Facets

2010

#12723

Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.

2010

#13650

Cambodians and their doctors: A medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia.

Digital facsimile from diva-portal.org at this link.

2011

#8247

The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.

2011

#8615

Childbirth in republican China: Delivering modernity.

2011

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

2011

#10022

Mixed medicines: Health and culture in French colonial Cambodia.

2011

#10918

Fever with thrombocytopenia associated with a novel Bunyavirus in China.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Yu, Liang, Zhang. Discovery of a new virus, suspected by the authors to be tick-borne. The authors named the virus, "severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus" (SFTSV…

2011

#11469

The Japanese pharmaceutical industry: Its evolution and current challenges.

2011

#11809

Stitches in time: Two centuries of surgery in Papua New Guinea.

Covers the period from 1800 to about 2005.

2012

#8292

Hospitals in Iran and India, 1500-1950s. Edited by Fabrizio Speziale.

2012

#8707

Wallace online, directed by John van Wyhe.

http://wallace-online.org/ "Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, including the first compilation of his specimens. The project is directed by John van Wyhe,…

2012

#9302

Ethnobotany of the Kondh, Poraja, Gadaba and Bonda of the Koraput region of Odisha, India.

"This volume discusses the history and importance of ethnobotany with specific reference to four tribal communities of Odisha, India. It begins with an account of the nature of the tribes involved in the study. Based …

2012

#10584

Illustrated Suśruta Samhitā. Translated by K. R. Srikantha Murthy. 3 vols.

2012

#10668

Democratic governance & health: Hospitals, Politics and health policy in New Zealand.

"New Zealand is the only country in the world where elected health boards have long been a core feature of the health care system. These boards are conceptually important and aspirational for policy-makers and communi…

2012

#12805

Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.

2013

#8097

Between flesh and steel: A history of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the war in Afghanistan.

2013

#8929

Dispelling the darkness: Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery of evolution by Wallace and Darwin.

2014

#7289

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains.

First complete sequence of a Neanderthal genome. With more than 20 co-authors. In 2022 Pääbo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and hu…

2014

#10097

Bodies in balance: The art of Tibetan medicine. Edited by Theresia Hofer.

The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Sowa Rigpa was influenced by Chinese, Ind…

2014

#12296

Doctors of empire: Medical and cultural encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan

2014

#12722

Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.

"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…

2014

#12839

Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.

2014

#13213

Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos.

2015

#8012

U. S. Army psychiatry in the Vietnam War: New challenges in extended counterinsurgency warfare.

2015

#8042

Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.

Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.

2015

#8290

The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes

Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…

2015

#8583

A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by Lásló Károly.

"...the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia.... The author offers a critical edition of a seventeent…

2015

#9706

Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.

2015

#9957

Wounds and wound repair in medieval culture. Edited by Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries.

Essays on a wide range of aspects of wounds during the Middle Ages, particularly resulting from war and violence, but also those of Christ, from ca. 1000 CE to the 15th century in the West (England, Ireland, Scotland,…

2015

#10919

Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Luo, Zhao, Wen. Discovery that the tick H longicornis can transmit the SFTSV transstadially and transovarially, and could potentially be both the reservoir and vector of the …

2015

#11923

The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.

2015

#12545

A history of the Medical Council of New Zealand. Compiled by Richard Sainsbury.

Available only as a PDF from ncnz.org at this link.

2016

#9479

Childbirth, maternity, and medical pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945.

2016

#9895

Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.

"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…

2016

#10096

Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.

2016

#10420

Novel medicine: Healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China.

"By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth ce…

2016

#11437

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

2016

#11956

Nature's colony: Empire, nation and environment in the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

2016

#12727

Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.

"Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close…

2016

#13782

Toxic histories: Poison and pollution in modern India.

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

#10540

Culture persane et médecine ayurvédique en Asie du Sud.

"... discusses interactions between Ayurveda and Persian medical culture in South Asia. It presents, for the first time, a study of the Persian translation movement of Ayurvedic sources that took place from the fourte…

2018

#10645

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

2018

#12567

Military medicine in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comprehensive review. Edited by Ian Greaves.

A report from the British Defence Medical Services.

2019

#10916

A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from ne…

2020

#12074

A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin.

This article was published in Nature on 3 February 2020. Prior to that a version with a different title and numerous other co-authors was published in bioRxiv on 23 January 2020, as "Discovery of a novel coronavirus a…

2020

#12119

A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Wu, Zhao...Holmes, Zang. This was the first paper written in China, and published in a Western language, on the first COVID-19 patient admitted to any Wuhan hospital on…

2021

#13785

Ordering the myriad things: From traditional knowledge to scientific botany in China.

"China’s vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geographies, and specialized anthologies of verse and prose written by ke…