Society, History, By Topic, Science, Medicine
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 - Searchable catalog of resources related to the history of medicine and allied sciences, developed and managed by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
- A place to share stories and resources about the history of polio; from the epidemics, to the vaccines, to post polio syndrome, to eradication.
- Naval Medicine in the 18th and 19th century. Links to re-enactment sources and medical information for the period.
- Excerpts from comments made by white doctors on the nature of medical practice among Native Americans.
- Numerous links to web pages on the contributions of indigenous cultures to the practice of medicine, from pre-history to present.
- Transcripts of a two-part radio program from 1996 that placed the responses to AIDS, from both socio-cultural and medical standpoints, in historical perspective. Includes various links.
- How London's hospitals were formed and came to provide services to London. eBook of Geoffrey Rivett's history published by Kings Fund in 1986
- Course notes and presentations from University of Stanford course which explores the historical development of cultural beliefs and institutions in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which led to the e
- Bibliography compiled by Robert Arnott of University of Birmingham. Useful, but few links to full text. Last updated February 2002
- UK based discussion list for science, technology and medicine studies
- This site contains an edition of dietetic fragments of Rufus of Ephesos in Syriac language, together with German translation and commentary. PDF (1,3 MB)
- A non-critical electronic bibliography from the Ruth Lilly Medical Library of monographs and classic works in the field of American history of medicine and related topics.
- Medical education resource with facts and trivia about the history of medicine in a question and answer format.
- An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.
- BBC Radio 4 discussion of 2,000 years of the study of human anatomy.
- Index to history of anaestheia resources on the Web
- Indiainfoline presents med milestones giving the major breakthroughs in medical science that took place during the 20th Century.
- Provides access to the thousands of prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and grap
- From prehistoric shamanism to the 20th Century specialist.
- Useful links from the University of California, Riverside.
- Tells the story of the 19th Century man who survived severe damage to the brain, and how the accident led to significant changes in his personality and mood.
- Index website maintained by the Karolinska Institute.
- The story how dentistry developed through the ages to become the sophisticated medical science of today.
- A platform where historians publish and discuss their research on experimentation in the life sciences, art, and technology. Managed by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about reflex hammers, and then some.
- A repository for institutional administrative and clinical records, private papers, photographs and objects relating to the past and present of Lothian health.
- Chronicles the dangers that women and their newborns have faced during labor and delivery.
- Historic collection of inhaler and asthma therapy. Inhaler devices and adverts, articles and patents for athma therapy. Includes Maxim inhaler, Dr Worst's inhaler, many others. Academic resource.
- Portal for history of medical science archive resources. Sorted by state.
- Comprehensive study of the life and work of a rural East Texas physician in the last half of the nineteenth century. Based on over 12,500 entries transcribed from his journals.
- Health and public health issues in the 19th century, with sections on "Health of the Body Politic", "Fever", "War's Cruel Scythe", "Quacks and Quackery", and "Populate or Perish".
- "We Have Conquered Pain: A Celebration of Ether," presented by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University.
- Website of the Scottish Society of the HIstory of Medicine
- Organization of medical historians, focusing on issues of class, race, and gender.
- Features a historical perspective of the medical and biomedical fields, including useful research links. From the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
- The International Leprosy Association is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world.
- University of Iowa online exhibition from 1990. Traces the interwoven history of medical knowledge and technological advance from Galen's early description of the circulatory system to modern breakthroughs in prevention, diagnosis and treatment
- A short account of the origins of Chinese medical texts. Written by Imre Galambos (1996)
- This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of hospitals in the UK.
- GASMAN - A Personal History of Anaesthesia; A memoir and commentary by English anaesthetist John Powell. It also includes other articles on the History of Anaesthesia.
- A history of medical treatments for mental illness, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders, and why those treatments led to the antipsychiatry movement.
- List of links maintained by Patricia Gallagher and Stephen Greenburg for the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA
- Title pages, contents pages, indexes, illustrations, and extracts from the text of many books availabale online.
- Database of libraries, archives, research, and museums that could be of interest to scholars interested in the history of the health sciences.
- Devoted to the study of ancient medicine. Contains texts and illustrations. Designed to be an internet source that presents the study of ancient medicine in a manner that is both accessible and useful to the general public and to students enrolled in the
- Current developments in the British NHS, follow up to Geoffrey Rivett's Book, From Cradle to Grave
- Dr. Grove is the author of "A Human History of Helminthology", "Strongyloidiasis: a major roundworm infection of man" and "Alternative Medicine: fact or fiction?".
- Shows establishment of general practice (family medicine) as a speciality and academic discipline in Great Britain. Includes background history of general practice, foundation of the College, history of the College and its building and detailed chronology
- Lois Shawver's notes on Foucault's Birth of the Clinic
- A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, i.e. medical conditions and techniques and the people for whom they are named.
- Chronicles the practice of Medicine in the Greek and Roman eras, with translations of works by Hippocrates and Galen as well as essays, bibliographies, mailing lists, and othe resources.
- Online journal for the history of Chinese medicine.
- An illustrated timeline from 1600 onwards, including electrocuting chickens (1775) and hypothermic dogs (1953).
- Medical practice in the Spanish American War, primarily by US Army medical staff and DAR Volunteer nurses upon US soldiers.
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