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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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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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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 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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http://medhist.ac.uk/ - 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. |
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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. |