The purpose of the section is to stimulate and support interest in the history of the health sciences among libraries and librarians.
Those with a research interest in the history of the health sciences will appreciate the expansive collection of links maintained here by the History of the Health Sciences Section of the Medical Library Association. Organized by topic they provide a gateway to an immense amount of information related to health and medicine.
The Association Archives seeks to document the development of the field of psychology in America, especially the role of the APA in that development. The Archives preserves and makes available the documents, papers, audio-visual materials, and artifacts of the Association and its affiliates that serve this purpose.
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In the will of Sir Henry Wellcome, he specifically mentioned the study of the history of medicine as a topic to be fostered. The Wellcome Trust has since maintained this tradition through its support for research in the history of medicine.
Upon his death, Sir Henry Wellcome provided for The Wellcome Trust to maintain support for research in the history of medicine. Information here is largely related to the Wellcome Trust's mission of providing funding for scholarship, and publishing treatises on the history of medicine. The site also includes extensive information on the Trust's library holdings including an on-line catalogue. Useful introductory information about a number of topics within the history of medicine, can be found in dozens of digitized versions of exhibits with a particular emphasis on British and British colonial medicine.
The AAHM is North America's oldest continuously functioning scholarly organization devoted to the study of all aspects of the history of the health professions, disease, public health, and related subjects. It is comprised of professional historians, practicing health professionals, librarians and archivists in the history of the health sciences, graduate students and students actively seeking professional degrees. Its annual meetings occur each spring and include, over a two and a half day period, a wealth of workshops, plenary sessions, and competitively peer-reviewed scholarly papers.
The AAHM is North America's oldest continuously functioning scholarly organization devoted to the study of all aspects of the history of the health professions, disease, public health, and related subjects. Their website provides information about upcoming conferences, archived issues of the AAHM Newsletter, subscription and submission information for the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and details about awards, grants, scholarships and other funding. The site also includes links to important history of medicine websites.
The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy is a non-profit national organization devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding of the place of pharmacy in history.
The mission of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy is to contribute to the understanding of the development of civilization by fostering the creation, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge concerning the history and related humanistic aspects of the pharmaceutical field.
Canada's Role in Fighting Tuberculosis was developed at the Saskatchewan Lung Association, and included input from the nine other provincial Lung Associations, as well as considerable input from the Canadian Lung Association office in Ottawa. Much of the site’s content was found in Dr. GJ Wherrett’s book "The Empty Beds", which is the most comprehensive story of TB in Canada, and the only remaining record of many events.
Great resource for those interested in learning about tuberculosis, particularly with regards to its impact on Canada. While the site includes general information about the disease, it also includes and interactive timeline about efforts to combat it in Canada, biographies of selected persons behind those efforts, and accounts and images of sanatoriums. The site also presents a glossary useful for younger students and resources for their teachers.
History provides current nurses with the same intellectual and political tools that determined nursing pioneers applied to shape nursing values and beliefs to the social context of their times. Nursing history is not an ornament to be displayed on anniversary days, nor does it consist of only happy stories to be recalled and retold on special occasions. Nursing history is a vivid testimony, meant to incite, instruct and inspire today's nurses as they bravely trod the winding path of a reinvented health care system.
To find out about these nursing pioneers and their efforts, link up with the American Association for the Nursing History.
Great site for those interested in researching the history of nursing. Site contains a primer for new students, as well as resources for more advanced study including several bibliographies, essays, and extensive listings of archives, nursing history centers, and related websites. Truly comprehensive and useful for serious research in this area.
An interdisciplinary organization, SHOT is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes, but also with the relations of technology to science, politics, social change, the arts and humanities, and economics.
This is the home page for the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), an American organization interested in studying technology in the past and its relationship to culture, politics, economics, art and society. The site has three subsections: one provides information about the organization, its membership and leadership, informing visitors how to sign up to become a member, and displaying updated details about prizes, awards and meetings. Two, covers the publications of the organization, specifically the SHOT newletter and booklet series as well as Technology and Culture, published by SHOT and the Johns Hopkins University Press. The latter is available on line only to subscribers. The last subsection, three, lists materials (mostly on the Web) of interest to historians of technology, such as syllabi from history of technology courses and the sites of other institutions dedicated to the history of technology.
CONECTA es un boletín electrónico de noticias sobre Historia de la Ciencia, la Medicina y la Tecnología que comenzó a funcionar en mayo de 1995 con el objetivo de distribuir noticias e informaciones de utilidad para los profesionales e investigadores de estas áreas de conocimiento, en principio del Estado Español, pero también de la comunidad Latinoamericana y con atención al entorno europeo.
This site is from the Spanish periodical CONECTA. CONECTA disseminates news about meetings, seminars, lectures and academic positions to the community of historians and teachers of science, technology and medicine in Spain and Latin America. The site has an online, accessible database of issues from the time of its inception. There is also a list of 22 predominantly Spanish-language Web sites on the history of science, technology and medicine and a link to a special project on the history of cinema.
