- Every Man His Own Doctor - http://www.librarycompany.org/doctor/everyman.html
An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.
- Medical Milestones - http://www.indiainfoline.com/phar/mile/arch.html
Indiainfoline presents med milestones giving the major breakthroughs in medical science that took place during the 20th Century.
- 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.
- The Orlop Deck - http://www.theorlopdeck.org/
Naval Medicine in the 18th and 19th century. Links to re-enactment sources and medical information for the period.
- Sigerist Circle Home Page - http://www.sigeristcircle.org/
Organization of medical historians, focusing on issues of class, race, and gender.
- The Reflex Hammer Home Page - http://www.med-psych.net/reflex/index.html
Everything you ever wanted to know about reflex hammers, and then some.
- 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.
- Dr. Samuel Overton, 19th Century Rural Physician - http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsmith/Pioneers/Childress/toc.html
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.
- David Grove - http://mywebpage.netscape.com/davidigrove/DavidGrove.htm
Dr. Grove is the author of "A Human History of Helminthology", "Strongyloidiasis: a major roundworm infection of man" and "Alternative Medicine: fact or fiction?".
- 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.
- MedHist - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lothian Health Services Archive - http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/
A repository for institutional administrative and clinical records, private papers, photographs and objects relating to the past and present of Lothian health.
- 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.
- Directory of History of Medicine Collections (NLM) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/directory/directoryhome.html
Database of libraries, archives, research, and museums that could be of interest to scholars interested in the history of the health sciences.
- London's Hospital System, - http://www.nhshistory.net/London's_hospitals.htm
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
- Syphilis and AIDS: Lessons from history - http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/Aids/index.html#Photos
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.
- Anesthesia History - http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm
Index to history of anaestheia resources on the Web
- 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
- 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.
- The Birth of the Clinic - http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/BirthOfTheClinic/
Hypertext lecture notes on Foucault's account of the development of modern medicine
- The Birth of the Clinic - http://www.california.com/~rathbone/foucbc.htm
Lois Shawver's notes on Foucault's Birth of the Clinic
- Mersenne - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mersenne.html
UK based discussion list for science, technology and medicine studies
- 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.
- Inhalatorium - http://inhalatorium.com
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.
- The History of Dentistry - http://www.sadanet.co.za/dhw/history/overview.html
The story how dentistry developed through the ages to become the sophisticated medical science of today.
- 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.
- The Ascelpion - http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/intro.HTM
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 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua - http://www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk/Medant/
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.
- 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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