Medical History and Bioethics
Archives and Collections
National Library of MedicineU.S. National Archives and Record Administration
Image archive on the American Eugenics Movement Rare book, manuscript, and special collections at Duke/
The Yellow Fever Collection: major themes and personalities in the history of yellow fever
Aventis Pasteur polio eradication home
Making of America: is a digital library of primary sources in American History from the antebellum period through reconstruction
Primary sources for the history of sex, sexuality and the construction of gender
Living City: a digital library initiative intended to capture the experience of life, health, and urban transformation during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I.
First Person:Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
American Story and Life provides chronologies and hundreds of brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history.
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Bibliographies
History of Race in ScienceAbout a thousand entries concerning race; emphasizing English writings on 19th and 20th-century America, Europe, and Colonialism.
The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology
A Bibliographic guide to the professions and the disciplines.
Women Physicians' Autobiographies
Black Nurses in History provides a bibliography and guide to web resources regarding black nurses and their struggle for equality in the profession.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
American Women's History: A Research Guide - Sexuality
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
NYU Medical Humanities Database
↑back to topBulletin Boards and Blogs
H-Sci-Med-Tech is a discussion list and web site for scholars who study science, medicine and technology across a wide variety of periods and regions of the world.Disability Social History Project
History of Sexuality (on H-Net)
↑back to topFunding Sources
American College of Obstetricians and GynecologistsAmerican Association of University Women
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Radcliffe Institute fellowships
↑back to topGetting Started in Bioethics
International Network on Femenist Approaches to Bioethics
The Centers for Law & the Public's Health
The President's Council on Bioethics
The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
↑back to topGetting Started in Medical History
MedHist: UK's gateway to resources for the history of medicineHistory of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links
Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de medecine, Paris
Health Heritage Research: Preserving, promoting and profiting from Canada's healthcare heritage and planning for a healthy future
History of Health Sciences Resources
DoHistory invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past. It is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale, which were both based upon the remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard.
↑back to topJournals - Medical History
Gender Watch: publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.Project Muse is a worldwide institutional subscription access to the full text of more than 200 scholarly journals
J-STOR: A scholarly journal archive
Guide to periodical literature
Poole's index to periodical literature, 1802-1907
↑back to topJournals - Bioethics
American Journal of Law & Medicine
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics
The Newsletter of The Network on Ethics and Intellectual Disabilities
↑back to topProfessional Societies
American Association for the History of MedicineAmerican Historical Association has Directory of Affiliated Societies with links to many history-related websites
American Society for Environmental History
American Society of Church History
British Society for the History of Science
Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
Forum for the History of Human Sciences
American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
Organization of American Historians
Society for Medical Anthropology
Society for the Social History of Medicine:
American Society for Bioethics
Association for Medical Humanities (UK)
International Association of Bioethics
↑back to topVirtual Museums
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia displays special exhibits covering the both the history of medicine and current issues in health and medicine. The Métter Museum displays the College's collections of fluid-preserved anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, anatomical and pathological models, memorabilia of famous scientists and physicians, and medical illustrations in various formats.Museum of Menstruation and Womençs Health
The National Library of Medicine houses nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the NLM.
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