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.
There has been additions to the list with information provided by Bruce Fye that gives a little background about what is on some of the sites.
Resources
Recent Doctoral Dissertations in the history of medicine and health care.
Columbia University Archives and Special Collections with searchable databases of collections
History of the Health
Sciences World Wide Web Links
An excellent site with links to search aids for archival material as well
as to published and online sources.
History of Medicine
Division of NLM
The History of Medicine Division has a separate reading room and expert
staff. This is where HistMed, the online database for publications in
the history of medicine is produced.
National Library of Medicine
To the main page of the national library. From here you can go to NLM
catalogs and databases. The NLM not only holds books and periodicals,
but has an extensive collection of images (with an online database) and
films.
Guide
to the History of Science
The History of Science Society has put their Guide on-line. It contains
links to many journals, other societies, and academic programs for the
history of science and/or medicine around the world. The Guide has a search
function, as well.
New York Academy
of Medicine Library
The Academy has a rich collection of historical materials and an energetic
curator for them. If you are in, or visiting, the NY city area, check
on the schedule of talks regularly given in the history of medicine and
health sciences.
Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum
The Clendening History of Medicine Library and
Museum is the rare books and manuscripts library of the University of Kansas Medical
Center.
The Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science is a consortium of eleven institutions with rich collections related to the history of medicine, science and technology. See our web site for links to our members' archives and libraries, announcements of fellowships, events, and online exhibits.
The University of Kansas, Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine
Truman
G. Blocker, Jr., History of Medicine Collections
(University of Texas Medical Branch)
University of Alabama Guide to History of Medicine Resources
History & Special Collections, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library University of California at Los Angeles
Military Medical History from the History Section of the Army Medical Department Center and School
History of Health Sciences Program, Department of Anthropology, History,
and Social Medicine (University of California, San Francisco)
The Society for the History Of Navy Medicine
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
Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Historical Center for the Health Sciences (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
International Society for the History of Medicine
Institute
for the History of Medicine and Health, Geneva (sponsors
international meetings in collaboration with the World Health Organization)
History of the Health Sciences Section of the Medical Library Association
Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences
History of Science Society (HSS has an online membership directory searchable by research fields as well as names and institutions)
British Society for the History of Science
Society for the Social History of Medicine
Society for Social Studies of Science
History of Dermatology Society
European Society for the History of the Human Sciences
Forum for History of Human Science
Society for the Preservation of Physician Assistant History
American Association for the History of Nursing, Inc.
NLM-sponsored link to libraries with significant collections of books and other materials related to the history of medicine
Medical / Health Science Libraries on the Web
libraries listed by state
History of Health Sciences World Wide Web Links
HIPPA Primer for historians of the health sciences
Southern Illinois University School of Medicinehttp://www.siumed.edu/medhum/
Uniformed Services University of the Health Scienceshttp://www.usuhs.mil/meh/meh.html
University of Arkansas for Medical Scienceshttp://www.uams.edu/humanities/course_faculty.asp
University of California Los Angeleshttp://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/
University of Connecticut School of Medicinehttp://www.commed.uchc.edu/medicalhumanities/weblinks.htm
University of Rochester Medical Centehttp://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/MedHum/
University of Washington http://depts.washington.edu/mhedept/
University of Virginiahttp://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/collect.cfm
NLM On-line Syllabus Archive
The world’s largest online collection of syllabi in the history of medicine
This valuable site can be searched by Professors, Titles, Institutions and Subjects
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/digital/syllabi/index.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/digital/syllabi/titlesall.html
Medical Humanities at New York University http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/index.html
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada http://humanities.medicine.dal.ca/program.htm
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES in the history of medicine
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