicines, scientific research on safety and efficacy is limit…

2009

#9267

Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.

2009

#11825

Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.

"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…

2009

#12666

Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.

"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of d…

2010

#7465

Pulse diagnosis in early Chinese medicine: The telling touch. Wih an annotated translation of the Memoir of Chunyu Yi (Canggong zhuan) in the 105th chapter of The Records of the Historian (Shi ji, ca 86 BCE) by Sima Quian, and an anthropological analysis of the first ten medical case histories.

2010

#8016

Navy medicine in Vietnam: Passage to freedom to the fall of Saigon.