Using the UI Libraries: the Infohawk catalog and on-line biblographical indices
Selected internet sites and open access bibliographic indices
The History of Medicine in Western Society
Selected internet sites and open access bibliographical indices
It now takes nearly a full-time effort to keep up with all of the online information that could be useful for doing research projects in the history of medicine. The following are among the most reputable and supported sites for tracking down references and images.
The National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine has a History of Medicine Division which has tried to keep up with the changing demands for information. Until recently, the History of Medicine Division supported a separate online database, which took over from a printed Bibliography in the History of Medicine, for current literature on the history of medicine. This database, Histline, closed to new entries in the summer of 2000. New entries, and the items in the existing Histline, are being added to the main NLM databases. These are accessed through PubMed. The National Library of Medicine's own catalog of materials, LocatorPlus, can be useful when looking for titles that the University of Iowa does not have.
Images
from the History of Medicine
The History of Medicine Division also has an image database,
as well as resources on how to find other images on historical
subjects.
Index-Catalogue
of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United
States Army.
Published in 5 series in 61 volumes from
1880 to 1961. This is a fabulous resource for historians,
recently put on line with partly through the efforts
of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
The print versions are still vital resources, as well,
and they are on the shelves in Hardin Library.
Library of Congress
The catalog of the Library
of Congress is enormous. You can search it for
published books, pamphets and journals; it is not an
index to periodical (journal) literature, so references
to articles in journals will not appear.The Library
of Congress also hosts a collection called "American
Memory," which contains "America's story
in sound, words and pictures." This is rather
like an on-line slide show, and there are some items
about health.
The Wellcome Library:
MedHist - Internet gateway
The Wellcome
Library: Catalog and bibliographic resources
The Wellcome Trust, UK, is a major foundation that supports
medical research. Henry Wellcome, who founded the Wellcome
pharmaceutical company (now Glaxco), thought that the
history of the health sciences was very important for
physicans and scientists to appreciate and pursue. The
Wellcome Library is one of the formost world centers
for research in the history of medicine.
History
of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links
An excellent site with links to search aids for archival material as
well as to published and online sources.
Professional Associations
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