K. Codell Carter

extremely repetitive, frequent misspellings, and a small field of highly selective sources... plus questionable behavior like referring to traditional medicine throughout the book as "chimbuki medicine", apparently some african word for a medicine man, based on some strange anecdote about pooping in trees that was supposed to exemplify how humans impose social norms. but this is the only scholarship i could find on "the decline of bloodletting", which i still think is an under-explored subject.