Durham, NC

1978 CE

#8495

Disease in African history.

1988 CE

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1989 CE

#8863

Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.

1995 CE

#13292

Changing sex: Transsexualism, technology, and the idea of gender.

1998 CE

#9682

Creating beauty to cure the soul: Race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery.

1999 CE

#7838

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

2003 CE

#7941

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

2003 CE

#8008

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

2006 CE

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

2006 CE

#12291

Curing the colonizers: Hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas.

Translated into French by the author as À la cure, les coloniaux ! Thermalisme, climatisme et colonisation française, 1830-1962. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

2007 CE

#7835

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

2011 CE

#7940

The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.

2012 CE

#12131

Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.

"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …

2019 CE

#12844

The African roots of marijuana.

"After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial s…