33 Publishing

Where ancient healing traditions
meet the evidence of the sky.

An independent scholarly press publishing works of history, philosophy, medicine, and professional education.

About 33 Publishing

33 Publishing is an independent scholarly press. We publish books that take historical traditions seriously as sources of knowledge and examine them with the tools of contemporary scholarship. Our list covers the history of healing and the history of science, philosophy and epistemology, celestial medicine, and the teaching of these subjects at a professional level. Some titles belong to long-form research series. Others stand alone. All of them are written for readers who want the evidence behind the tradition: sources named, arguments tested, and specialist terms explained in plain words on first use.

The press works from the East Shore of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia.

From the Catalog

Research Programs

Sky Medicine

Sky Medicine is the principal research program of the press, published across many volumes. It begins with something the historical record makes plain: cultures separated by oceans and centuries built strikingly similar medicine around the same sky. The series follows that convergence into anatomy and physiology, herbs and formulas, sound and rhythm, dreams, prognosis, and the management of cases, testing in each domain what the sky can be shown to contribute. The series also takes up the teaching of the subject, on the understanding that a tradition survives by being transmitted. Volume numbers describe the architecture of the inquiry rather than the order of publication, so readers can enter the series wherever their work begins.