The Reinvention of Household Medicine by Enslaved Africans in Suriname
Enslaved Africans in Suriname faced not only a harsh environment and brutal conditions, but the challenge of sourcing therapeutically useful plants in an unfamiliar land. How did they discover medicinal herbs in the New World? Literature suggests that slave medicine was already well developed in eighteenth-century Suriname, while herbaria prove that Old World plants were present since 1687. Current vernacular plant names reveal European, Amerindian and African influence. Ethnobotanical research among present-day Afro-Surinamers and related West African groups demonstrates that although most plants used by Afro-Surinamers a...
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: van Andel, T. Tags: Medicine in the Household Source Type: research
Histories of Medicine in the Household: Recovering Practice and 'Reception
Introducing the essays in this special issue on medicine in the household, Bivins, Marland and Tomes briefly sketch the existing historiography and argue for the enduring importance of the household as a site of medical decision making and practice. The household as explored by this collection also offers a valuable space within which to test new methodologies addressing the challenges that face historians and other scholars seeking to trace the reception, adoption and adaptation of new knowledge, practices and products. (Source: Social History of Medicine)
Source: Social History of Medicine - December 7, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Bivins, R., Marland, H., Tomes, N. Tags: Medicine in the Household Source Type: research
Sharon R. Kaufman, Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Pickard, S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Petteri Pietikäinen, Madness. A History
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Hide, L. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Christopher Hamlin, More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Wald, P. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
James C. McCann, The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia. Deposing the Spirits
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Cummiskey, J. R. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Everett Yuehong Zhang, The Impotence Epidemic: Mens Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Dale, M. S. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Laura D. Hirshbein, Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Martin, S. C. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Robert Peckham (ed.), Disease and Crime: A History of Social Pathologies and the New Politics of Health
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Lux, E. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Scott H. Podolsky, The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Tomes, N. J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Roberta Bivins, Contagious Communities. Medicine, Migration and the NHS in Post-War Britain
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Taylor, B. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
S. D. Lamb, Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sadowsky, J. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, Jonas Salk: A Life
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Vargha, D. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Angela Davis, Pre-school Childcare in England, 1939-2010; Theory, Practice and Experience
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Jones, K. W. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
Tanya Hart, Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Womens Health in New York City, 1915-1930
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Source: Social History of Medicine - July 28, 2016 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Oltman, A. Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: research
