Links

Institutes and Departments

Associated Medical Services/Hannah Institute, Toronto - http://php.ams-inc.on.ca/

Centre for the History of Medicine & Disease, Durham University, U.K. - http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/

German Historical Institute in Washington (GHI) - http://www.ghi-dc.org/

Upcoming conference: The 15th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History in the Nineteenth Century (1780-1918) will be held at the GHI April 29 - May 2, 2009. Doctoral students working in related disciplines (art history, legal history or the history of science) are also encouraged to apply. GHI is accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage but who will be granted their degrees after June 2009. Applications and letters of reference must be received by December 1, 2008. For more information and to view the "Call for Papers," please click on the main GHI site (http://www.ghi-cd.org/) and follow the links to "Events & Conferences" then "Calls for Papers."

Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University - http://www.mcgill.ca/ssom/

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/

Libraries

Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (an alliance of the Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical School) - https://www.countway.harvard.edu/lenya/countway/live/index.html

Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa - http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/

To view the most recent POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL HUMANITIES DISSERTATIONS in the Health Sciences Library System (University of Pittsburgh) pertaining to the History of Science and Medicine, please click here

National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Bethesda, MD - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html Due to current security measures at NIH, off-campus visitors are advised to consult the NLM Visitors and Security website: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/visitor.html

Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University - http://www.mcgill.ca/osler-library

Philips S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Library Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville - http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu/reed/

Scriptorium Library, Duke University - http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/mma/

U.S. National Library of Medicine - Online images from the history of medicine - http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/gw_44_3/chameleon?skin=nlm&lng=en

Wellcome Library, London, UK - http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/

Museums

Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charite (The Berlin Medical History Museum) - http://www.bmm.charite.de

Check out the new website for Bob McCoy, world-renowned expert on Medical Quackery and Health Fraud (http://www.museumofquackery.com/) and founder of The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, now located at the Science Museum of Minnesota (http://www.smm.org/visit/collections).

Universite Paris Descartes (Paris Descartes University) - http://www.univ-paris5.fr/spip.php?article2115

Online Collections & Exhibitions

The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project - http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/

Biodic, the largest Ultrastructure images gallery online, hosted by the Universite libre de Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) - http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/biodic/

"NEUROCULTURES" - Cultural History and Impact of the Neurosciences Project: The website of this project is jointly pursued at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and the Institute for Social Medicine at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Texts, commentaries and images will be posted about once a month. Also, a call for contributions can be found in http://www.brainfood.net/.

Intute: Health & Life Sciences - MedHist: MedHist is a gateway to evaluated, high quality Internet resources and websites relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge - http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/medhist/

Making Visible Embryos online exhibition: This online exhibition is about how embryo images were produced and made to represent some of the most potent biomedical objects and subjects of our time -- http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/visibleembryos/

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in collaboration with the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health announces "An Iconography of Contagion: An Exhibition of 20th Century Health Poster," from September 2 - December 19, 2008. This exhibition features more than 20 health posters from the 1920s-1990s covering infectious diseases (malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, gonorrhea and syphilis) from North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. An exhibition catalog is available upon request from: http://www.cpnas.org/exhibitions/an-iconography-of-contagion.html

Science.ca - The best source for Canadian science which describes Canada's greatest scientists and their achievements - http://www.science.ca/

An internet exbibition of patient photographs from the history of psychiatry shall appear soon. To check it out, click here and go to "Aktuelles"

Online Resources

Nobel Foundation - Electronic Nobel Museum Project - http://www.nobelprize.org/

National Academy of Sciences - http://www.nationalacademies.org/

Societies & Interest Groups

American Association for the History of Medicine - http://www.histmed.org/

American Osler Society - http://www.americanosler.org/

Canadian Society for the History of Medicine - http://www.cshm-schm.ca/

Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik - http://www.dggmnt.de/

History of Science Society - http://www.hssonline.org/

International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN) - http://www.bri.ucla.edu/nha/ishn/

History of Neuroscience Interest Group (HONIG) - http://www.ucalgary.ca/honig/upcoming