Further Resources in History of Medicine

Below are listed a variety of resources useful for research in the History of Medicine.

• Electronic Databases and Directories -- Alphabetic List (includes subscription databases)
• Funding Information
  • NLM Grants & Funding
  • NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (PAR 05-025) (supersedes the NLM Publication Grants.
  • NLM Extramural Programs (EP) Division
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
  • Fundamentals of NLM Grants (powerpoint presentation)
  • Publication Grants (See the NLM Grant for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health)
• Short Publications by History of Medicine Division
• History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive
• History of Health Services Research Project
• Resources on the History of Psychiatry from the History of Medicine Division of NLM by Emily Martin & Lorna Rhodes (pdf)
• Selected Sources for Biographical Information about 17th - Early 20th Century American Physicians (pdf)
• Online Miscellaneous Guides
  • A Guide to Collections Relating to the History of Artificial Organs
  • Directory of History of Medicine Collections
  • Guide to Library and Archival Collections of African Americans in Medicine and Biomedical Research
  • Guide to Oral Histories in Medicine and the Health Sciences
• Places to Visit
  • Historic Medical Sites in the Washington, DC Area
  • NIH Stetten Museum of Medical Research
• Web Resources in History of Medicine (Non-NLM)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Oral History Series
  Interviews and an eyewitness account of the evolution of the Department, the Agency, and the programs. Focuses on the early years of Medicare and Medicaid.
• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Publications on the History of Public Health
  • The Quest for a Healthy America: Celebrating 100 Years of Health - bilingual publication
    This book tells through historic and modern photographs the story of PAHO and public health in the Americas over the course of the last 100 years.
  • El valor de la Salud. Historia de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud - Spanish
    This publication encompasses the work of men and women who had given proof of idealism, knowledge, dedication, and courage.

Short Publications by History of Medicine Division

• American Contributions to Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery, 1986 (pdf)
• American Contributions to the New Age of Dental Research, 1988 (pdf)
• Arcana Alphanumerica Or, the Secrets of HMD Call Numbers Revealed, 1992 (pdf)
• The Art of Learning Medicine, 1970 (pdf)
• The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century, 1994 (pdf)
• Aviation Medicine, from the Aeronauts to the eve of the astronauts, 1979 (pdf)
• A Biomedical Index to the Correspondence of Rene Descartes, 1986 (pdf)
• Catalog of an Exhibit in Honor of the Sesquicentennial of the Birth of Louis Pasteur, 1973 (pdf)
• A Celebration of Public Health Nursing in the United States, 1893-1993 (pdf)
• Cesarean Section--A Brief History, 1993 (pdf)
• A Century of American Physiology, 1987 (pdf)
• Educating Physicians in the Nineteenth Century, 1988 (pdf)
• The Emergence of Experimental Embryology in the United States, 1990 (pdf)
• The Emergence of Modern Child Health Care in America, 1972 (pdf)
• The Extravagant Georges Fattet: Caricature and French Dentistry, 1991 (pdf)
• Fevers, Agues, and Cures: Medical Life in Old Virginia 1991(pdf)
• Highlights in Medicolegal Relations, 1968 (pdf)
• Historic Hospitals of Europe, 1200-1981, 1985 (pdf)
• Images of Hospital Pharmacy in America, 1992 (pdf)
• Library/Information Services Sponsored by the Regional Medical Programs, 1991 (pdf)
• The Los Angeles County Hospital-through the Eyes of the Artist, 1981 (pdf)
• Louis Pasteur 1822-1895, 1973(pdf)
• Medical Incunabula and the Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge, 1984 (pdf)
• Medicine and the Naturalist Tradition, 1989 (pdf)
• Medicine and Music, 1977? (pdf)
• Medicine of the American Indians, 1971 (pdf)
• Medicine of the Civil War, 1973 (pdf)
• Medicine on the Early Western Frontier, 1978 (pdf)
• Mental Disease Moving Images Pre-1950 at the National Library of Medicine,(pdf)
• Mind And Body: Rene Descartes to William James 1992 (pdf)
• National Library of Medicine's Motion Pictures and Videocassettes, about the Public Health Service and Its Agencies, 1998 (pdf)
• The New Age of Health Laboratories 1885-1915, 1987 (pdf)
• New Frontiers in Health Communication, 1986 (pdf)
• Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years, 1993 (pdf)
• The Physician as Artist: An Exhibit of Selected Works by Meyer M. Melicow, 1975 (pdf)
• Pre-Columbian Medicine: Historical Sources, 1981 (pdf)
• The Prints and Photographs Collection of the National Library of Medicine (pdf)
• Prints Relating to Dentistry, 1967 (pdf)
• The Public Health Act, 1848 (pdf)
• Public Health in New York City in the Late Nineteenth Century, 1990 (pdf)
• A Quatercentenary Exhibit, Conrad Gesner, Physician, Scholar, Scientist 1516-1565, 1965 (pdf)
• To Your Health: An Exhibition of Posters for Contemporary Public Health Issues, 1990 (pdf)
• The United States Public Health Service: An Historical Bibliography of Selected Sources, 1998 (pdf)
• Witchcraft and Medicine (1484-1793), 1974 (pdf)
• Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors, 1879-1886: A checklist, 1985 (pdf)
• Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (pdf)

Web Resources in the History of Medicine (Non-NLM)

• Library & Archival Collections
• Online Catalogs & Databases
• Museums
• Journals
• Exhibitions
• Images
• Films & Audiovisual
• Graduate Programs
• Grants
• Associations
• Link Sites
• LISTSERV

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