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12 entries match Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500] · Social & Political History [K01.850]

1909

#8797

Zulu medicine and medicine-men.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1976

#10312

A service to the sick: A history of the health services for Africans in Southern Rhodesia (1890-1953).

1992

#8414

The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.

The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…

1992

#9264

The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.

1997

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

1999

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2006

#8285

Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.

2009

#11242

Ottoman medicine: Healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700.

2010

#8275

A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.

2013

#8300

Medicine and society in Ptolemaic Egypt.

2015

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.