Facets

1980

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1983

#12632

Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.

Abstract "Ivermectin is the 22,23-dihydro derivative of avermectin B1, a macrocyclic lactone produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces avermitilis. It is active at extremely low dosage against a wide variety of nemato…

1985

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

1988

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1990

#14340

Phage antibodies: Filamentous phage displaying antibody variable domains.

Working in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, Winter became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the same basic structure, with only small changes making them specific for one targ…

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.

1996

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

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…

1998

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

2004

#9899

Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.

2009

#8645

Medical research for hire: The political economy of pharmaceutical clinical trials.

2011

#9708

Bedouin ethnobotany: Plant concepts and uses in a desert pastoral world.

2012

#8799

Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.

2013

#13740

The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link.

2015

#10275

A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.

"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…

2015

#14260

NOBEL LECTURE: Discovery of Artemisinin - A gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world.

In 1972 Tu Youyou discovered Artemisinin, the standard treatment worldwide for P. falciparum malaria as well as malaria due to other species of Plasmodium. Artemisinin is extracted from Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood…

2019

#13741

Therapeutic tattooing in the Arctic: Ethnographic, archaeological, and ontological frameworks of analysis.

Digital facsimile from Academia.edu at this link.