Institutions
Centre for the History of Medicine, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and , College of Physicians of Philadelphia History of M, Institute for History of Medicine, Robert Bosch Fo, Medical Heritage Center at The Ohio State Universi, National Library of Medicine: History of Medicine , Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Organizations
American Association of the History of Medicine, Anesthesia History Association, Hartford Medical Society, INHOEP, International Network for the History of Hospitals, International Society for the History of Medicine
People
Bethune, Norman, Ambrose Pare - Journeys in Diverse Places, Collected Papers of R.A. Fisher 1890-1962, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell: That Girl There is Doctor of , Hilary Koprowski, M.D., Hippocrates - Works, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Hippocrates, John Snow, Joseph Lister, Oliva Sabuco
Publications
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Scie, Oxford Brookes University: Medical Video Archive, The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of The Joh, The James Lind Library, UHR Books
150 Years of Anesthesia 1846-1996
"We Have Conquered Pain: A Celebration of Ether," presented by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University.
A Bibliography of Greek and Roman Medicine
Bibliography compiled by Robert Arnott of University of Birmingham. Useful, but few links to full text. Last updated February 2002
A History of Cardiology
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/beatgoesonhistory/beatgoesonhistory.html
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 History of Medical Careers
From prehistoric shamanism to the 20th Century specialist.
Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua
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.
Anesthesia History
Index to history of anaestheia resources on the Web
Bibliography of Secondary Works in the History of
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.
Classical Islamic Biomedicine
Index website maintained by the Karolinska Institute.
David Grove
Dr. Grove is the author of "A Human History of Helminthology", "Strongyloidiasis: a major roundworm infection of man" and "Alternative Medicine: fact or fiction?".
Dietetic fragments of Rufus of Ephesos in Syriac l
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)
Directory of History of Medicine Collections (NLM)
Database of libraries, archives, research, and museums that could be of interest to scholars interested in the history of the health sciences.
Dr. Samuel Overton, 19th Century Rural Physician
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.
Dying to Have a Baby - The History of Childbirth
Chronicles the dangers that women and their newborns have faced during labor and delivery.
ECG Library: A (Not So) Brief History of Electroca
An illustrated timeline from 1600 onwards, including electrocuting chickens (1775) and hypothermic dogs (1953).
Every Man His Own Doctor
An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.
Flash-Med:Medicine history and trivia
Medical education resource with facts and trivia about the history of medicine in a question and answer format.
Global Project on the History of Leprosy
The International Leprosy Association is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world.
H-GIG Medicine and Public Health links.
Useful links from the University of California, Riverside.
Health Service Development and History
Current developments in the British NHS, follow up to Geoffrey Rivett's Book, From Cradle to Grave
Historical Medical Digital Library of the College
Title pages, contents pages, indexes, illustrations, and extracts from the text of many books availabale online.
History of Anaesthesia
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.
History of Biomedicine
Features a historical perspective of the medical and biomedical fields, including useful research links. From the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
History of Biomedicine: Indigenous Cultures
Numerous links to web pages on the contributions of indigenous cultures to the practice of medicine, from pre-history to present.
History of the Health Sciences Web Resources
List of links maintained by Patricia Gallagher and Stephen Greenburg for the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA
History of the Royal College of General Practition
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.
Images from the History of Medicine
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.
In Our Time: Anatomy
BBC Radio 4 discussion of 2,000 years of the study of human anatomy.
Inhalatorium
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.
London's Hospital System,
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
Lothian Health Services Archive
A repository for institutional administrative and clinical records, private papers, photographs and objects relating to the past and present of Lothian health.
Mad in America
A history of medical treatments for mental illness, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders, and why those treatments led to the antipsychiatry movement.
MedHist
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.
Medical Milestones
Indiainfoline presents med milestones giving the major breakthroughs in medical science that took place during the 20th Century.
Mersenne
UK based discussion list for science, technology and medicine studies
MMS - materia medica sinica
Online journal for the history of Chinese medicine.
Phineas Gage
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.
Pictures of Health
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".
PolioHistory - Yahoo Group
A place to share stories and resources about the history of polio; from the epidemics, to the vaccines, to post polio syndrome, to eradication.
Public Record Office ; Hospital Records Database
This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of hospitals in the UK.
Sigerist Circle Home Page
Organization of medical historians, focusing on issues of class, race, and gender.
Spanish American War Medicine
Medical practice in the Spanish American War, primarily by US Army medical staff and DAR Volunteer nurses upon US soldiers.
Special Collections and Archives in the USA
Portal for history of medical science archive resources. Sorted by state.
Syphilis and AIDS: Lessons from history
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.
The Ascelpion
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 history course Ancient Medicine (History C380/580), taught by Professor Nancy Demand at Indiana University Bloomington.
The Birth of the Clinic
Hypertext lecture notes on Foucault's account of the development of modern medicine
The Birth of the Clinic
Lois Shawver's notes on Foucault's Birth of the Clinic
The History of Dentistry
The story how dentistry developed through the ages to become the sophisticated medical science of today.
The origins of Chinese medicine - the early develo
A short account of the origins of Chinese medical texts. Written by Imre Galambos (1996)
The Orlop Deck
Naval Medicine in the 18th and 19th century. Links to re-enactment sources and medical information for the period.
The Reflex Hammer Home Page
Everything you ever wanted to know about reflex hammers, and then some.
The Rise of Scientific Medicine
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 Scottish Society of the History of Medicine
Website of the Scottish Society of the HIstory of Medicine
The Virtual Laboratory
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.
US 19th-Century Doctors' Thoughts about Nativ
Excerpts from comments made by white doctors on the nature of medical practice among Native Americans.
Who Named It?
A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, i.e. medical conditions and techniques and the people for whom they are named.