Medicine/Behavioral Science

The History & Special Collections division of UCLA's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library uses this site to distribute information about library projects, collections, and resources. The site offers several online exhibits on topics including medicinal spices, bloodletting, Charles Darwin, and others. The Library houses many special collections, and the contents of these are described in some detail, but they are not searchable. The site also provides links to other online resources such as the National Library of Medicine and the Surgeon-General's Office's online catalogs.

Part of the University of Manitoba's History of Medicine program, this site provides a brief overview of the history of fatalities associated with childbearing.

Great place to begin research about the history of Chinese medicine. It includes a directory of scholars around the world who study the history, anthropology, or sociology of Chinese medicine, with contact information, as well as a listing of related libraries and institutions, bibliographies and syllabi, and links to online resources.

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.

This text only, one-page site is merely a list of ten women (some born in the nineteenth century and some born in the twentieth century) in the history of psychology. Each figure has at least one link to another site which contains information about her life and work. There are no images or biographical material on this site, however; just links.

The Karolinska Institute's History of Biomedicine web site is a massive list of links grouped according to period, region and field. Researchers will find multiple links to texts, essays and exhibits in: History of Diseases, General Museums, Libraries & Special Collections, Indigenous Cultures, Mesopotamian Medicine, Ancient Egyptian Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Indian Medicine, Classical Islamic Biomedicine, and in Western Biomedicine for the Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern Periods. Researchers can also learn more about the Karolinska Instutute and Library and will find links to other helpful resources in the history of medicine.

This text only, one-page site provides a helpful compendium of links to Web materials on prominent women in the history of medicine, nursing and related fields. The site includes women from as early as the eleventh century, and there are over 60 entries. Several of the most famous women, such as Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton have a half-dozen or more sites listed. At the bottom of the page are a few links to other sites on women in the history of health and medicine. There are no images or biographical material on this site, just links.

This site promotes the use of case studies in the teaching of science, something that the authors claim is not yet common. While the site is not particularly historically oriented, some of the case studies they present for use in a classroom are drawn from the history of science, technology and medicine. For instance, there is a short case study of an appearance of "childbed fever" in the nineteenth century and how doctors discovered and understood the disease. All of these case studies are accesible; intended for a junior high, high school or college audience. Concentrating on teaching contemporary scientific fields to students, this site also contains some links to other case study sites and general sites that may focus on the history of science.

The United States National Library of Medicine is located in Bethesda at the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health. This site lists about 20 exhibits, past and present, that have been displayed at the library and/or have online components. Many of these exhibits are outstanding, providing both scholars in the history of medicine and the general public interested in medical history with an array of images and texts relating to topics such as the study of stress, medieval Islamic medical books, and Frankenstein. The site also has links to other sites on the history of medicine at the NIH, and a list of public (offline) seminars in the history of medicine.

This site serves as the home page for both the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Manchester. Most of the site's content relates to the physical center and its people and students. There are faculty and student lists, event listings, programs and courses, as well as links to the libraries of the University of Manchester and the five museums having to do with science and technology near the university. Web visitors interested in the history of science and technology may find the online projects on the site useful: one is a catalog of historical scientific objects held by the university.