Medicine subject guide - Links
History of medicine
Databases | Government sites | University sites | Other resources | Organisations and associations
Databases
U.S. National Library of Medicine. History of Medicine Division
Includes links to a collections exhibitions and a number of databases.
NLM Gateway: which includes information from the now defunct HISTLINE.
IMAGES from the History of Medicine: which provides access to the nearly 60,000 images including portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.
Government sites
10 Great Public Health Achievements in the 20th Century
The CDC site includes the following achievements: Immunizations, Healthier Mothers and Babies, Workplace Safety, the Decline in Death from Heart Disease and Stroke, the Control of Infectious Diseases, and Vehicle Safety.
U.S. National Library of Medicine. History of Medicine Division
U.S. National Library of Medicine. NIH. Online Exhibitions
including sites like Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts and Cesarian Section -- A Brief History.
University sites
BIOME MedHist
A guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet
MedHist offers free access to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering the history of medicine.
Karolinska Institute History of Biomedicine
Provides links to numerous sites on the following topics Indigenous Cultures, Mesopotamian Medicine, Western Biomedicine , the History of Diseases, etc.
University of Buffalo History of Medicine
Welcome Trust, UK. History of Medicine
Other resources
James Lind Library
Produced by the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh this library contains historical information on clinical tests for medical treatments.
History of Orthopaedics
A brief history of Orthopaedics by Vlasios Brakoulias.
Museum of Questionable Medical Devices