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Freud Museum

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Exhibit
  • Images
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Museum
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.freud.org.uk/

Author: 
Freud Museum - London
Excerpt: 

The Freud Museum, at 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, was the home of Sigmund Freud and his family when they escaped Nazi annexation of Austria in 1938. It remained the family home until Anna Freud, the youngest daughter, died in 1982. The centrepiece of the museum is Freud's library and study, preserved just as it was during his lifetime.
It contains Freud's remarkable collection of antiquities: Egyptian; Greek; Roman and Oriental. Almost two thousand items fill cabinets and are ranged on every surface. There are rows of ancient figures on the desk where Freud wrote until the early hours of the morning. The walls are lined with shelves containing Freud's large library of reference books.

Annotation: 

The Freud Museum of London's central function is to celebrate the life and work of Sigmund and Anna Freud. The museum organizes research programs and publications, the details of which can be found on this site. It also has an education service that organizes seminars, conferences and special visits to the museum. The site provides information about the archives and other collections of the museum, the photograph library and a chronology. Essays and on line exhibits feature Anna Freud, Freud in England, the Interpretation of Dreams, and Ideas in Psychoanalysis. As the museum is privately funded and strapped for cash, the navigation and graphics for this site are fairly simple though useable.

Discovery of Insulin- A Canadian medical miracle of the 20th Century

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Images
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Professional Association
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.discoveryofinsulin.com/

Author: 
discoveryofinsulin.com
Excerpt: 

The role of this website is to preserve and document the history of one of the most important medical discoveries of our time. By promoting the history of the discovery of insulin we hope to increase awareness of the need to follow a diabetes avoidance lifestyle and to promote the need for further research.

Annotation: 

This website is dedicated to the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes by a team of Canadian scientists in the early twentieth century. The site doubles as both a description of the historical events and a publicity piece for diabetes awareness. The site contains biographies of the four scientists that collaborated on the project, transcripts of their Nobel speeches, and a description of the experiments that led to the discovery. The site offers a few links and images as well.

Voices from the Past, Visions for the Future - 100 Years of Nursing 1886-1996

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Primary Source
  • Professional Association
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.ana.org/centenn/index.htm

Author: 
American Nurses Association
Excerpt: 

The American Nurses Association, composed of professional nurses dedicated to the promotion of health and the care of the sick, has served as the forum in which the nation's critical health issues have been discussed throughout the last century.

Annotation: 

This centennial exhibit focuses on the primary reason for all of ANA's concern and activities, the fulfillment of nursing's social responsibility to provide health care to people. The site is a selection of nurses' quotes and summarized narratives that depict ANA's involvement with professional nurses and their patients throughout a century of care-giving. The site includes a chronology of events in nursing history from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s. The timeline is largely drawn from an institutional perspective. Quotes from nurses are interspersed within the chronological narrative.

Pre-History of Cognitive Science

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.rc.umd.edu/cstahmer/cogsci/

Author: 
Carl Stahmer - University of California Santa Barbara
Excerpt: 

Welcome to the Pre-History of Cognitive Science Web--an annoted bibliography of models of human cognition from the Seventeenth through Nineteenth centuries. The bibliography is compiled and maintained by Carl Stahmer, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as part of a larger dissertation project. The list of authors represented and forthcoming is the result of ongoing research into early models of cognition, with a particular emphasis on those thinkers who sought to understand the relationship between the material world, our physical bodies, and abstract thought. Philosophies of mind that do not contain some reflection on or disscusion of the materiality of thought are not represented.

Annotation: 

This site provides an annotated bibliography of models of human cognition from the Seventeenth through Nineteenth centuries, that includes a brief chronology and a bibliography. The site focuses on the theories of four men: George Berkeley, Robert Burton, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke while others may be included as the site grows. Each theory is described in some depth with cross-references to the other theories, a useful comparative tool. This site is a spin-off of a Ph.D. dissertation, "Romanticism and Hypertextuality."

History of Rehabilitation

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Images
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.coe.missouri.edu/%7Ercep7/orient/history/history.htm

Author: 
Public Rehabilitation Program - University of Missouri-Columbia
Annotation: 

This site discusses some of the ways people have thought about and treated persons with disabilities through history. The site is composed of thirteen brief chapters with images, recipes for curing disability, and photographs. Subjects addressed include attitudes toward individuals with disabilities, medical treatment and legislation. The final page provides an update on the the system of rehabilitation services for Americans with disabilities in 2000.

Epidemic - The world of Infectious Diseases

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Images
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Museum
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/

Author: 
American Museum of Natural History
Excerpt: 

This exhibition, on view from February 27 to September 6, 1999, tells stories about infectious disease. Some are personal and others scientific. But what they have in common are human disasters of shocking proportions. Our goal is to explain how a complex mix of ecology, evolution, and culture produce conditions in which disease-causing microbes—microscopic organisms that live in our environment—can thrive.

Annotation: 

This site, related to the American Museum of Natural History's 1999 exhibit on Infectious Disease, contains a number of links to sites about infectious disease, a glossary of related terms, and several interactive, educational tolls for children.

MendelWeb

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Biographical
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Personal
  • Primary Source
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.mendelweb.org/

Author: 
Roger Blumberg - Brown University
Excerpt: 

MendelWeb is an educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science. Constructed around Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper "Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden" and a revised version of the English translation by C.T. Druery and William Bateson, "Experiments in Plant Hybridization", MendelWeb is offered as a public sourcebook and collaborative environment compatible with a variety of guided and independent studies. For some background and an early description of the project, you may want to read MendelWeb: An electronic science/math/history resource for the WWW, a short paper prepared for the 2nd International World Wide Web Conference.

Annotation: 

This project, constructed as an electronic textbook, uses Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper "Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden" as a platform to examine the theory and practice of science from a historical perspective. The site includes text of the original paper, a second version of the paper which can be annotated by readers, essays generated by the project, and additional resources and tools for Mendel research.

Islamic Medicine and Science

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Library/Archive
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.iiim.org/iiimim.html

Author: 
International Institute of Islamic Medicine
Excerpt: 

This is a brief "SYNOPSIS" of the History of Islamic Medicine. We are in the process of putting an in depth study of the "History of Islamic Medicine" on this page which will include biographies of some of the most prominent Islamic Physicians in history. Please keep a look out for this in the future. In the interim if you are interested email to:"hnagamia@pol.net

Annotation: 

Part of the International Institute of Islamic Medicine, this page provides an introductory account of the development of medical practices in the Islamic world.

History of Chemistry

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Contemporary (Post-WWII)
  • Links
  • Medicine/Behavioral Science
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Professional Association
  • Secondary Source
URL: 

http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/

Author: 
Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Chemistry
Excerpt: 

The History of Chemistry
1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute

Annotation: 

This site contains papers written by advanced high school students who discuss the research and contributions of 25 chemists. The papers are informative and well written, and represent a variety of narative styles. These projects can serve as models for other young students and their teachers.

Mathmeticians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:19.
  • Biographical
  • Computers/Information Technology
  • Early Modern (15th-18th Century)
  • Mathematics
  • Modern (18th-20th Century)
  • Secondary Source
  • University
URL: 

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html

Author: 
David Wilkins, Trinity College, Dublin
Excerpt: 

Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).

The ordering of the mathematicians and scientists below is approximately chronological. A separate index is provided which lists these people in alphabetical order.

Annotation: 

This site is an online adaptation of the fourth edition of W. W. Rouse Ball's A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, published in 1908.
The site lists chronologically or alphabetically more than 80 mathematicians from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. These entries include some biographical information as well as descriptions of important contributions to the science. Many of the entries are quite long and filled with discussions of mathematical operations and theories, so the site may not be as useful to someone who is not well-versed in this field. However, the site is a great resource for tying together contemporaries, and for finding links between the lives and work of various mathematicians. Since the source of the information is old (1908), the text itself could be viewed as a primary source as well, showing the early twentieth-century attitude toward math and science. The site is entirely text except for a limited number of images that are entirely formulas and proofs.

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