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385 entries match Americas (non-U.S.) [Z01.107]
1965 –1971
#9423
Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.
1967
#13602
One hundred years of medicine in Canada, 1867-1967.
1968
#7836
Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.
In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.
1968
#13997
Los Médicos y las Enfermedades de Monterrey [1881]. Memorias de Gonzalitos que se publican con una introducción sobre su vida y su obra por Francisco Guerra.
Edition by Francisco Guerra and first publication of a manuscript by Eleuterio in the Wellcome Library. According to the catalogue of the Wellcome archives the contents are as follows: "Los médicos y las enfermedades …
1969
#8840
La médecine de l'Amérique précolombienne.
1969
#8936
História da febre-amarela no Brasil.
Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.
1970
#8605
New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.
Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."
1971
#7934
La odontología en el México prehispánico.
1971
#10858
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
1971
#10871
Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios
1972
#9021
A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.
Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who came upon …
1972
#9917
Strong medicine: History of healing on the Northwest Coast.
1973
#9274
Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.
1974
#9285
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.
1975
#8843
Textos de medicina nahuatl.
1975
#11649
The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.
1976
#3705.05
Tooth mutilations and dentistry in pre-Columbian Mexico.
First edition in English. First edition, in Spanish, 1971.
1977
#8932
História geral da medicina brasileira. Vol. 1 (All published).
1977
#9045
Medicina aborigen.
1979
#13368
Evolution des sciences de la santé et de l'hygiène publique en Haiti. Vol.1, Fin de la période coloniale-1915.
1979
#14345
An annotated bibliography of Canadian medical periodicals, 1826-1975.
In 2002 David Crawford began updating this work online as Bibliography of Canadian health sciences periodicals 1826-1980. This and other related writings by Crawford are available at https://internatlibs.mcgill.ca/.
1981
#8841
Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.
1981 –1984
#12918
Historia de la odontologia en Cuba. Vol. 1: La colonia (1492-1898) Vol. 2: Intervencion norteamericana (1899-1902) (1906-1909). Periodo republicano 1902-1909, 1909-1940. Vol. 3: Peridodo republicano (1940-1958) Vol. 4: Cuba comunista y en el exilio (1959-1983).
A remarkably comprehensive history of dentistry for a small country.
1982
#10572
Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.
The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation r…
1983
#6786.27
An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Books and printed documents 1557-1821 from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, and manuscripts from the Americas 1575-1927. 540 items, usually with detailed notes.
1983 –1991
#8945
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …
1983
#9313
Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.
According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…
1984 –2000
#6584.1
Secondary sources in the history of Canadian medicine: A bibliography. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 was co-edited with Jacques Bernier.
1984
#6584.2
Health, disease and medicine. Essays in Canadian history.
1984
#6603.7
Historia general de medicina en México: México antiguo. Edited by Fernando Cortés. Tomo I.
1984
#7053
The Caribbean slave: A biological history.
1984
#9044
Historia general de la medicina en México: Medicina novohispana siglo XVI.
1985
#8820
Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
1987
#8842
Indian Medicine in highland Guatemala: The Pre-Hispanic and colonial periods .
1987
#9055
La medicina científica y el siglo XIX mexicano.
1987
#9900
Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
1988
#8791
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
1988
#11507
Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.
1989 –1990
#9043
Cuerpo humano e ideologia. Las concepciones de los antiguos nahauas. Third edition. 2 vols.
1989
#9049
Discursos medicinales. Edición del Mss. 2208 de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca. Introducción de Luis S. Granjel. Descripción bibliográfica de Teresa Santander. Transcripción de Gregorio del Ser Quijano y Luis E. Rodríguez-San Pedro.
Facsimile edtion and first publication of the first medical work written in Colombia, written between 1607 and 1611.
1989
#9050
Flora Huayaquilensis sive descriptiones et icones plantarum Huayaquilensium secundum systema linneanum digestae, auctore Johanne Tafalla. Tomus 1: Introductio historica et adnotationes ab Eduardo Estrella confectae et descriptiones. Tomus II: Icones.
Juan José Tafalla Navascués, a Spanish pharmacist, explored botany in Peru, Chile and Ecuador from 1780 to 1788 as part of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú under the direction of Hipólito Ruiz López y Jo…
1990
#7513
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
1990
#9234
Explorers of the Amazon.
The author was a noted explorer.
1990
#13343
The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.
1991
#10984
Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.
1992
#7594
Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.
1992
#8005
Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
1992
#8846
Viejo y nuevo continente: La medicina en el encuentro de dos mundos. Edited by J. M. López Piñero.
1992
#9046
La medicina en el Ecuador prehispánico.
1992
#13344