Title | Annotation |
|---|---|
| "Bring back your party safe" : medicine and health on the Lewis and Clark expedition | |
| 150 Years of Anesthesia 1846-1996 | This site, produced by the Massachusetts General Hospital, examines the history of the first anesthesia, ether. Discovered as an aid to sedate patients in the middle of the nineteenth century, its use was heralded as a breakthrough which would lead to a new, better age of surgery. The 7 short essays on this site, written for a general audience, discuss the discovery of ether, the doctors involved, its use at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the subsequent history and future of anesthesiology. A few photographs and drawings of related materials are included. |
| 1895 Look At Nursing | |
| 19th Century Scientific American Online | Snippets from the first two volumes of Scientific American magazine. Very little information available and what is is of a frivolous nature. Not for research. Site has not been updates since 1997. |
| 4000 Years of Women in Science | |
| 4000 Years of Women in Science | This site compiles over 130 biographies of women scientists throughout the ages organized alphabetically, chronologically, and by discipline. A handful of images are also available, as is an extensive bibliography. Unfortunately most of the site has not been updated since 1999 and many of the off-site links are no longer valid. |
| A Brief History of Electrocardiography | |
| A Condensed History of Homeopathy | |
| A short history of the study of diabetes | This site, from the biotech company National Applied Science, is merely a one page timeline of diabetes history. It starts in 1500 B.C. with the first known remedies for the then unknown disease and ends in 1921 with the discovery of insulin. The timeline is written in plain, non-technical language. There are no accompanying illustrations or photographs. |
| A Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit | A Thin Blue Line: The History of the Pregnancy Test Kit, an online exhibit at the National Institutes of Health, explores the history of the pregnancy test kit from the laboratory to the digital age and invites women to share their personal stories through an online survey. In addition to the scientific background on the research that led to the development of the test, it also includes an historical timeline of pregnancy testing, as well as early advertisements for the test and portrayals of the test in television. |
| A.A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalitic Institute | |
| AAHPSSS Newsletter | |
| AAHPSSS Newsletter Australasian Association for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Science | |
| Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | |
| ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI | This is a simple and plain search page hosted by a number of Italian universities and institutes. The aim of the project is to furnish science historians and other scholars with an instrument to research the correspondence of Italian scientists during the period between the Italian Risorgimento (mid 19th century) and the present. The service permits the user to research the letters and correspondence of Edoardo Amaldi, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Emanuele Paterna's Enrico Persico, Bruno Touschek and Vito Volterra. The data bank now contains about 54,000 items. |
| Access Excellence | Access Excellence is an educational website aimed at teachers and younger students. The site contains recent news stories about scientific developements and health issues and offers suggestions and activities teachers can use in their classrooms. |
| Adler Museum of the History of Medicine | |
| Adler Museum of the History of Medicine University of the Witwatersrand & S. A Institute for Medical Research | |
| Adolf Basser Library | This site gives some brief information about the Australian Academy of Science and provides a description of manuscripts housed in the Academy's Basser Library. The site also contains an alphabetical index of the materials in the manuscript collection, which could be an important planning tool for researchers interested in taking a trip to the Library to do research with the papers first-hand. However, the actual manuscripts have not been made available online, so there is no historical information beyond the descriptions and index. |
| ADVENTURES WITH AN ICE PICK: a Brief History of the Lobotomy |
