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12 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700] · Alternative & Fringe Medicine [G02.403.750 / M01] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]
2000 CE
#11184
Acupuncture, expertise and cross-cultural medicine.
1963 CE
#7868
Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
Colden was the first distinguished American woman botanist. Her work is known only from an untitled manuscript by her on the flora of the lower Hudson River Valley of New York that is preserved in the Natural History …
1980 CE
#6374.9
Celestial lancets: A history and rationale of acupuncture and moxa.
A section of Needham’s Science and civilisation in China series, separately published. Includes the best bibliography of early Western treatises on acupuncture.
1992 CE
#7043
Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.
Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…
1979 CE
#9158
Female complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the business of women's medicine.
"The original 1875 recipe called for unicorn root, life root, blach cohosh, pleurisy root, and fenugreek seed, but alcohol (18-20 percent) gave it a longer shelf life, and shrewd advertising assured its staying power.…
1994 CE
#11168
Healing traditions: Alternative medicine and the health professions.
"The popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In Healing Traditions, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of West…
1971 CE
#10673
Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.
1939 CE
#6465.1
Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…
1988 CE
#8788
Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.
2007 CE
#11171
Science and the imagination: Mesmerism, media, and the mind in nineteenth-century English and American literature.
1946 CE
#8741
The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.
The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…
2007 CE
#13645