Herbal marketeer, Nairobi, Kenya (left), Rural district hospital, Marsabit, Kenya, (left and center), 1972.
Beginning with his fieldwork in Tanzania in 1964-1965, Miller had a lifelong interest in global health, particularly in Africa. He worked with the World Health Organization, and served from 1985-1995 as director and editor for several major HIV/AIDS prevention and education projects. In addition, Miller was centrally concerned with the connection between witchcraft and traditional healing, as well as other matters of rural health in China and East Africa.
Much of Miller’s work on global health is distributed through other pages of the site. Below are links to those pages, organized by topic and media type. The exceptions are the global health photo gallery, and the page on Miller’s work on HIV/AIDS.
Traditional Healing
Encounters with Witchcraft
Miller’s textbook on witchcraft which carries two chapters on traditional medicine (Chapters 4 and 7).
Fieldstaff Reports
Field reports from 1969-1985, of which four focus on health issues in rural Africa and China, including traditional healing.
Traditional Healing Photo Gallery
In Norman Miller’s African field work, he produced photos for use in research and teaching. A selection of these photographs, taken from 1960-1972, illustrate traditional healing practices in East Africa. Witchcraft as a Public Health Issue: Miller’s argument that witchcraft violence was directly related to public health and should be treated as a human rights issue, including a global map of the worldwide scope of witchcraft (1950-2005).
Rural Medicine
Fieldstaff Reports
Field reports from 1969-1985, of which four focus on health issues in rural Africa and China.
Rural Medicine Photo Gallery
In Norman Miller’s African field work, he produced photos for use in research and teaching. A selection of these photographs, taken from 1960-1972, illustrate historic medical practices in East Africa.
HIV/AIDS Research
Miller’s work on HIV/AIDS policy and prevention encompasses over a decade of writing, including a book, several published articles, and over 40 journals that detail early HIV/Policy in Africa.
AIDS In Africa
Miller and Rockwell’s 1998 book collected 34 contributor’s writings on early policy and research on the outbreak.
HIV/AIDS Civil-Military Bulletins
In the 1990s, Miller co-directed with Dr. Stuart Kingman and Dr. Rodger Yeager, an international HIV/AIDS prevention and education project funded by WHO, UNAIDS, the Ford Foundation and other donors, which produced the newsletter AIDS and Society International Research and Policy Bulletin. Those writings have been preserved below.
Related Topics
- Miller’s Field Note Database (1964-1966), which has traditional healing and rural health data.
- Witchcraft in the Press, which contains many press summaries relating to traditional healing’s intersection with witchcraft.
- The Tanzania Rural Leadership Survey, which holds primary data from 1965 on the health and of village leaders and government officials across three districts.
- The MacDonald-Miller Correspondence, which summarizes 30 years of correspondence between Miller and Duncan MacDonald, MD on many topics including rural health and traditional healing.
- Witchcraft as a Public Health Issue: Miller’s argument that witchcraft violence was directly related to public health and should be treated as a human rights issue, including a global map of the worldwide scope of witchcraft (1950-2005).