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History of Medicine
General
- Cultures
of Health: A new on-line research magazine in history of
medicine is a website dedicated to making available
to students and researchers an eclectic mix of sources to
stimulate historical conversations about the cultural dimensions
of disease, health and medicine. The site is designed to
be especially suited for the presentation and discussion
of research “fragments” — a venue for graduate students and
senior undergraduates, as well as more established researchers,
to present and discuss ideas and sources that are not yet
worked into the complex, finished “whole” of paper, article,
thesis, or book.
- History
of Science, Technology, and Medicine database journal articles,
conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations
in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied
historical fields. It integrates four bibliographies: the Isis
Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current
Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture),
the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome
Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Covers
1975 to the present.
NOTE: restricted to institutions with subsciptions
- available at Stanford
- Medical
History on the Internet lists hundreds of net-based resources
by topic.
- History of
the Health Sciences WWW Links from Duke University organized
by source type (organizations, collections, etc...)
- History of
the Health Sciences Resources on the Internet- from Viginia
Commonwealth Universtiy
- MedWeb
- History of Medicine at Emory Univesity, organized by
resource type and subject
- History
of Medicine Pathfinder Resources include reference materials
(bibliographies, biographical sources, dictionaries, encyclopedias,
guides, etc.), indexes and abstracts, journals, textbooks,
guides to archives and primary sources, image and pictorial
resources, information on professional
associations, and electronic resources.
- Lineamenti
di Storia della Medicina including a large collection
of brief biographies (in
Italian) from MEDI-THEMA
- Nobel
Prize in Physiology and Medicine from the Official Web
Site of The Nobel Foundation
- Biographical
Memoirs The National Academy Press (NAP), publisher for
the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), has mounted HTML
and PDF editions of 264 of its Biographical Memoirs.
- Current
Work in the History of Medicine the international bibliography
of the history of medicine produced by the Wellcome Library
since 1954, is now freely available via the Wellcome Library
catalogue's web-site
Libraries & Collections
- medica@ This
site contains several hundred digitalized medical works, including
several editions of the Hippocratic corpus, early editions
of Galen, 19th-century medical theses by famous doctors, and
a smaller number of classic monographs and treatises, mostly
dating from the 19th century (in french).
- Medical
Archives and Manuscripts Survey (MAMS) from The Wellcome
Library (U.K.), MAMS provides a comprehensive and detailed
guide to primary records for the history of medicine and
health-care held in archives and libraries in greater London.
- The
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource developed
by the Royal Society Library and funded by the Raymond and
Beverly Sackler Trust. The Resource is a biographical database
of Fellows of the Royal Society from its inception in 1660
to the present day (excluding the current Fellowship) and
includes some 8,000 figures from the history of science.
- Online
finding aids: National Library of Medicine- Note that
the National Library of Medicine (NLM) does not have very
many finding aids online, but the ones it has mounted are
fully searchable because they have been prepared/encoded
with EAD (Encoded Archival Description), a powerful, standardized
markup language. Be sure to browse through the "Manuscript
Collections By Call Number", to see the hundreds of collections
for which finding aids may one day be available online. See
also NLM's "New
Accessions" list of hundreds more collections which are
still unprocessed, but about which you can make inquiries
to the NLM's History of Medicine Division.
- History
of Biomedicine from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
- Images
from the History of Medicine from the National
Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health
- Historical
Images in Medicine History of Medicine Collections at
Duke University encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations,
engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health
and life sciences.
- The Mayo History
of Medicine Library -several thousand volumes of rare
medical classics (from 1479) and early journal literature
(from 1665) comprise the core collection of primary literature
on all aspects of medicine and allied fields. Early medical
imprints (pre-1875) and more recently published histories,
biographies, facsimilies, and other support material comprise
the remainder of the collection of some 23,000 total volumes.
- Alan M. Chesney Medical Archives of
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Holdings include
materials from The Johns Hopkins Hospital and from the health
divisions of The Johns Hopkins University (School of Hygiene
and Public Health, School of Medicine, and School of Nursing).
Dates of documentation in the holdings range from the middle
of the nineteenth century to the present.
- Wellcome
Trust History of Medicine Library One
of the largest libraries of its kind in the world, medical
history is interpreted broadly including, botany, sexuality,
anthropology, eugenics, cookery and much more. Free and open
to the public. Limited online access to collections
- Philadelphia
Historical Digital Image Library (PHDIL) at Thomas Jefferson
University contains over 3,000 images,with searchable catalog.
Documents the development of Jefferson and the history of
medicine. Jefferson photographs within PHDIL include approximately
750 pre-1945 portraits of alumni, faculty, and trustees;
scenes from Blockley and Children's Rehabilitation Hospitals
and military hospitals; views of 19th and early 20th century
anatomy/dissection labs; nurses in practice; as well as medical
society and class portraits
- Louise
M. Darling Biomedical Library History & Special Collections
Division - contains close to 28,000 rare books. A 23,000
volume secondary support collection provides in-depth interpretation
for the primary materials as does the extensive history of
the health science/history of biology journal collection.
Also collects and curates manuscripts, prints and portraits,
and museum objects. This site also houses the John
C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection, designed to
document the history of pain studies from the earliest times
to the present. It consists of oral histories, books, papers,
and records, and ephemera.
- The Historical
Library at Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale- contains
a large and unique collection of rare medical books, medical
journals to 1920, pamphlets, prints, and photographs, as
well as current works on the history of medicine. Special
strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius,
Boyle, Harvey, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia,
and smallpox inoculation and vaccination. The Library owns
over 300 medical incunabula.
- The Dittrick Medical History Center Distinguished collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images.
- Waring
Historical Library at theUniversity of South Carolina,
houses books, journals, manuscript items, and museum artifacts
dealing with the history of the health sciences, with particular
emphasis upon South Carolina and the South, generally. The
Macaulay Museum of Dental History, located behind the Waring
Library, houses a large collection of dental artifacts and
books.
Institutes & Universities
- History
of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine
at the National Institutes of Health
- Historical
Center for the Health Sciences (HCHS) at
the University of Michigan seeks to document the
history of medicine in Michigan and serve as a resource
for scholars of American medical history
- Department
of the History of Science, Medicine and Technology at
Jonhs Hopkins University includes the Institute of the
History of Medicine as a division. The Historical Collection contains
about forty thousand volumes, including runs of more than
300 journals. It has one of the most comprehensive collections
of secondary literature in the history of medicine; and the
108 periodicalinclude almost all currently published titles
in history of medicine, history of science and social studies
of medicine The rare book collection of some ten thousand
volumes has scattered strengths, largely concentrated in
the seventeenth and eighteenth century, and primarily in
western medicine
Museums & Exhibits
- "Theatre
of Nature and Art - Treasure-trove of Knowledge" An exhibition
organised by Humboldt-Universität Berlin in cooperation
with the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Freie Universität Berlin, Berliner Festspiele GmbH and
Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren.
The diverse objects from a multitude of different areas reveal
anew the connections linking various disciplines and research
projects.
- National
Museum of Health and Medicine Began life as the Museum
and Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Army, and was until a few years ago known as the Armed Forces
Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
It is home to the Billings Microscope Collection.
- National
Museum of Civil War Medicine Center for the study and
interpretation of the medical history of the War Between
the States. The Museum collects, exhibits and preserves medical
artifacts, manuscripts, books, documents and other materials
related to the period from 1861-1865. It also sponsors an
annual conference on Civil War medicine.
- DeWitt
Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research at the NIH collects
and exhibits biomedical research instruments and NIH memorabilia
"Converging
Pathways of Pain Research at NIDCR" Describes how the most versatile
and productive pain research unit at NIH established itself in the National
Institute of Dental Research and details the history of pain research
from the late 1950's to today
- Virtual
Museum of Anesthesiology Electronic repository of historical
images, written works, information, and resources for further
discovery.
- History
of Pharmacy Museum Photos, links
and an online tour of the museum, located at the University
of Arizona.
- Here
Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera -An
online exhibit of medical advertising, labels and other printed
material from the National Library of Medicine
- Every Man His
Own Doctor An
online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from
Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.
- You
won’t feel a thing: Needles in medical history Exhibit from the Wellcome Trust takes its core theme
from Edward Jenner’s first vaccination for smallpox
in 1796, but expands to the wider motif of the symbolism
of the medical needle as seen through acupuncture, anaesthetics,
blood transfusion, lethal injections, suturing, recreational
drugs and the popular culture of the needle
Periods & Medical
Specialties
- Pharmacy & Apothecary Information & Resources - Produced by PharmacyTechnician.net, this site contains information about the history and development of the pharmacueutical practice. It also includes training and pharmacological resources.
- History
of Microbiology: Archival Project from Yale - This site
includes three projects devoted to topics in microbiology
being developed and maintained through a grant to the American
Society for Microbiology. Parallel projects are being developed
by the Society for Neuroscience and the American Society
for Virology
- Milestones in
Neuroscience Research - important historical discoveries,
people and events in the field of neuroscience.
- RETICULUM , a gateway to Internet
resources for history and historians of basic, clinical,
and behavioral neuroscience.
- Early Neurophysiology from
the Greeks through Descartes to the late 19th Century
- Anesthesiology: "We Have Conquered Pain: A Celebration of Ether, 1846-1996 " Presented
by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University.
- Founders of
Neurology from the Louis
D. Boshes, M.D. Archives at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Neurology.
- History
of Phrenology guide to resources on the internet, links to detailed information, the largest collection
of phrenological images in any one place, and complete digitized
sources relevant not only to the history of phrenology, but
also to the history of popular naturalism, evolutionary thought
and modern cultural history
- Ancient
Medicine/Medicina Antiqua - resource for the study of
Greco-Roman medicine and medical thought from Mycenaean times
until the fall of the Roman Empire.
- Asclepion from
the University of Indiana - devoted to the study of ancient
medicine
- Brief
History of Computational Neuroscience Simulations
with NEURON
- MendelWeb Resource
for the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis,
elementary plant science, and the history and literature of
science. Constructed around Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper "Versuche über
Pflanzen-Hybriden" and a revised version of the English
translation by C.T. Druery and William Bateson, "Experiments
in Plant Hybridization", MendelWeb is offered as a
public sourcebook and collaborative environment compatible
with a variety of guided and independent studies.
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The
Phineas Gage Information Page Describes probably
the most famous patient to have survived severe damage
to the brain. He is also the first patient from whom
we learned something about the relation between personality
and the function of the front parts of the brain. Site
maintained by Malcolm Macmillan School of Psychology,
Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
Databases
- History
of Science, Technology, and Medicine database journal
articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and
dissertations in the history of science, technology, and
medicine and allied historical fields. It integrates four
bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History
of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology
(Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia
della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and
Understanding of Medicine. Covers 1975 to the present.
NOTE: restricted to institutions with subsciptions
- available at Stanford
- Clio
Medica/The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine -
10 Issues available online, from November 1998 to August
2000
NOTE: requires institutional subsciption - available at Stanford
- HISTLINE History
of Medicine database from the National Library of Medicine. Select
HISTLINE from the menu in the left frame.
- Finding
Aids to Archival Collections from the California Digital
Library - inventories, registers, indexes or guides to collections
held by archives and manuscript repositories, libraries,
and museums.
- Historical
Medical Digital Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (HDML) allows patrons
to browse electronically selected books significant in the
history of medicine. You browse electronically, but
also in the traditional sense: a virtual pulling the
book off the shelf.
- Online Books Medicine
Page - Lists 221 titles from Hippocrates to the present.
Journals
Organizations & Societies
- American
Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM)North America's
oldest continuously functioning scholarly organization devoted
to the study of all aspects of the history of the health
professions, disease, public health, and related subjects.Comprised
of professional historians, practicing health professionals,
librarians and archivists in the history of the health sciences,
graduate students and students actively seeking professional
degrees.
- International
Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM)
- Society
for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) - inter-disciplinary
approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science
and practice. Membership consists of those interested in
a variety of disciplines, including history, public health,
demography, anthropology, sociology, social administration
and health economics.
- The
International Society for the History of the Neurosciences
(ISHN) includes links to its offocial journal, the Journal of the History
of the Neurosciences, and RETICULUM , a gateway to Internet
resources for history and historians of basic, clinical,
and behavioral neuroscience.
- CHEIRON:
The International Society for the History of Behavioral and
Social Sciences was formed in 1968 to promote international
cooperation and multidisciplinary studies in the history
of the social and behavioral sciences. Cheiron welcomes members
for whom history is a side-interest, as well as scholars
with a primary commitment to historical study
- German
Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft
und Technik - DGGMNT)- in German
Last modified:
August 13, 2010
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