Home Medicine: The Newfoundland Experience

John K. Crellin

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press 1994

Home Medicine

The Newfoundland Experience

John K. Crellin

Volume 1 in the series McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773564787

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About this book

John Crellin assesses popular home remedies from amulets to Zam-Buk ointment, revealing traditional - often ingenious - ways of coping with common health problems. Home Medicine is both a comprehensive reference to folk cures and self-treatment and a social history of pharmaceutical practices and products in Newfoundland.

Reviews

"Home Medicine makes an important contribution to Canadian medical history, which to date has concentrated on institutional, therapeutic, and professional advances and which all too often trivializes the non-professional approach." Michael Smith, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Self-Treatment: A Kaleidoscope
Newfoundland Snapshots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Commercialism and Change, c. 1900-1950 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Physician and Patient: Attitudes and Interactions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Self-Care: Effectiveness and Community Roles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Ailments, Treatments, Concepts
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
From Abortion to Zam-Buk Ointment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 288

eBook

Published: September 7, 1994
ISBN: 9780773564787