Facets

1992

#13605

Trois siècles d'histoire médicale au Québec: Chronologie des institutions et des pratiques, 1639-1939.

1993

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1993

#9054

La experiencia americana y la terapéutica en los Secretos de Chirurgia (1567), de Pedro Arias de Benavides.

1993

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1993

#12435

Cyclospora species - A new protozoan pathogen of humans.

Ortega and colleagues identified a novel parasite resembling C. muris in the feces of Peruvian patients and 2 U.S. patients, with symptoms resembling those of infections with Cryptosporidium. The parasite infected bot…

1994

#8864

Home medicine: The Newfoundland experience.

"Based on material from the Folklore Archives at Memorial University as well as other sources, Crellin's catalogue includes such topics as abortion, baldness and hair preparations, blood-letting, cancer, drunkenness, …

1994

#9298

Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.

1994

#9937

Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.

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…

1994

#11889

Coca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.

Traces the arguments of the participants in the coca debates in Peru during the last four centuries. Gagliano surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's socio-political history, focusing on coca usage as a source of contr…

1994

#12436

A new coccidian parasite (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from humans.

Based on very high magnification electron transmission micrographs and contrast microscopy, Ortega and colleagues fully characterized the parasite and named it Cyclospora cayetanensis n. sp., naming it after Universid…

1994

#13190

Bibliographie medicale des Antilles Françaises: Imprimés médicaux dans les colonies françaises des Antilles sous l'Ancien Regime: Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, La Martinique, Sainte-Lucie, Grénade et Guyane, 1765-1805.

1995

#8845

El mestizaje cultural y la medicina Novohispana del siglo XVI. Edited by J. L. Fequet Febrer and J. M. López Piñero.

1995

#10083

Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.

Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.

1995

#10086

Historia de la medicina chilena.

1996

#8010

Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.

1996

#8926

Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.

"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…

1996

#9299

Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.

1996 –2006

#11012

McGill medicine: The first half century, 1829-1885. McGill medicine: The second half century, 1885-1936. 2 vols.

The second volume was co-authored by Hanaway, Creuss, and James Darragh.

1996

#13601

History of the Canadian Medical Association, 1954-94.

1997

#8862

A ciéncia dos trópicos: A arte médica no Brasil do sécolo XVIII.

1997

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…

1997

#11050

Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.

1997

#13604

Histoire du Collège des médecins du Québec, 1847-1997.

1998

#9901

Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.

1998

#10574

Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.

"The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it…

1998

#13325

The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.

1998

#14153

Anderson Ruffin Abbott: First Afro-Canadian doctor

"Anderson Ruffin Abbott, son of a wealthy properties speculator, pursued a classical education in preparation for a professional career. Graduating from the Toronto School of Medicine in 1861 he became the first Canad…

1999

#7838

Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.

1999

#8937

Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.

1999

#9048

Bosquejo de la historia de la medicina colombiana.

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

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

2001

#12129

The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.

2002

#7983

Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.

2003

#7941

Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.

2003

#8008

From popular medicine to medical populism: Doctors, healers, and public power in Costa Rica, 1800–1940.

2003

#10183

A pest in the land: New World epidemics in a global perspective.

2004

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…

2004

#9899

Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.

2005

#8831

A new world of animals: Early modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America.

2006

#8935

Boticas & pharmacias: Uma historia ilustrada da farmacia no Brasil.

2006

#9911

Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.

2007

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

2007

#11934

Bacteremia, fever, and splenomegaly caused by a newly recognized Bartonella species.

The authors described an organism resembling, but different from, Bartonella bacilliformis (Oroya fever) on a patient returning from Peru. The patient recalled numerous insect bites on her legs and feet during her tri…

2008

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2008

#10082

Health transitions in Arctic populations. Edited by T. Kue Young and Peter Bjerregaard.

Concerns indigenous and non-indigenous people in five Arctic regions: Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska, Arctic Russia, and Northern Fennoscandia (Scandinavia).

2008

#10187

Medicine and technology in Canada, 1900-1950.

2008

#12555

At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.

",,, an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the p…