Selected Resources for: History of Medicine
| Subject Librarian: Elaine Challacombe E-Mail: e-chal@tc.umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: the history of medical theory and practice from the earliest times to the recent past. |
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject IndexesAmerica: History and Life   This index provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This extensive database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, it also includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, books, dissertations and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Includes book reviews. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| History of Science and Technology HST: 1976-to date Includes articles about the history of science in all historical periods. Includes such subjects as magic, alchemy, etc., as well as more modern concepts of science. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 5 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Indexes articles, books, proceedings, reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| IndexCat Digital version of the printed "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Includes all five series of the publication. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MEDLINE (OVID) MEDLINE includes citations from the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 40 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database/article index that contains over 17 million references to journal articles. Coverage is from 1949 to the present. Over 5200 journals worldwide in over 37 languages are indexed. Covered are basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences, including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health and pre-clinical sciences as well as life sciences that are important to practitioners and researchers - biology, environmental science, biophysics, chemistry and plant & animal science. Ovid, a software company specializing in text retrieval applications and search interfaces, provides an easy to use interface for searching MEDLINE.[more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI) Covers the most of the sciences, including veterinary medicine and zoology. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 70% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. Impact factors for many journals is also available. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Bibliographies| Morton's medical bibliography : an annotated check-list of texts illustrating the history of medicine A listing of the "firsts" in medicine as they appeared in the literature. Includes name and subject indices. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| The history of surgery in the United States In two volumes. Volume 1 covers textbooks, monographs, and treatises; Volume 2 covers periodicals and pamphlets. Both volumes are heavily illustrated. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Women in medicine: a bibliography of the literature on women physicians Includes bibliographic entries as well a biographical information on women practitioners dating back to the beginning of recorded history; includes cites for medical education and graduate medical education. Educational topics include statistics, how women should acquire a medical education and educational trends. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs
| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources| Dictionary of Scientific Biography Provides authoritative, in-depth biographical articles on deceased scientists from classical antiquity to modern times. Each article includes bibliographies of works by and about the scientist who is the subject of the article. For biographical information on living scientists, check American Men and Women of Science or other sources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine Essays covering the definition of and the development of understanding of various aspects of health care over many centuries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Historical encyclopedia of nursing Includes biographical info in addition to such topics as public health nursing, African-American nurses, gender issues in nursing, ancient, medieval, and early renaissance nursing, war nursing, and midwifery. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| Medical Discoveries subtitle: Medical Breakthroughs and the People Who Developed Them [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Medical Discoveries : Who and When [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Medieval and Renaissance medicine [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Names of body parts in English, 1400-1550 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals
| Chicago Manual of Style Online (15th Edition) The standard work and most comprehensive of the style manuals. All chapters are written for the electronic age, with advice on how to prepare and edit manuscripts online, handle copyright and permissions issues raised by new technologies, use the latest methods of preparing mathematical copy, and cite electronic and online sources. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Library Information
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