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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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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A Short History of Medical Careers - http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-1.html
From prehistoric shamanism to the 20th-century specialist. Developed by students for ThinkQuest. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Birth of the Clinic - http://www.california.com/~rathbone/foucbc.htm
Lois Shawver's notes on Foucault's Birth of the Clinic |
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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. |
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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. |
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Before Depression - http://www.beforedepression.com
A research project by the English departments of the Universities of Northumbria and Sunderland on what depression was before it was called depression (1660-1800). Details of public lectures, a conference, an exhibition and publications. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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". |
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Health Service Development and History - http://www.nhshistory.com/
Current developments in the British NHS, follow up to Geoffrey Rivett's Book, From Cradle to Grave |