Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

915. MORRISON, Robert G. “The Solar Model in
Joseph ibn Joseph ibn Nahmias’ Light of the World.”
Arab. Sci. Phil. 15 (2005): 57–108.
916. ROBINSON, James T. “The First References in
Hebrew to al-Bit.rūjī’s On the Principles of Astronomy.”
Aleph 3 (2003): 145–163.
250-111. ASTROLOGY
917. BEN-SHAMMAI, Haggai. “Saadia’s Introduction
to Daniel: Prophetic Calculation of the End of
Days vs. Astrological and Magical Speculation.”
Aleph 4 (2004): 11–87.
918. RODRÍGUEZ ARRIBAS, Josefina. “Un horóscopo
de Israel en el Comentario a Números de Abraham
ibn ‘Ezra.’ ” MHNH 3 (2003): 203–215.
“This article is about the relations between Israel and God
through elements involved in the astrological practice and
theory.” (from the abstract)
919. SELA, Shlomo. “Queries on Astrology Sent
from Southern France to Maimonides: Critical Edition
of the Hebrew Text, Translation, and Commentary.”
Aleph 4 (2004): 89–190.
250-120. EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
920. ALTMANN, Alexander. “Judah Halevi’s Theory
of Climates.” Translated from the Arabic by Lenn J.
SCHRAMM. Aleph 5 (2005): 215–246.
250-150. MEDICAL SCIENCES IN GENERAL
921. BOS, Gerrit, and Guido MENSCHING. “The
Literature of Hebrew Medical Synonyms: Romance
and Latin Terms and Their Identification.” Aleph 5
(2005): 169–211.
922. HONG, Seong-Hyuk. “The Metaphor of Illness
and Healing in Hosea and Its Significance in the
Socio-Economic Context of Eighth-Century Israel
and Judah.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/04 (2004): 1405.
Dissertation at Graduate Theological Union, 2004. Adviser:
Chaney, Marvin L. UMI pub. no. 3129397. 280 pp.
923. LANGERMANN, Y. Tzvi. “From My Notebooks:
Masih bin Hakam, a Jewish-Christian (?)
Physician of the Early Ninth Century.” Aleph 4
(2004): 283–297.
924. WEINBERG, Adam. “A Case of Cranial Sugery
in the Talmud.” J. Hist. Neurosci. 15 (2006): 102–
110.
260. NATIVE AMERICAN CONTEXTS
260-1. GENERAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
925. BASTIEN, Betty. Blackfoot Ways of Knowing:
The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi. Edited by Jurgen
W. KREMER. Calgary: Univ. of Calgary Press, 2004.
ISBN: 1552381099.
260-103. MATHEMATICS
926. BROKAW, Galen. “Toward Deciphering the
Khipu.” J. Interdis. Hist. 35 (2004): 571–589.
Essay review of Gary URTON, Signs of the Inka Khipu (2003).
260. Native American contexts 49
260-123. ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCES
927. BINNEMA, Theodore. Common and Contested
Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the
Northwestern Plains. (xvi + 263 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.;
index.) Norman, Okla.: Univ. of Oklahoma Press,
2001. ISBN: 0806133619.
Concerns the environmental relations among the Native
Americans and Europeans.
260-124. PALEONTOLOGY
928. MAYOR, Adrienne. Fossil Legends of the First
Americans. (xxxix + 446 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN:
0691113459.
On the Native American attempts to explain the fossils of
dinosaurs before the European contact.
260-144. LINGUISTICS
929. RAMOS, Jânia Martins, and Renato Pinto
VENÂNCIO. “Abismo ou continuidades? Polêmicas
sobre o tupi pré-colonial e a língua geral disseminada
pelos jesuítas [Abysm or continuities? Polemics
surrounding pre-colonial Tupi and the ‘general language’
disseminated by the Jesuits].” Manguinhos 12
(2005): 581–583.
Essay review of José Ribamar Bessa FREIRE and Maria
Carlota ROSA (eds.), Línguas Gerais (2003).
260-150. MEDICAL SCIENCES IN GENERAL
930. AHENAKEW, Alice. Âh-âyîtaw isi êkî-kiskêyihtahkik
maskihkiy. Edited by Freda
AHENAKEW and H. Christoph WOLFART. Translated
title: [They knew both sides of medicine: Cree
tales of curing and cursing.] In Cree. (viii + 314 pp.;
map; bibl.; index.) Winnipeg: Univ. of Manitoba
Press, 2000. ISBN: 0887556493.
Text in English and Cree
931. JONES, David Shumway. Rationalizing Epidemics:
Meanings and Uses of American Indian
Mortality since 1600. (xii + 294 pp.; ill.) Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2004. ISBN:
0674013050.
Reviews: [ref. R467]
260-151. PSYCHIATRY; MEDICAL AND CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGY
932. WALDRAM, James B. Revenge of the Windigo:
The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of
North American Aboriginal Peoples. Anthropological
Horizons. (xii + 414 pp.; bibl.; index.) Toronto: Univ.
of Toronto Press, 2004. ISBN: 0802088260.
“Documents how anthropologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists
have misunderstood and misconstructed aboriginal
mental health.” (from review, Bull. Hist. Med.) Reviews:
[ref. R947]
260-152. HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND PUBLIC
HEALTH
933. STECKEL, Richard H. “Health and Nutrition in
Pre-Columbian America: The Skeletal Evidence.” J.
Interdis. Hist. 36 (2005): 1–32.