- The Beat Goes On: A History of Cardiology
Online guide to the history of cardiology and heart disease. Find out about early pacemakers and other old-fashioned cardiology treatments and surgeries. From the University of Iowa Medical Museum.
www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/beatgoesonhistory/beat...
- Medicina Antiqua
Resource for the study of Greco-Roman medicine and medical thought from Mycenaean times through the end of the Roman Empire period.
www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk
- Archaic Medical Terminology
Glossary of archaic or obsolete medical terminology and expressions.
www.gpiag-asthma.org/drpsmith/amt1.htm
- NLM Online Exhibitions
Including such topics as Islamic culture and medicine and cesarian section.
www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/exhibition.html
- Medical Library Association - History of the Health Sciences Section
For information professionals with an interest in the history of the health sciences.
www.mla-hhss.org
- Medicine and Madison Avenue
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Explores the relationship between modern medicine and modern advertising with examples of over 600 health-related advertisements from the 1910s to the 1950s.
scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma
- Whatever Happened to Polio?
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Examines the effects of polio epidemics in the U.S., the discovery of the polio vaccine, and polio today. From the National Museum of American History.
americanhistory.si.edu/polio
- Sigerist Circle
Organization interested in medical history, including class, race, gender, Marxist, and feminist perspectives.
www.sigeristcircle.org
- British Library: Bodies of Knowledge
Image gallery examines the ways different cultures throughout history have looked at and represented the human body.
www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/bodies/bodies.html
- Tuskegee Syphilis Study@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Syphilis/Tuskegee_Study
- Medical History of American Presidents
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Tabulates the illnesses of American Presidents and other notable people.
www.doctorzebra.com/prez
- Japanese Imperial Army Unit 731 Medical Experiments@
dir.yahoo.com/.../World_War_II/Unit_731
- Resources on the History of Idiocy
Bibliographies and primary source material on mental retardation and learning disabilities.
www.dundee.ac.uk/~mksimpso/welcome.htm
- World War II Combat Medic
Includes articles on the practice of field medicine, the work of combat medics, medal of honor citations, personal accounts, and photos.
home.att.net/~steinert
- International Network for the History of Hospitals
Promotes studies related to the historical evolution of hospitals from their beginnings to the present day.
www.inhh.homestead.com
- Index of Medieval Medical Images
Database of medieval manuscript images with medical components held in North American collections. From the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library at UCLA.
digital.library.ucla.edu/immi
- Greek Medicine
Online exhibit exploring the foundations of modern Western medicine from mythical healers such as Asclepius to ancient writers such as Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen.
www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek
- Johns Hopkins University - History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and combined MD-PhD programs.
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/graduateprograms/history_of_science
- Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images.
Relates the story of cholera outbreaks in the 19th Century through a collection of documents dating from 1817 to 1900 as well as drawings, political cartoons, and photographs.
www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cholera
- Cesarean Section: A Brief History
Brochure which accompanied an exhibition on the history of cesarean section at the National Library of Medicine in 1993.
www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean
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