... in The Horse and Buggy Doctor (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938 ) Ward B. Studt , Jerold G. Sorensen, and Beverly Burge, Medicine in the Intermountain West:A History of Health Care in Rural Areas of the West (Salt Lake City: Olympus Publishing Company, 1976 ) 2 Teddie Barlow, Mar...

...Melissa Walker Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 . Kay K. Moss . Book Reviews / 837 Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820. By Kay K. Moss. Columbia: Univer? sity of South Carolina Press, 1999. 259 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-157003-289-0. Public...

...Lisa Cox © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine . Edited by Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle . Athens : Ohio University Press , 2010 . 288 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0...

..., central states, and export economies. Amelia Hintzen Yale University Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Londa Schiebinger. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. 256 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-1-5036-0291-5. Londa Schiebinger s...

...Anthony P. Cavender; Donald B. Ball Abstract Vernacular human medicine, otherwise known as folk or popular medicine, has received considerable attention from scholars in the United States, but little research has been done on how lay people dealt with livestock ailments prior...

...Zachary Dorner [email protected] The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain . By Clare Hickman . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2021 . 288 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 9780300236101. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society 2023...

... by Herbert Hoover, the American Relief Administration sent food, clothing, and medicine to the Soviets, while the so-called radical relief groups demanded a more “permanent rehabilitation” of Soviet agriculture and sought to ship technologies and agricultural specialists. These visions were guided by more...

... Society 2022 In Herbs and Roots , Tamara Venit Shelton provides a sophisticated account of Chinese medicine in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing creatively from memoirs, interviews, archival documents, census information, newspaper articles...

... Society 2024 Ginseng Diggers is surprising by many turns—it reveals the earliness, the size, and the global reach of the medicinal herb market extending out of Appalachia, as well as the lesser-known circuits of nineteenth-century capital, in intense detail. For instance, regional trade in ginseng...

... that were forged between cattle, disease, and mortality; middleclass anxieties over adulteration of milk and milk products; and the construction of caste identities of specific subaltern groups around cattle. Switching between narratives of medicine, disease, and public health on the one hand and colonial...

..., and writing. Thick provides a glimpse into Plat s multifarious career through chapters on the subjects he investigated: gardening, agriculture, military food, cookery, alchemy, and medicine. Unfortunately, by splitting up Plat s work into standard disciplines, Thick may be encouraging the piecemeal...

... politics, economics, medicine, and agriculture, this fairly short book could have had more significance in the history of medieval food. The multicultural foodways of the Iberian Peninsula are certainly deserving of further research. The complex fourteenth-century manuscripts of the medical treatise...

... on military food and medicine, cookery, medicine, and inventions put Plat s writing squarely within its social and economic context and make his processes more clear, reinforcing Thick s idea of Plat s searching for useful knowledge. In this vein, the chapter on Moneymaking is particularly valuable...

... 2022 Sulphuric Utopias is a rich and multidimensional history of technological efforts to control diseases of commerce during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cowritten by a historian of medicine and a medical anthropologist, the book examines how fumigation machines...

... the development of pest and antibiotic resistance in medicine and agriculture. The elements involved in controlling diseases and pests are enormously complex, requiring a broad understanding of underlying interactions between the host, the environment, and the pest that result in health or disease...

..., character, and hygiene. This article reaffirms research by Judy Barrett Litoff, Debra Anne Susie, Gertrude Jacinta Fraser, Susan Smith, and Jenny M. Luke, who studied African American midwifery in the South from different disciplinary perspectives, including history, anthropology, and medicine. State...

... CaliforniaPress'sRights andPermissionswebsite,at httpwwwu. cpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. 147 148 / Agricultural History Chocolate is familiar today as part of daily routines, with highly pleasurable connotations, and as part of a global grocery economy involv- ing tropical foods, medicines, spices, and dyes that began...

...). The early chapters also provide a good review of colonial policies and correctly argue that veterinary medicine in colonial india embraced a broader agenda after the First World War. mishra rightly connects this broadening of outlook to the fact that veterinary medicine was coming out of the shadow...

... programs, and offers recommendations for recovering and maintaining freshwater biodiversity. Medicinal Plants: Rescuing a Global Heritage. World Bank Technical Pa? per 355. By John Lambert, Jitendra Srivastava, and Noel Vietmeyer. Wash? ington, D.C.: World Bank, 1997. 70 pp., $7.95, paperback, ISBN 0...

... Views on Environmental History , eds. James Beattie , Edward Melillo , and Emily O’Gorman ( London : Bloomsbury , 2015 ), 8 . 4. Philippa Mein Smith , “New Zealand Milk for ‘Building Britons,’” in Medicine and Colonial Identity , eds. Mary P. Sutphen and Bridie Andrews...