Research Catalog

Title

Anatomia, 1838 / Gerrit P. Judd ; Hawaiian text with English translation by Esther T. Mookini.

Author

Judd, Gerrit Parmele, 1803-1873

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

Mookini, Esther T.

Description

xvi, 191 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Anatomia is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. Gerrit P. Judd, for a time the only medical missionary in the Islands, wrote the text in 1838 to teach basic anatomy to Hawaiians enrolled at the Missionary Seminary (Lahainaluna School). Armed with the fundamentals of Western medicine, Judd's students were sent out to minister to a native population that had been at the mercy of lethal infectious diseases since James Cook's arrival in 1778." "Judd's use of Hawaiian terms and descriptions provides us with insights into native cultural and healing practices in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Anatomia is a valuable addition to the growing collection of translations on native health and will be greatly appreciated by linguists, historians, and students of Hawaiian language and culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Anatomia. English & Hawaiian

Alternative Title

Anatomia.

Subject

• Anatomy
• Human anatomy > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Animal Structures

Genre/Form

Handbooks and manuals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188) and index.

Language (note)

• English and Hawaiian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / O. A. Bushnell -- Preface / Benjamin B. C. Young -- Introduction / Esther T. Mookini -- Anatomia: A Translation -- App. A Catalog of Muscles -- Anatomia: Hawaiian Text -- Glossary 1: Hawaiian-English -- Glossary 2: Muscles: Hawaiian-Latin -- Glossary 3: English-Hawaiian -- Glossary 4: Muscles: Latin-Hawaiian.

ISBN

0824825853 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002032107

OCLC

• 50685288
• SCSB-12457732

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library