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Native Hawaiian Healing Practices

Selected Sources Compiled for the JABSOM Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence

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Articles

Bushnell, O.A. "Ka'oihana La'au Lapa'au O Hawaii Kahiko." Malamalama. Winter 1967, p. 8-11.
Queen's Historical Room, Hawaiian Medicine clippings box

Catton, Margaret M.L. "Kahunas." Sundry Letters, Papers, Reports Relevant to Medical Social Service. Mamiya Medical Heritage Center, Hawaii Medical Library.
Hawaiiana Collection, Box 37 Folder M-N, HI 436

Davison, Charles. "Hawaiian Medicine." The Queen's Hospital Bulletin, 1927 August;4(3).
Hawaiiana Collection, Box 48, HI 462

Davison, Charles. "Hawaiian Medicine: Second Installment." The Queen's Hospital Bulletin,1927 September;4(4).
Hawaiiana Collection, Box 48, HI 462

Force, Roland W. "Medical Lore." The Conch Shell, Bishop Museum News, 1966; 3,4:39-48.

Gulick, L. "On the Climate, Diseases and Materia Medica of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands." New York Journal of Medicine. 1855 Mar; 8(14):169-211.
Hawaiiana Collection, Box 54, HI 538

Hope, Bradley, Douglas G. Massey, Gisele Fournier-Massey. "Hawaiian Materia Medica for Asthma." Hawaii Medical Journal. 1993 June; 52(6):160-166.

Larsen, Nils P. "Exhibit of Pacific Ocean Medical Artefacts," 1st Annual Meeting of the Territorial Association of Plantation Physicians. 1944, p. 89-91.

Larsen, Nils P. "Medical Art in Ancient Hawaii," Reprinted from the 53rd Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society. Honolulu, 1944. p. 27-44.

Larsen, Nils P. "Rededication of the Healing Heiau Keaiwa," Reprinted from the 60th Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society. Honolulu, 1951. p.7-16.

Pukui, Mary Kawena. "Hawaiian Beliefs and Customs During Birth, Infancy and Childhood." Occasional Papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum 1942 March 20; 16(17):357-381.
Bishop Museum Library Reference AS763 B62o 16:17  Bishop Museum

Tabrah, F.L. and B.M. Eveleth. "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Ancient Hawaiian Medicine." Hawaii Medical Journal. 1966 Jan-Feb; 25(3):223-230.


Books

Briggs, L. Vernon. Experiences of a Medical Student in Honolulu, and on the Island of Oahu. Boston: David D. Nickerson Co., 1926. p. 131.

Chun, Malcolm Naea. Hawaiian Medicine Book = He Buke La'au Lapaau. Honolulu: Bess Press, c1986.
Special Collections WZ 309 C559h 1986

Ellis, William. Journal of William Ellis: Narrative of a Tour of Hawaii, or Owhyhee: with Remarks on the History, Traditions, Manners, Customs and Language of the Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands. Honolulu, Hawaii: Advertiser Publishing Co., 1963.
Hawaii Collection DU 623 E475j 1963

Gutmanis, June. Kahuna La'au Lapa'au: the Practice of Hawaiian Herbal Medicine. 4th ed. Norfolk Island, Australia : Island Heritage, c1977.
Special Collections WB 925 AhH3 G984 1977, 1987

Handy, E.S. Craighill, M. K. Pukui, K. Livermore. Outline of Hawaiian Physical Therapeutics. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint, 1985.
Special Collections WB 50 AH3 H236o 1934a

Kaaiakamanu, D. M. Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value Found Among the Mountains and Elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands, and Known to the Hawaiians to Possess Curative and Palliative Properties Most Effective in Removing Physical Ailments.  Translated by Akaiko Akana, from the original compilations of D.M. Kaaiakamanu.  Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle Co. [1972].
Reference and Hawaii Collections QV 766 K11h 1972

Kamakau, Samuel M. Ka po'e kahiko: the People of Old. [Honolulu]: Bishop Museum Press, 1964.
Special Collections DU 624.5 K15p 1964

Malo, David. Hawaiian Antiquities = (Moolelo Hawaii). Honolulu, HI: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, c1951.
Hawaii Collection DU 625 M257m 1951

McBride, L.R. The Kahuna: Versatile Mystics of Old Hawaii. Hilo, HI: Petroglyph Press, [196?].
Reference WZ 309 M119k 196?

Rodman, Julius Scammon. The Kahuna Sorcerers of Hawaii, Past and Present: with a Glossary of Ancient Religious Terms, and the Books of the Hawaiian Royal Dead. Hicksville, N.Y.: Exposition Press, c1979.
Reference WZ 309 R693k 1979

Whistler, W. Arthur. Polynesian herbal medicine. Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii: National Tropical Botanical Garden, c1992.
Hawaii Collection QV 770 W576p 1992


Bibliography prepared: December 3, 2002
Judith Kearney
Mamiya Medical Heritage Center
Hawaii Medical Library
Bibliography updated: February 2003 and September 2003


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