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  History of Health Sciences Resource Guide

Librarian
Name: Jodi Koste
Phone: (804) 828-9898
Email: jlkoste@vcu.edu

Getting Started

Biographies

Databases

Specialized databases are listed below. In addition, VCU faculty, students, and staff have access to America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts. VCU

  • Online Archive of American Folk Medicine
    Index to the UCLA Archive of American Folk Medicine which documents beliefs and practices relating to folk medicine and alternative healthcare.
  • Ask Osleriana
    A Searchable Database Electronic Documents Archives by or about Sir William Osler compiled by Alexander D. Jones & H. Michael Jones, MD and maintained by the American Osler Society.
  • Germ Theory Calendar
    The Germ Theory Calendar (GTC) is a web-accessible database, intended as a source of information on the historical development of the germ theory of disease. It deals primarily with diseases of humans and other animals but also includes some diseases of plants. It ends with the year 1900 C. E.
  • History of Medicine in PubMed VCU
    The History of Medicine in PubMed subset, available through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed interface, is an index to the secondary literature dealing with the history of medicine and related fields published since 1965. Select the "History of Medicine" subset from the topics subset list.
  • History of Medicine: Online Syllabus Archive
    History of Medicine Online Syllabus Archive compiled by the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine provides both an online syllabus exchange and a historical record of teaching in the history of medicine.
  • IndexCat
    IndexCat, the online version of the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, U.S. Army (61 volumes in 5 series, 1880-1961), is a comprehensive subject catalog of books, pamphlets, dissertations, reports, and journal articles published from the 17th-20th century and held by National Library of Medicine.
  • MIND (Modern Inventors Documentation) Database
    A database from the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center identifies the invention-related holdings of hundreds of archives across the United States. The collections in the database cover a variety of subjects, with many from medical, consumer, scientific, household and legal fields.
  • Native American Health History
    A database created by the Health Sciences Center Library, University of New Mexico of  health related articles concerning Native Americans from the years 1764-1965.

Medical Images

Virginia Resources

Hospitals

Histories, Bibliographies, Exhibits and Other Resources

These sites, arranged by subject include online exhibits, histories of health sciences topics or institutions and bibliographies of materials related to the history of the health sciences.

Medical Artifacts

Information and images of medical and scientific instruments and equipment.  See the Museum sections for additional sites related to this topic.

History of Medicine Organizations and Associations

Libraries

Museums

Many health sciences libraries also have museum collections. See Libraries section for additional institutions.

Journals

Books and Book Dealers

Electronic Books on the History of Medicine

  • Electronic Text in the History of Medicine
    Popular medical texts from the 15th through 18th century made available by Yale University.
  • Heirs of Hippocrates
    The web based version of Heirs of Hippocrates, a bibliography of the history of medicine collection at the Harden Library, University of Iowa.
  • Medicine in the Americas
    A digital library initiative of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine providing access to American medical books in the period from 1610 to 1914.
  • The Physician's Handbook
    The Physician's Handbook is an English medical and astrological compendium of some 100 leaves written in the middle of the 15th century and found in the collections of the Wellcome Library.
  • Turning the Pages Online
    Aninmated texts from the collections of the National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division.
  • Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine
    Series published by the the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine that consists of transcripts of the Witness Seminars at which significant figures in medicine discuss specific discoveries or events in twentieth-century medical history.

Antiquarian Book Dealers Specializing in Medicine

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