Daniel Moerman
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| name = Daniel Ellis Moerman
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|07|21}}
| birth_place = Paterson, New Jersey
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| fields = Medical anthropology
| workplaces = University of Michigan-Dearborn
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| alma_mater = University of Michigan
| thesis_title = Extended family and popular medicine on St. Helena Island, S.C.: adaptations to marginality
| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2184273
| thesis_year = 1974
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| known_for = Work in ethnobotany and the placebo effect
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| awards = University of Michigan Distinguished Faculty Governance Award (1991){{cite web | url=http://www.fip.org/projects/ifom/cvs/Dan%20Moerman%20CV.pdf | title=Daniel E. Moerman Curriculum Vitae | accessdate=23 February 2015 | archive-date=15 August 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815170226/http://www.fip.org/projects/ifom/cvs/Dan%20Moerman%20CV.pdf | url-status=dead }}
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Daniel Ellis Moerman (born 1941) is an American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist, and an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.{{cite web|url=http://umdearborn.edu/casl/dmoerman/ |title=Daniel Moerman |work=University of Michigan Dearborn |accessdate=23 February 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223185154/http://umdearborn.edu/casl/dmoerman/ |archivedate=23 February 2015 }} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2699200099.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329183615/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2699200099.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=29 March 2015 | title=Moerman, Daniel E. 1941– | work=Contemporary Authors | date=1 January 2007 | accessdate=23 February 2015}} He received his AB, MA and PhD degrees in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1963, 1965, and 1974, respectively. 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.
Research
Moerman has spent over 25 years developing a catalogue of over 4,000 plants used by Native Americans for medicinal purposes.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RrHZfJSXjYC&pg=PA337 | title=A Companion to American Environmental History | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | author=Sackman, Douglas | year=2010 | pages=337| isbn=9781444323627 }}{{Cite web|url=http://naeb.brit.org|title=BRIT - Native American Ethnobotany Database|website=naeb.brit.org|access-date=2016-06-13}} 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.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GDUuMHQO6nMC&pg=PA35 | title=Placebo: Mind Over Matter in Modern Medicine | publisher=Oxford University Press | author=Evans, Dylan | year=2004 | pages=35| isbn=978-0-19-522054-4 }}
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.{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfY7AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA14 | title=UM-Dearborn Professor Daniel Moerman wins University's Governance Award | author=Rosoff, Stephen | journal=Michigan Alumnus |date=September–October 1989 | pages=14}}
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Category:Medical anthropologists
Category:American anthropologists
Category:Scientists from Paterson, New Jersey
Category:University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni