- NLM Online Exhibitions
Including such topics as Islamic culture and medicine and cesarian section.
www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/exhibition.html
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Resources on the History of Idiocy
Bibliographies and primary source material on mental retardation and learning disabilities.
www.dundee.ac.uk/~mksimpso/welcome.htm
- 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
- Johns Hopkins University - History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and combined MD-PhD programs.
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/graduateprograms/history_of_science
- 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
- 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
- Japanese Imperial Army Unit 731 Medical Experiments@
dir.yahoo.com/.../World_War_II/Unit_731
- 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
- American Experience: The Boy in the Bubble
Considers the life of David Vetter, born with no immune system and famed as the boy in the plastic bubble. Features footage of his life, information about his family and doctors, and opinions about the ethics surrounding his life and death.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bubble
- Dentist on a Camel
Pictorial history of the pioneering dentist H.V. Mattingley and his exploits on the Western Australian goldfields before the turn of the century.
www.alphalink.com.au/~vaux
- Drug Trade: Therapy, Pharmacy, and Commerce in Early-Modern Europe
Exhibition presents pharmacy jars, manufactured from the 16th to the 18th century, with their printed herbals, at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/drugtrade
- The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations
Features Loren Carey MacKinney's collection of images from medieval medical manuscripts. From the University of North Carolina.
www.lib.unc.edu/dc/mackinney
- NLM's Frankenstein Exhibit
The Frankenstein novel, and its films, seen through the modern topic of medical ethics. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Maryland.
www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/frankenstein/index.html
- Anatomia 1522-1867
A searchable collection of illustrations of human anatomy from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia
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