History of Medicine
This resource guide is a selection of Web sites on the Internet specializing in the history of health sciences. Most of these resources were developed at medical institutions, however, this list aims to add more resources from the field of the humanities in the future. If you have questions, please contact the guide editor.
Guide Editor: Lilla Vekerdy
Resources:
Archival and Book Collections |
| Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia |
| Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library |
| Institute of the History of Medicine Johns Hopkins University |
| Lehigh University Special Collections |
| Medical Historical Library Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University |
| Osler Library of the History of Medicine McGill University |
| Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto |
| UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham Reynolds Historical Library |
| University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives |
| Wellcome Library |
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Databases |
| Britannica Online Access through the Washington University Libraries (Olin Library) Databases |
| CINAHL Entitled a nursing and allied health database, CINAHL still searches several resources that cover medical history. It is especially rich in early modern history of medicine. |
| Health & Wellness Though it mainly concentrates on contemporary medicine, this database is still a valuable resource to find full text articles, reviews, and digital books in the field of medical history. |
| History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Access restricted to WU. |
| ISI Web of Knowledge Searches numerous mainstream databases, books, and journals covering many resources on the history of medicine. Use the "CrossSearch" function in the box at the very top of the home page. |
| Journals@Ovid Login and password required. Call the Reference Desk at 314-362-7085 for information about an Ovid Online account. Access restricted to WU. |
| MDConsult A very rich, well-layed-out and multi-faceted database for both contemporay and historical literature. Especially useful part of it is the database called "Images (from books)." |
| Scopus Access restricted to WU Medical School. |
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Indexes (Journal Articles) |
| IndexCat |
| PubMed Access to full-text articles restricted to WU. It is important to limit the search to the subset "History of Medicine"! |
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Internet Resources |
| Ad*Access Duke University John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History project presenting images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. |
| BUBL LINK: History of Medicine BUBL Information Service |
| Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine University of Manchester |
| ECHO Research Center ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) is a project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. |
| Health Heritage Research Services |
| History of Health Sciences Links - University of Manitoba |
| History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive National Library of Medicine |
| History of Science / Science Studies Reference Sources |
| History of the Health Sciences Web Resources Maintained by the History of the Health Sciences Section of the Medical Library Association |
| Images from the History of Medicine National Library of Medicine |
| In the First Person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives |
| Index of Medieval Medical Images (IMMI) UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library |
| INTUTE: Arts and Humanities Intute is a free online service providing access to Web resources for education and research. The service is created and maintained by a network of UK universities and partners. |
| Intute: MedHist MedHist is a free catalogue of evaluated, high quality Internet resources and websites relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge. |
| Karolinska Institutet: History of Medicine |
| National Library of Medicine: History of Medicine |
| New York University Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database The database is an annotated multimedia listing of prose, poetry, film, video and art that was developed as a comprehensive resource for teaching and research in Medical Humanities, and for use in health/pre-health, graduate and undergraduate liberal arts and social science settings. |
| North American Women's Letters and Diaries |
| Primary Care Internet Guide: Medical History University of Bergen |
| Repositories of Primary Sources |
| Selected Special Collections and Archives in the History of Medicine Compiled by the Medical Historical Library, Yale University |
| University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System: History of Medicine |
| Useful Reference Sources in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Johns Hopkins University |
| Websters' Instrument Makers Database Adler Planetarium |
| Whonamedit.com Biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. |
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Journals |
| British Journal for the History of Science |
| Bulletin of the History of Medicine |
| Canadian Bulletin of Medical History |
| Early Science and Medicine |
| ISIS - Guide to the History of Science |
| Journal of Medical Humanities Access restricted to WU faculty, staff, and students. |
| Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Access restricted to WU faculty, staff, and students. |
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