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Eucharius Roeslin "Two midwives assist a delivery", 1513

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Organizations in the History of the Health Sciences

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

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

Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine

History of Anaesthesia Society

History of Dermatology Society

HOPOS - The History of Philosophy of Science Working Group

The History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA

The History of Science Society

Hunterian Society

Institut d'Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé

Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence Italy

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 Centre for the History of Nursing

Medical Museums Association

Office of Medical History - Office of the Surgeon General

Office of the Public Health Historian

Osler Club of London

Society of American Archivists

Society for the Preservation of Physician Assistant History

Society for the Social History of Medicine

Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
- Department of Medical History


United Kingdom Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine


History of the Health Sciences Libraries and Archives

History of the Health Sciences Libraries and Archives - arranged alphabetically

History of the Health Sciences Libraries and Archives - arranged by state/country


History of the Health Sciences Educational Programs



Organizations and Museums with History of the Health Sciences Interests

Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences

American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery - John Q. Adams Center for the History of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

American Academy of the History of Dentistry Dentistry Collections Database

American Association of Neurological Surgeons - Cyber Museum of Neurosurgery

American Red Cross - Virtual Museum

Army Nurse Corps History

Bakken Museum and Library

Belgian Museum of Radiology

Brian Welsh Memorial Museum of Anaesthesia

Clement Susini's Wax Anatomical Models at the University of Cagliari

Dittrick Medical History Center

Disability History Museum

Museum of Disability History

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 the Health Sciences Museums: Alphabetical List - Virginia Commonwealth University
Subject List   Geographical List

History of Osteopathic Medicine Virtual Museum

History of Pharmacy Museum

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

Indiana Medical History Museum

International Museum of Surgical Science

Jane Addams' Hull House Museum

The Jenner Museum

Marvin Samson Center for the History of Pharmacy (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science)

Massachusetts General Hospital - History of Neurosurgery

Mobile (Alabama) Medical Museum

Museum of Health Care at Kingston

Museum of Questionable Medical Devices

Museums of Paris - Medicine

National Archives and Records Administration

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

National Museum of Crime and Punishment

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret

Physician Assistants History Center

Royal College of Surgeons of England Museums

Royal Pump Rooms Medicate Programme

Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dental History

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

Virtual Nursing Museum, UW-Madison School of Nursing

Wellcome Collection

William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History of the American Urological Association

Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology


Important Figures in Health Sciences - Their Lives and Works

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum

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

Elizabeth Blackwell, MD

Partners of the Heart: Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas (PBS)

Books and Documents of the Office of Medical History, Office of the Surgeon General

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

Chemical Achievers: The Human Face of the Chemical Sciences

Classics in Family Medicine

Collections de Medic@ Bibliothèque 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

Digital Collections from the Archives of the American College of Surgeons

Paul Ehrlich: Some Important Dates (Paul Ehrlich Institut)

The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences

Famous Geneticists

Who Was Dr. Carlos J. Finlay?

Alexander Fleming

Founders of Neurology

Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archive

Galen - The Internet Classics Library

First printed editions of Galen at the "Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine" of Paris (BIUM)

Joseph Goldberger and the War on Pellagra

John Graunt (1620-1674)

Heirs of Hippocrates

Gray's Anatomy, 20th edition (Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray)

First printed editions of Hippocrates at the "Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine" of Paris (BIUM)

Hippocrates - The Internet Classics Library

Historical Documents (Health documents from New Haven, Connecticut)

Hooke's Books: Books that Influenced or were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia

The Index of Medieval Medical Images (IMMI)

James Lind Library

Helen Keller

Fighting Polio with 'Gentle Hands': Elizabeth Kenny

Hearth: Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History

Sister Kenny: Polio Pioneer

Landmarks in Afro-American Dentistry

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

Moody Medical Library - Online Portraits

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale's Fever - BMJ

A Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale

The Nobel Prizes

Obstetric Literature and the Changing Character of Childbirth

Celebrating the Contributions of William Osler

Sir William Osler

The William Osler Photo Collection (McGill University Library)

Dr. Samuel Overton: Pioneer Doctor of Old Canton, Texas

Louis Pasteur

People and Discoveries: Medicine and Health (PBS)

Jean Piaget

Profiles in Science

Major Walter Reed, Medical Corps, U.S. Army

Wilhelm Röntgen

The Legacy of Albert B. Sabin

Jonas Salk (Time Magazine 100)

The Margaret Sanger Papers Project

Seeing is Believing: Scientific and Medical Illustration

John Snow: A Historical Giant in Epidemiology

Transactions of the Michigan Dental Society, 1882

Turning the Pages

The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Typhoid Mary (PBS)

Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Images from Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica, 1543

Rudolf Virchow Manuscripts: Translated

Alfred Russel Wallace Page

James Watson and Francis Crick
Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids, Nature 171, 737-738 (1953)

Washington University School of Medicine, Becker Library - The Portrait Gallery

Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Health and Medicine

4000 Years of Women in Science

Focus on Women in Uniform

Women's Life in Greece and Rome: Medicine & Anatomy

Women in Health History

Women Physicians, 1850s-1970s

Working Women, 1800-1930 (Harvard University)


Databases

Ad* Access
(Advertisement images from Duke University's collection; items on Beauty and Hygiene are included)

(Use search terms such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy for relevant materials)

American Social Hygiene Posters, ca. 1910-1970 - University of Minnesota

Artifacts Database from The Bakken Library

Canadian Health Obituaries

College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University) Obituary Database

Proyecto Dioscórides - Digital Library at Complutense University of Madrid

English Short Title Catalogue

Finding Aids for Archival Collections

Galaxy of Images (from Smithsonian Institute)

Germ Theory Calendar (Requires Internet Explorer®)

HIMETOP: History of Medicine Topographical Database

Historical Health Information Locator Service-Canada

Historical Medical Digital Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

History of Medicine Online Syllabus Archive

History of Microbiology: Archival Project

Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement

Images from the Clendening Library

Images from the History 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

Library of Congress American Memory

The Making of America (A digital library of primary sources in American social history)

Medical Archives and Manuscripts Survey (MAMS)

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 University - Medical Humanities Database

Online Archive of American Folk Medicine

Patron Saints

PHDIL - Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library

Prints & Photographs Collection Online Catalog - Library of Congress

Public Health Image Library - CDC

PubMed®

Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine - University of Pittsburgh

Repositories of Primary Sources

Scientific American - 19th Century Index

Sturgis Collection of Medical Images

U.K. Higher Education Archives Hub

Wellcome Bibliography for the History of Medicine
(Individual titles are searchable through the Wellcome Library's Online Catalog)

Wellcome Images: 2000 Years of Human Culture

Who Named It?: Dictionary of Medical Eponyms


Links Pages

BROWNson's Nursing Notes

Chi Med: History of Chinese Medicine Webpage

ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online

EINet - History of Medicine

History of Psychology Resources

MedHist: The History of Medicine Gateway

MIC-KIBIC at the Karolinska Institute History of Biomedicine



Oaths, Prayers and Symbols

Caduceus vs. Aesculapius

Straight Chiropractic Oath

Codes of Ethics: Health Care

"First Do No Harm:" is Not in the Hippocratic Oath

THE GOOD DOCTOR: Oaths, Quotes, and Prayers for Physicians

Hippocratic Oath - Classical Version (Translated by Ludwig Edelstein) (PBS)

Hippocratic Oath - Classical Version (Translated by Francis Adams)

Hippocratic Oath - Modern Version (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


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)


The History of Diseases



Bibliographies/Chronologies/Histories

The Adoption History Project

Antiqua Medicina: From Homer to Vesalius

Antique Medical Collecting: An Educational Project

Antique Spectacles and Other Vision Aids

Army Nurse Corp Uniforms: A Retrospective Exhibit

The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt

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)

Celebrating Nursing History: What to Keep - A Bibliography of Historically Important Books

Chronology of Psychoactive Substance Use

Civil War Medicine

Civil War Medicine Resource Guide (Tompkins-McCaw Library & James Branch Cabell Library)

Classic Papers and Books in Neonatology

Combined Medical Timeline (Wellcome Trust)

Dental History

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 Quackery to Bacteriology: The Emergence of Modern Medicine in 19th Century America

Herbal Medicine in Shakespeare's England from Dr. John Hall's Case Studies

Historical Medical Sites in the Washington D.C. Area

History of Dentistry

The History of the Commissioned Corps

History of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women

How to Write a Medical History Paper

International Bibliographic Guide to the History of Pathology

From One Moment to the Next: The Halifax Explosion

Iron Lung

Islamic Medical Manuscripts

Islamic Medicine

The Living City: New York City

Medical and Related Artifacts - Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Medical Antiques Online

Medical Artifacts Collection - Virginia Commonwealth University

Medieval Islamic Medicine

Martha Ballard's Diary Online (A Midwife's Tale)

A Midwife's Tale - The American Experience (PBS)

Mrs. Mary Breckinridge

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

Phisick Antique Medical Collection

The Pill (PBS)

Pre-1870 American Surgical Instruments

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

Sound and Fury: Deaf History (PBS)

Spices: Exotic Flavors and Medicines

Test Tube Babies- The American Experience (PBS)

Today in Health History

Today's Seeds for Tomorrow's Harvest: The Impact of Women Nutritionists

U.S. Army Dental Corps

Virginia Nursing History

Women Physician Autobiographies

World War I - The Medical Front


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JOURNALS

E-journals in the History of the Health Sciences

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

CONECTA: Bulletin of News in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Early Science and Medicine: A Journal of the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-Modern Period

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

Vesalius: Acta Internationalia Historiae Medicinae

Wellcome History


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Patricia E. Gallagher, MLS, AHIP

Stephen J. Greenberg, MSLS, PhD


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Last updated: 13 November 2009
The History of the Health Sciences Web Links page (http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm) is designed and maintained by Patricia E. Gallagher
Copyright © 2002 Patricia E. Gallagher and Stephen J. Greenberg for the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA