History of the Health Sciences Links
Bibliographies/Chronologies/Histories
- The Adoption History Project
- Antiqua Medicina
- Antique Medical Collecting: An Educational Project
- Antique Spectacles and Other Vision Aids
- Army Nurse Corp Uniforms: A Retrospective Exhibit
- The Asclepion - Ancient Medicine
- The Assassination of President McKinley Bibliography on Medical Aspects
- The Beat Goes On: A History of Cardiology
- Bibliography of Canadian Health Sciences Periodicals
- Bibliography of Recent Secondary Works in the History of American Medicine & Related Health Fields
- Bloodletting
- The Boy in the Bubble- The American Experience (PBS)
- Bryce Hospital Historic Preservation Project
- Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine (Science Museum, London)
- Celebrating Nursing History: What to Keep - A Bibliography of Historically Important Books
- Civil War Medicine
- Classic Papers and Books in Neonatology
- Combined Medical Timeline (Wellcome Trust)
- Civil Practice to Civil War: The Medical College of the State of South Carolina, 1861-1865
- Digitalis Purpurea History
- DNA Interactive
- Eugenics: Three Generations, No Imbeciles, Virginia, Eugenics and Buck v. Bell
- Female Medical College & Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania
- Five Centuries of Veterinary Medicine: A Short-title Catalog of the Washington State University Veterinary History Collection
- From Birth to Death at the 1901 Pan American Exposition
- From One Moment to the Next: The Halifax Explosion
- From Quackery to Bacteriology: The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America
- Guide to the History of Medicine Artifacts Collection, 1550-1980s (Duke University)
- Herbal Medicine in Shakespeare's England from Dr. John Hall's Case Studies
- Historical Medical Sites in the Washington D.C. Area (National Library of Medicine)
- History of Dentistry Timeline
- The History of the Commissioned Corps
- History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women
- A History of the University of Massachusetts Medical School: Integrating Primary Care and Biomedical Research
- The History of Vaccines (College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
- Iron Lung
- Islamic Medical Manuscripts (National Library of Medicine)
- Martha Ballard's Diary Online (A Midwife's Tale)
- Medical and Related Artifacts - Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
- Medical Antiques Online
- Medical Artifacts Collection - Virginia Commonwealth University
- Medical History of British India: Disease Prevention and Pubilc Health (National Library of Scotland)
- Medical Services in the First World War (Imperial War Museums)
- Medieval Islamic Medicine
- A Midwife's Tale - The American Experience (PBS)
- National Health Service History
- New England Female Medical College & New England Hospital for Women and Children
- New Haven's Hospitals (Cushing/Whitney Medical Library)
- Nurse Practice Act: The Armstrong Act, 1903
- The NYAM Lectures
- The People's Medicine Comes to Massachusetts: Establishing a Family Medicine Residency at UMass Medical School
- Phisick Antique Medical Collection
- The Pill (PBS)
- Project Hope: Forty Years of American Medicine Abroad
- Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood (PBS)
- The Relief of Pain and Suffering
- The Road to the Sequence: An Interactive Timeline of Genomic History - Science Magazine
- A Short History of the Developments of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- A Short History of the National Institutes of Health
- "So Others May Live": DUSTOFF: Medical Evacuation in the Vietnam War (Vietnam Center and Archive)
- Sound and Fury: Deaf History (PBS)
- Spices: Exotic Flavors and Medicines
- Test Tube Babies- The American Experience (PBS)
- This is Public Health: A Canadian History
- Today in Health History
- Today's Seeds for Tomorrow's Harvest: The Impact of Women Nutritionists
- UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection
- U.S. Army Dental Corps
- WW2 US Medical Research Centre
Blogs (arranged alphabetically)
- Books, Health and History - The New York Academy of Medicine
- Centre for Medical Humanities Blog
- The Chirurgeon's Apprentice
- Circulating Now - History of Medicine Division of NLM
- Conecta
- Duke Medical Center Archives Blog
- De re medica: News from the Osler Library of the History of Medicine
- Dittrick Museum Blog
- The Fiction Reboot and the Daily Dose
- Historical Notes from OHSU
- Historical Reflections: The Medical Heritage Center Blog - Ohio State University
- History of Medicine in Ireland Blog - Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin and the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland Heritage Centre
- History of Vaccines Blog - College of Physicians in Philadelphia
- John Burns Library Blog - Boston College
- John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog - University of Manchester
- The Legacy Center - Drexel University College of Medicine, Archives & Special Collections Blog
- Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room - University of Iowa Libraries
- Remedia
- The Royal College of Physicians of London - Heritage Centre Blog
- Society for the History of Navy Medicine Blog
- The Special Collections Blog - Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- The UCL Centre for the History of Medicine: Official blog of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London
- Wellcome Trust Blog
For Children
- The Doctor Over Time (PBS)
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Educational Games
- Helen Keller Kids Museum Online
- History of Medicine: Learning from the Past
- Medicine Through Time
- A Science Odyssey (PBS)
Databases
- Ad* Access (Advertisement images from Duke University's collection)
- American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 (Use search terms such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy for relevant materials)
- American Social Hygiene Posters, ca. 1910-1970 - University of Minnesota
- Canadian Health Obituaries
- Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics (Wellcome Library)
- Proyecto Dioscórides - Digital Library at Complutense University of Madrid
- English Short Title Catalogue
- Galaxy of Images (from Smithsonian Institute)
- Germ Theory Calendar (Requires Internet Explorer®)
- Global Health Events (National Library of Medicine)
- HIMETOP: History of Medicine Topographical Database
- Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium (National Library of Medicine)
- History of Medicine Online Syllabus Archive (National Library of Medicine)
- Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
- Image Databases (Weill/Cornell Medical College Medical Center Archives)
- Images from the Clendening Library
- Images from the History of Medicine (National Library of Medicine)
- In the First Person: An Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories and Personal Narratives
- Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (National Library of Medicine)
- Library of Congress American Memory
- Making of America
- Marjorie Howard Futcher Digital Photo Collection (McGill University)
- Medical Archives and Manuscripts Survey (MAMS)
- Medical Heritage Library
- Medicine and Madison Avenue Project
- MIND: Modern Inventors Documentation Program
- National Archives and Records Administration Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
- NUCMC - National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
- New York City Department of Records - Photos of Public Charities & Hospitals
- New York University - Medical Humanities Database
- Medical Humanities Dissertations (University of Pittsburgh)
- Online Archive of American Folk Medicine
- The Osler Library Prints Collection
- Patron Saints
- PHDIL - Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library
- Prints & Photographs Collection Online Catalog - Library of Congress
- Public Health Image Library - CDC
- PubMed® (National Library of Medicine)
- Repositories of Primary Sources
- U.K. Higher Education Archives Hub
- Wellcome Images: 2000 Years of Human Culture
- Who Named It?: Dictionary of Medical Eponyms
Email Lists, Newsgroups
- CADUCEUS: Information | Subscribe to CADUCEUS | To subscribe via email, send the message "subscribe CADUCEUS-L Your Firstname Lastname" [without the quotes and with no subject]
- H-SCI-MED-TECH: Information | Subscribe to H-Sci-Med-Tech | H-SCI-MED-TECH Archives | To subscribe via email, send the message: "subscribe H-SCI-MED-TECH Your Firstname Lastname Institution" [without the quotes and with no subject]
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- HOPOS-g Google Group: Subscription Information | Archives
- ISHM: Subscribe to ISHM
- MUSHM-LINK Listserv: Subscribe | Archives
- NURHIS-L: Information | Subscribe to NURHIS-L via email (To subscribe via email, send the message: "subscribe NURHIS-L Your Firstname Lastname" [without the quotes and with no subject]
- Newsgroup: Soc.History.Science
Figures in Health Sciences - Lives and Works
- Foundations of AAMC History
- American Nurses' Association Hall of Fame
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- Sir Frederick Banting Digital Library
- Black Nurses in History: A Bibliography and Guide to Web Resources
- Bibliographies to Hippocrates and to Galen (Fichtner)
- Partners of the Heart: Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas (PBS)
- Books and Documents of the Office of Medical History, Office of the Surgeon General
- Mrs. Mary Breckinridge
- Letters to Doct. James Carmichael and Son at University of Virginia
- Nurse Edith Cavell (1865-1915): A Norfolk Heroine
- Margaret Ridley Charlton
- Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians (National Library of Medicine)
- Civil War Veterans List - College of Physicians & Surgeons
- Chemistry in History: People
- Classics in Family Medicine
- Collections de Medic@ Bibliothéque interuniversitaire de médecine et d'odontologie (BIUM)
- Anatomical Plates of Pietro da Cortona
- Nicholas Culpeper: The Complete Herbal
- Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Origin of the Species Voyage of the Beagle
- Darwin by Post (Lloyd Library and Museum
- Digital Collections from the Archives of the American College of Surgeons
- Paul Ehrlich (Paul Ehrlich Institut)
- The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
- Famous Geneticists
- Alexander Fleming (PBS)
- Fons històric de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu
- Founders of Neurology
- Rosalind Franklin (Rosalind Franklin Society)
- Sigmund Freud (PBS)
- Sigmund Freud Archives
- Galen - The Internet Classics Library
- First printed editions of Galen at the "Bibliothéque Interuniversitaire de Médecine" of Paris (BIUM)
- Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra
- John Graunt (The Galileo Project)
- Hearth: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History
- Heirs of Hippocrates
- Gray's Anatomy, 20th edition (Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray)
- First printed editions of Hippocrates at the "Bibliothéque Interuniversitaire de Médecine" of Paris (BIUM)
- Hippocrates - The Internet Classics Library
- Hooke's Books: Books that Influenced or were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia (National Library of Medicine)
- The Index of Medieval Medical Images (IMMI)
- James Lind Library
- Helen Keller
- Fighting Polio with 'Gentle Hands': Elizabeth Kenny
- Malaspina Great Books on the Web
- Images from Anatomia Universa by Mascagni
- The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations from the Wilson Library: Rare Book Collection
- The Medical Library Association Oral History Project: Voices of the Past
- Medicine in the Americas (National Library of Medicine)
- Florence Nightingale
- Florence Nightingale's Fever - BMJ
- The Florence Nightingale Digitization Project (Florence Nightingale Museum)
- Florence Nightingale Letters (University of British Columbia Library)
- Florence Nightingale Letters Collection(University of Illinois at Chicago University Library)
- A Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale (Clendening Library)
- The Nobel Prizes
- Ask Osleriana: A Searchable Database =
- Celebrating the Contributions of William Osler
- The William Osler Photo Collection (McGill University Library)
- Dr. Samuel Overton: Pioneer Doctor of Old Canton, Texas
- People and Discoveries: Medicine and Health (PBS)
- A Brief Biography of Jean Piaget
- Profiles in Science (National Library of Medicine)
- The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
- Seeing is Believing: Scientific and Medical Illustration
- John Snow: A Historical Giant in Epidemiology
- Dr. John Lancelot Todd: Guide to International Collections of Print, Manuscript, Photo-graphic and Material Resources Documenting the Professional and Personal Life of Dr. John Lancelot Todd (1876-1949)
- The Trotula Ensemble of Manuscripts
- Turning the Pages (National Library of Medicine)
- The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary (PBS)
- University of North Texas Health Science Center Scholarly Repository
- Images from Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 1543
- Rudolf Virchow Manuscripts: Translated
- Alfred Russel Wallace Page
- James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Rosalind Franklin
- Double Helix: 50 Years of DNA
- Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Health and Medicine
- 4000 Years of Women in Science
- Women's Life in Greece and Rome: Medicine & Anatomy
- Women Physicians, 1850s-1970s
- Working Women, 1800-1930 (Harvard University)
Journals
- E-journals in the History of the Health Sciences
- Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica
- Anthropology and Medicine
- Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
- British Journal for the History of Science
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine
- Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine
- Centaurus
- Chiropractic History
- Early Science and Medicine: A Journal of the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-Modern Period
- HealthPAC Digital Archive
- Historia Medicinae
- History of Psychology
- History of Psychiatry
- Hygiea Internationalis
- Isis
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
- Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
- Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine
- Literature and Medicine
- Medical History
- Nursing History Review
- Osiris
- Social History of Medicine
- Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Transactions of the Michigan Dental Society, 1882
- Vesalius: Acta Internationalia Historiae Medicinae
- Wellcome History
Links Pages
- BROWNson's Nursing Notes
- ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online
- The History of Nursing: 101 Informative Websites
- History of Psychology Resources
Oaths, Prayers and Symbols
- Caduceus vs. Aesculapius
- Straight Chiropractic Oath
- Codes of Ethics: Health Care and Medicine
- THE GOOD DOCTOR: Oaths, Quotes, and Prayers for Physicians
- Hippocratic Oath - Classical Version (Translated by Francis Adams)
- Hippocratic Oath - Modern Version
- Hippocratic Oath Today (PBS)
- Blood, Bandages and Barber Poles
- Oath and Prayer of Maimonides
- Nightingale Pledge
- Nuremburg Code
- Osteopathic Oath
- Prayer of an Army Nurse
- The Physician's Oath and the Aim of Medicine
- World Medical Association Declaration of Geneva
- World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki
Organizations
- American Academy for the History of Dentistry
- American Association for the History of Medicine
- American Association for the History of Nursing
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons: The Section on History
- American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
- Anesthesia History Association
- Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS)
- Association de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine de l'Art Dentaire: Association for Safeguarding Dental Art Heritage
- Association for the History of Chiropractic
- Australian Society for the History of Medicine
- Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
- British Columbia History of Nursing Group
- Canadian Association for the History of Nursing
- Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
- The Center for the History of Medicine - University of Michigan
- David H. Chestnut, M.D. History of Anesthesia Section, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
- European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences
- Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine
- History of Anaesthesia Society
- History of Dermatology Society
- The History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA
- The History of Science Society
- Hunterian Society
- Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités: Histoire de la médecine
- International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine (ISHIM)
- International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM)
- International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN)
- Johns Hopkins - Institute of the History of Medicine
- Margaret M. Allemang Society for the History of Nursing
- Medical Museums Association
- Museo Galileo (Institute and Museum of History of Science)
- Office of Medical History - Office of the Surgeon General
- Osler Club of London
- Physician Assistant History Society
- Society of American Archivists
- Society for the Social History of Medicine
- Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
- Società Italiana di Storia della Medicina
- United Kingdom Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery - University of Manchester School of Nursing
- Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
Organizations & Museums with History of the Health Sciences Interests
- Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences
- American Academy of the History of Dentistry - Dentistry Collections Database
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons - Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery
- American Red Cross - Museum
- Army Nurse Corps History
- Bakken Museum and Library
- Belgian Museum of Radiology
- Brian Welsh Memorial Museum of Anaesthesia
- Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Colonial Williamsburg: Public Hospital
- The Country Doctor Museum
- Dittrick Medical History Center
- Disability History Museum
- The Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry
- Epilepsy Museum in Kork, Germany
- The Florence Nightingale Museum
- The Folger Shakespeare Library
- The Freud Museum, London
- Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Collection - Oak Ridge Associated Universities
- History of Pharmacy Museum
- Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
- Indiana Medical History Museum
- International Institute of Islamic Medicine
- International Museum of Surgical Science
- Jane Addams' Hull House Museum
- The Jenner Museum
- Living History Museum, University of Maryland School of Nursing
- Marvin Samson Center for the History of Pharmacy (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science)
- Massachusetts General Hospital - History of Neurosurgery
- Mobile (Alabama) Medical Museum
- Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine
- Museum of Disability History
- Museum of Health Care at Kingston
- Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
- Museum of Vision (American Academy of Ophthalmology)
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- National Museum of Crime and Punishment
- National Museum of Health and Medicine
- National Women's History Museum
- Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
- Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Royal College of Surgeons of England Museums
- Royal Pump Rooms
- Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dental History
- Science Museum: Brought to Life - Exploring the History of Medicine
- Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry (University of Michigan)
- Smithsonian Institute: National Museum of American History
- Steno Museum - Danish Museum for the History of Science & Medicine
- Stetten Museum of Medical Research
- Still National Osteopathic Museum
- Thackray Museum
- University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medical Museum
- Vatican Exhibit - Medicine and Biology
- Wellcome Collection
- William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History of the American Urological Association
- Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology
Last updated: 14 August 2015
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