AAHM Education and Research

There are literally thousands of web sites that deal with aspects of history, medicine, health, and disease. Links from the list below will take you other collections of links and to sites with advice for searching for information on the history of medicine. A few links to major libraries and academic departments have also been included, as well as a link to information about NLM grants for research in the history of medicine. Please send suggestions for sites with exceptional collections of updated resources and search tools to the Webmaster. Include a short description of the site that will help browsers determine its usefulness for their needs.

Research Tools

Recent Worldwide Doctoral Dissertations in the History of Medicine

History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links

HIPAA Primer for historians of the health sciences

H-Sci-Med-Tech Internet Discussion Group for Historians of Science, Medicine and Technology

National Library of Medicine's online syllabus archive

Guide to the History of Science

Institutes for the History of Medicine and Health in Europe: A Guide

The Supercourse is a global repository of lectures with an increasing number of heavy annotated power point presentations on historyof medicine /public health/science topics.

Programs and Departments

The Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science

The Department of History & Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas

History of Health Sciences Program, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine UCSF

Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society, Emory University

Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania

University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Medicine Department

History of Modern Biomedicine Reserach Group at Queen Mary, University of London

Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan

University of Minnesota, Program in the History of Medicine (undergraduate and graduate)

Yale University History of Medicine

The Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at University College, London

Institute for the History of Medicine and Health, Geneva

The Department of Medical Humanities SIU

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Medical Humanities, Health Law, and Ethics UConn

University of Rochester Medical Center

University of Washington

University of Virginia

Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Foundations

Life Sciences Foundation

Columbia University Archives and Special Collections

History of Medicine Division of NLM

National Library of Medicine

New York Academy of Medicine Library

Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum

Truman G. Blocker, Jr., History of Medicine Collections
(University of Texas Medical Branch)

History and Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences

Medical / Health Science Libraries on the Web

UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Academic Societies

The American Osler Society

The Society for the History Of Navy Medicine 

International Society for the History of Medicine

History of Science Society

British Society for the History of Science

Society for the Social History of Medicine

History of Anesthesia Society

The History of Dermatology Society

European Society for the History of the Human Sciences

The Forum for History of Human Science

Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Society for the Preservation of Physician Assistant History

American Association of the History of Nursing, Inc.

The Oral History Association

Society for the Preservation of Physician Assistant History

American Association of the History of Nursing, Inc.