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Selected Resources for: History of Medicine
Subject Librarian: Elaine Challacombe E-Mail: e-chal@umn.edu This subject covers: the history of medical theory and practice from the earliest times to the recent past. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
America: History and Life    This index provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present with over 2,000 journals including all key English-language historical journals.
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| 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.
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| IndexCat Digital version of the printed "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office. Includes all five series of the publication.
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| JSTOR Full text of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication. Note: It does NOT include the most recent 2 to 5 years.
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| OVID MEDLINE OVID, like PubMed, is an interface to search the MEDLINE database. It includes citations from the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.
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.
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| PubMed 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.
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| 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 over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| Encyclopedia of Medical History [ 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.
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General Reference Works
| ArchiveGrid ArchiveGrid is a tool for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives, libraries, and museums around the world.
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| Medical Discoveries subtitle:
Medical Breakthroughs and the People Who Developed Them
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| 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!] |
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts
| Early American Imprints Series I. Evans (1639-1800) Digital Edition Every book, pamphlet, serial, and other printed work of significance
published in America 1639 - 1800 with 36,000 items and 2. 4 million page images when complete. Based on Charles Evans, American Bibliography with additions from Roger Bristol's Supplement.
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Web Sites
| Images from the History of Medicine mages from the History of Medicine (IHM) provides access to nearly 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dated from the 15th to 21st century.
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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.).
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Style Manuals
| Chicago Manual of Style Online 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.
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Library Information
Primary Subject Location
Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine
Non-circulating rare and historical works in the health and biological sciences from 15th century to 1920.
Campus: East Bank, Minneapolis
Address: 568 Diehl Hall
Telephone: 626-6881
Main URL: http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/wangensteen
Reference URL: http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/wangensteen/research-help
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/DiehlH/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/wangensteen/hours
Secondary Subject Location(s)
Bio-Medical Library
Health sciences: allied health, dentistry, medicine, mortuary science, nursing, pharmacy, psychiatry and public health.
Campus: East Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: Diehl Hall, 505 Essex St. S.E.
Telephone: Reference: 612-626-3260; Circulation: 612-626-4045
Main URL: http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/biomed
Reference URL: http://hsl.lib.umn.edu/biomed/services/reference
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/DiehlH/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/biomed/hours
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