Knowledge: medicine
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Links
- History of Biomedicine: Indigenous Cultures
http://www.mic.ki.se/Indig.html - Numerous links to web pages on the contributions of indigenous cultures to the practice of medicine, from pre-history to present.
- US 19th-Century Doctors' Thoughts about Native American Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/if_you_knew/if_you_knew_04.html - Excerpts from comments made by white doctors on the nature of medical practice among Native Americans. Exhibition from the National Library of Medicine.
- Dying to Have a Baby - The History of Childbirth
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/manitoba_womens_health/hist1.htm - Chronicles the dangers that women and their newborns have faced during labor and delivery.
- Every Man His Own Doctor
http://www.librarycompany.org/doctor/everyman.html - An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.
- History of Anaesthesia
http://www.johnpowell.net/ - 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.
- Who Named It?
http://www.whonamedit.com/ - A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, i.e. medical conditions and techniques and the people for whom they are named.
- Historical Medical Digital Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
http://www.collphyphil.org/HMDLSubweb/indexhmdl.htm_1.htm - Title pages, contents pages, indexes, illustrations, and extracts from the text of many books availabale online.
- MMS - materia medica sinica
http://www.materia-medica-sinica.de/ - Online journal for the history of Chinese medicine.
- David Grove
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/davidigrove/DavidGrove.htm - The author of "A Human History of Helminthology", "Strongyloidiasis: a major roundworm infection of man" and "Alternative Medicine: fact or fiction?".
- Spanish American War Medicine
http://www.spanamwar.com/medical.htm - Medical practice in the Spanish American War, primarily by US Army medical staff and DAR Volunteer nurses upon US soldiers.
- MedHist
http://medhist.ac.uk/ - 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.
- The Origins of Chinese Medicine
http://www.logoi.com/notes/chinese_medicine.html - A short account by Imre Galambos of the origins of Chinese medical texts (1996).
- Images from the History of Medicine
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/ - 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 graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
- Global Project on the History of Leprosy
http://www.leprosyhistory.org - The International Leprosy Association is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world.
- Mad in America
http://www.madinamerica.com - A history of medical treatments for mental illness, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders, and why those treatments led to the antipsychiatry movement.
- ECG Library: A (Not So) Brief History of Electrocardiography
http://www.ecglibrary.com/ecghist.html - An illustrated timeline from 1600 onwards, including electrocuting chickens (1775) and hypothermic dogs (1953).
- Flash-Med:Medicine history and trivia
http://www.flash-med.com/Flash-Med-Trivia.asp - Medical education resource with facts and trivia about the history of medicine in a question and answer format.
- Classical Islamic Biomedicine
http://www.mic.ki.se/Arab.html - Index website maintained by the Karolinska Institute.
- PolioHistory - Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolioHistory/ - A place to share stories and resources about the history of polio; from the epidemics, to the vaccines, to post polio syndrome, to eradication.
- History of the Health Sciences Web Resources
http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm - List of links maintained by Patricia Gallagher and Stephen Greenburg for the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA
- History of Biomedicine
http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html - Features a historical perspective of the medical and biomedical fields, including useful research links. From the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
- Bibliography of Secondary Works in the History of Medicine and Related Health Fields
http://www.medlib.iupui.edu/hom/biblio.html - 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.
- Directory of History of Medicine Collections (NLM)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/directory/directoryhome.html - Database of libraries, archives, research, and museums that could be of interest to scholars interested in the history of the health sciences.
- Health Service Development and History
http://www.healthservice.info/ - Current developments in the British NHS, follow up to Geoffrey Rivett's Book, From Cradle to Grave
- London's Hospital System,
http://www.nhshistory.net/London's_hospitals.htm - 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
- Syphilis and AIDS: Lessons from history
http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/Aids/index.html#Photos - 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.
- Anesthesia History
http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm - Index to history of anaestheia resources on the Web
- A History of Cardiology
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/beatgoesonhistory/beatgoesonhistory.... - 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
- The Rise of Scientific Medicine
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/154.html - 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 establishment of the modern system of medicine.
- The Birth of the Clinic
http://www.california.com/~rathbone/foucbc.htm - Lois Shawver's notes on Foucault's Birth of the Clinic
- A Short History of Medical Careers
http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-1.html - From prehistoric shamanism to the 20th Century specialist.
- Mersenne
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mersenne.html - UK based discussion list for science, technology and medicine studies
- Phineas Gage
http://www.deakin.edu.au/hbs/GAGEPAGE/ - 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.
- The History of Dentistry
http://www.sadanet.co.za/dhw/history/overview.html - The story how dentistry developed through the ages to become the sophisticated medical science of today.
- In Our Time: Anatomy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020214.shtml - BBC Radio 4 discussion of 2,000 years of the study of human anatomy.
- The Ascelpion
http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/intro.HTM - Features topics about ancient medicine. Contains texts and illustrations.
- The Virtual Laboratory
http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ - 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.
- Pictures of Health
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13025/20040119/www.maps.jcu.edu.au/course/hist/index.html - 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".
- History of the Royal College of General Practitioners
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/history/histories/index.asp - 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 by subject. Links to Royal College of General Practitioners Archives pages.
- Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua
http://www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk/Medant/ - 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.
- 150 Years of Anesthesia 1846-1996
http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/History/ether1.htm - Presented by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Articles discuss the impact, people involved, surgery before anesthesia and current developments in the field.
- Dr. Samuel Overton, 19th Century Rural Physician
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsmith/pioneers/childress/toc.html - 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.
- Prize Microscopes Awarded by the New York Homeopathic Medical College. 1874-1916
http://www.antique-microscopes.com/prize_microscopes/pz.html - The New York Homeopathic Medical College awarded a prize microscope to the best graduates. This article is about this practice and it describes 5 of these prize microscopes.
- The Anatomists
http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/A/anatomists/medicine1.html - Describes the development of early surgeons progressing from part-time barbers to skilled medical professionals. Page includes biographies of key historic figures and events that led to the creation of the Anatomy Act.
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