Daniel Moerman

Daniel Ellis Moerman
Born (1941-07-21)July 21, 1941
Paterson, New Jersey
Fields Medical anthropology
Institutions University of Michigan-Dearborn
Alma mater University of Michigan
Thesis Extended family and popular medicine on St. Helena Island, S.C. : adaptations to marginality (1974)
Known for Work in ethnobotany and the placebo effect
Notable awards University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Governance Award (1991)[1]

Daniel Ellis Moerman (born 1941) is an American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist, and an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.[2] He is known for his work relating to Native American ethnobotany and the placebo effect.

Education and career

Moerman was born in Paterson, New Jersey.[3] He received his AB, MA and PhD degrees in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1963, 1965, and 1974, respectively.[1] He became a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 1984, and was appointed the William E. Stirton Professor of Anthropology at the university in 1994.[1]

Research

Moerman has spent over 25 years developing a catalogue of over 4,000 plants used by Native Americans for medicinal purposes.[4] The database is available online at http://herb.umd.umich.edu . He has also published studies on the placebo effect, one of which found that more people with stomach ulcers were healed when taking four placebos per day than when taking two.[5]

Awards and honors

In 1991, Moerman became the first faculty member at the University of Michigan's Dearborn campus to receive the University's Distinguished Faculty Governance Award.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Daniel E. Moerman Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Daniel Moerman". University of Michigan Dearborn. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Moerman, Daniel E. 1941–". Contemporary Authors. 1 January 2007. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Sackman, Douglas (2010). A Companion to American Environmental History. John Wiley & Sons. p. 337.
  5. ↑ Evans, Dylan (2004). Placebo: Mind Over Matter in Modern Medicine. Oxford University Press. p. 35.
  6. ↑ Rosoff, Stephen (September–October 1989). "UM-Dearborn Professor Daniel Moerman wins University's Governance Award". Michigan Alumnus: 14.
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