History of Biomedicine: Indigenous Cultures

Numerous links to web pages on the contributions of indigenous cultures to the practice of medicine, from pre-history to present.
http://www.mic.ki.se/Indig.html

US 19th-Century Doctors' Thoughts about Native American Medicine.

Excerpts from comments made by white doctors on the nature of medical practice among Native Americans.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/if_you_knew/if_you_knew_04.html

Dying to Have a Baby - The History of Childbirth

Chronicles the dangers that women and their newborns have faced during labor and delivery.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/manitoba_womens_health/hist1.htm

Every Man His Own Doctor

An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century.
http://www.librarycompany.org/doctor/everyman.html

Medical Milestones

Indiainfoline presents med milestones giving the major breakthroughs in medical science that took place during the 20th Century.
http://www.indiainfoline.com/phar/mile/arch.html

History of Anaesthesia

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.
http://www.johnpowell.net/

The Orlop Deck

Naval Medicine in the 18th and 19th century. Links to re-enactment sources and medical information for the period.
http://www.theorlopdeck.org/

Sigerist Circle Home Page

Organization of medical historians, focusing on issues of class, race, and gender.
http://www.sigeristcircle.org/

The Reflex Hammer Home Page

Everything you ever wanted to know about reflex hammers, and then some.
http://www.med-psych.net/reflex/index.html

H-GIG Medicine and Public Health links.

Useful links from the University of California, Riverside.
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/hist-science/medic.html

Who Named It?

A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, i.e. medical conditions and techniques and the people for whom they are named.
http://www.whonamedit.com/

Historical Medical Digital Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Title pages, contents pages, indexes, illustrations, and extracts from the text of many books availabale online.
http://www.collphyphil.org/HMDLSubweb/indexhmdl.htm_1.htm

Dr. Samuel Overton, 19th Century Rural Physician

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.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txsmith/Pioneers/Childress/toc.html

MMS - materia medica sinica

Online journal for the history of Chinese medicine.
http://www.materia-medica-sinica.de/

David Grove

Dr. Grove is the author of "A Human History of Helminthology", "Strongyloidiasis: a major roundworm infection of man" and "Alternative Medicine: fact or fiction?".
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/davidigrove/DavidGrove.htm

Spanish American War Medicine

Medical practice in the Spanish American War, primarily by US Army medical staff and DAR Volunteer nurses upon US soldiers.
http://www.spanamwar.com/medical.htm

MedHist

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.
http://medhist.ac.uk/

The origins of Chinese medicine - the early development of medical literature in China

A short account of the origins of Chinese medical texts. Written by Imre Galambos (1996)
http://www.logoi.com/notes/chinese_medicine.html

Images from the History of Medicine

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 grap
http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

Global Project on the History of Leprosy

The International Leprosy Association is developing a database of leprosy archives around the world.
http://www.leprosyhistory.org

Mad in America

A history of medical treatments for mental illness, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders, and why those treatments led to the antipsychiatry movement.
http://www.madinamerica.com

Dietetic fragments of Rufus of Ephesos in Syriac language

This site contains an edition of dietetic fragments of Rufus of Ephesos in Syriac language, together with German translation and commentary. PDF (1,3 MB)
http://www.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/sem/Rufus.pdf

ECG Library: A (Not So) Brief History of Electrocardiography

An illustrated timeline from 1600 onwards, including electrocuting chickens (1775) and hypothermic dogs (1953).
http://www.ecglibrary.com/ecghist.html

Flash-Med:Medicine history and trivia

Medical education resource with facts and trivia about the history of medicine in a question and answer format.
http://www.flash-med.com/Flash-Med-Trivia.asp

Classical Islamic Biomedicine

Index website maintained by the Karolinska Institute.
http://www.mic.ki.se/Arab.html

The Scottish Society of the History of Medicine

Website of the Scottish Society of the HIstory of Medicine
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~sshm/

PolioHistory - Yahoo Group

A place to share stories and resources about the history of polio; from the epidemics, to the vaccines, to post polio syndrome, to eradication.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PolioHistory/

History of the Health Sciences Web Resources

List of links maintained by Patricia Gallagher and Stephen Greenburg for the History of the Health Sciences Section of MLA
http://www.mla-hhss.org/histlink.htm

Lothian Health Services Archive

A repository for institutional administrative and clinical records, private papers, photographs and objects relating to the past and present of Lothian health.
http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/

Special Collections and Archives in the USA

Portal for history of medical science archive resources. Sorted by state.
http://info.med.yale.edu/library/historical/speccoll.htm

History of Biomedicine

Features a historical perspective of the medical and biomedical fields, including useful research links. From the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html

Bibliography of Secondary Works in the History of Medicine and Related Health Fields

A non-critical electronic bibliography from the Ruth Lilly Medical Library of monographs and classic works in the field of American history of medicine and related topics.
http://www.medlib.iupui.edu/hom/biblio.html

Directory of History of Medicine Collections (NLM)

Database of libraries, archives, research, and museums that could be of interest to scholars interested in the history of the health sciences.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/directory/directoryhome.html

Health Service Development and History

Current developments in the British NHS, follow up to Geoffrey Rivett's Book, From Cradle to Grave
http://www.healthservice.info/

London's Hospital System,

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
http://www.nhshistory.net/London's_hospitals.htm

Syphilis and AIDS: Lessons from history

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.
http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/Aids/index.html#Photos

Anesthesia History

Index to history of anaestheia resources on the Web
http://www.anes.uab.edu/aneshist/aneshist.htm

A History of Cardiology

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
http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/beatgoesonhistory/beatgoesonhistory.html

The Rise of Scientific Medicine

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 e
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/154.html

The Birth of the Clinic

Hypertext lecture notes on Foucault's account of the development of modern medicine
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/BirthOfTheClinic/

The Birth of the Clinic

Lois Shawver's notes on Foucault's Birth of the Clinic
http://www.california.com/~rathbone/foucbc.htm

A Short History of Medical Careers

From prehistoric shamanism to the 20th Century specialist.
http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/hist-1.html

Mersenne

UK based discussion list for science, technology and medicine studies
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mersenne.html

Phineas Gage

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.
http://www.deakin.edu.au/hbs/GAGEPAGE/

Inhalatorium

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.
http://inhalatorium.com

The History of Dentistry

The story how dentistry developed through the ages to become the sophisticated medical science of today.
http://www.sadanet.co.za/dhw/history/overview.html

In Our Time: Anatomy

BBC Radio 4 discussion of 2,000 years of the study of human anatomy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20020214.shtml

The Ascelpion

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
http://www.indiana.edu/~ancmed/intro.HTM

The Virtual Laboratory

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.
http://vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/

Pictures of Health

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".
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13025/20040119/www.maps.jcu.edu.au/course/hist/index.html

History of the Royal College of General Practitioners

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
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/history/histories/index.asp

Public Record Office | Hospital Records Database

This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of hospitals in the UK.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/

Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua

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.
http://www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk/Medant/