Medicine/Behavioral Science

History of Biomedicine
This site is a collection of resources on the history of biomedicine.
URL: www.mic.ki.se/History.html [edit]
Brief History of the Basal Ganglia
This University of Edinburgh presents a short site on the history of basal ganglia.
URL: www.anc.ed.ac.uk/ [edit]
Milestones in Neuroscience Research
This site is a brief chronology on milestones in neuroscience research.
URL: faculty.washington.edu/chudler/hist.html [edit]
Univeristy of Michigan Historical Center for the Health Sciences
We are a clearinghouse of information about primary source material which documents the history of the health sciences.
URL: www.med.umich.edu/HCHS/ [edit]

On January 1, 1934, The Franklin Institute Science Museum opened to the public. The Museum's hands-on approach to science and technology, combined with the Fels Planetarium, made the Institute a popular spot. As the end of the twentieth century drew near, major changes were beginning at the Institute. In May of 1990, The Mandell Center, Tuttleman Omniverse Theater (now known as the Tuttleman IMAX Theater), and Musser Theater opened, adding dramatically to the size and appeal of The Franklin Institute. The new exhibits, exciting Omnimax films, and interactive presentations continued the Institute's long tradition of making science and technology fun.
Today, more than one hundred and seventy five years after the Institute's founding, The Franklin Institute Science Museum continues to offer new and exciting access to science and technology in ways that would both amaze and delight Mister Benjamin Franklin.

This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks listed below. For more contextual information, for instance about the Islamic world, check out these web sites.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Internet Modern History Sourcebook

The Resource Centre is an international focus for research on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. It is open by appointment to students, academics and all those with a bona fide research interest. Please contact the Curator to make an appointment to use the Resource Centre.
The Centre has two main functions: to provide access to the collections stored at the Museum and to guide researchers to sources of information outside the Museum.

The mission of FASEB is to enhance the ability of biomedical and life scientists to improve, through their research, the health, well-being, and productivity of all people. FASEB is a coalition of independent Member Societies that serve the interests of biomedical and life scientists, particularly those related to public policy issues. FASEB facilitates coalition activities among Member Societies and disseminates information on biological research through scientific conferences and publications. FASEB also offers Member Societies headquarters facilities, and operational and logistic support.

The University of Exeter has an established and growing reputation for research and publications within the field of medical history and for the social study of contemporary medical and health-related activities. The recent formation of the Institute of Clinical Science has brought together and focused the impressive expertise which Exeter possesses in the clinical aspects of medicine, drawing clinical scientists on the different campus sites and improving links between colleagues in order to increase the base of expertise and to raise the funding prospects of such work within the University. Medical history and applied social study of medicine is an established strength at the University and has enabled the University to create a significant reputation in the field. Exeter has also taken a lead in areas such as complementary medicine.

International E-mail Directory of Historians of Pharmacy
A world-wide directory of researchers in the History of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Since 1940, between 8 million and 32 million Americans have died from magnesium deficiency, which causes cardiac disease, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac death, and suicide, among other causes of death. Currently, annual American deaths from magnesium deficiency are between 215,000 and 869,000.
By comparison, the deaths from the Hiroshima atom bomb were only 80,000 to 200,000, so magnesium deficiency is equivalent to the atomic bombings of several small American cities each year. For another comparison, all American war deaths in the history of the country total much less than 2,000,000, so magnesium deficiency is a much greater catastrophe than all American wars combined. Another comparison is Hitler's Holocaust, which claimed 6-10 million lives.

It is offered as a free service to the community of scholarly historians and theoreticians of psychology with the goal of promoting the rapid dissemination of new work in the field. Authors who wish to post papers to the archive should first consult the HTP Prints Policy Document.
HTP Prints is edited and administered by Christopher D. Green of the History & Theory of Psychology Program at York University (Toronto, Canada), and it is supported by the kind technical assistance of York University's Faculty of Arts Academic Technology Services.

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September 12-14, 2002, Madrid, Spain
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