Asides
Science Museum’s History of Medicine website
Virtual patients, wicked-cool interactive timelines, vintage artificial eyes, and more! The Science Museum (UK) has launched an extraordinary website intended for undergraduate students and educators, Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine
WHO Global Health Histories Seminar Series for 2010
From tobacco to plague, from climate change to mental health, the WHO Global Health Histories seminar series has 9 sessions lined up for 2010, kicking off 17 February with George Bishop and Cathy Roth on SARS
University of Virginia On-line Exhibitions
“Wash Germs Away” – the history of hand washing and a nice variety of other online exhibits from the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia
Medical History Podcasts from Oxford Brookes University
“Moments in Medicine” hits Episode 10 mark: a lively series of history of medicine podcasts from Oxford Brookes University’s Centre for Health, Medicine and Society
Iconography of Contagion CDC Exhibition of Health Posters
Download the breathtaking catalogue of the current exhibition at the CDC’s Global Health Odyssey Museum, “An Iconography of Contagion: 20th-Century Health Posters”, and check out upcoming exhibitions and on-line public health games for schoolkids while you’re at it
Revista de Historia de la Medicina y Epistemología Médica
Nueva publicación on-line en historia e humanidades médicas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Revista de la Historia de la Medicina y Epistemología Médica
Nova Scotia Nursing History website
An absorbing and rich (including oral history and pristine photographs) repository on Nursing Education in Nova Scotia, from 1890s to the present, by Christine Lovelace, Stephanie Walker, Amy Nickerson and Ewa Piorko, in assocation with Mount Saint Vincent University Archives
Reich blog on history of presidential health care reform efforts
Check out former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s realpolitik blog-take on the history of presidential health care reform in the US, and what it says about Obama’s approach and chances
Special Issue on the Australian Asylum
Peruse the new special issue of Health and History on the Australian asylum
Wax Model Video – Exquisite Bodies Exhibit at Wellcome
A video on how to make an anatomical wax model with artist, Eleanor Crook, part of the new Wellcome Museum exhibit, Exquisite Bodies, on the many uses of anatomical models in the 19th c.
Categories
Cultures of Health Collections
Related Sites
- Canada Research Chair in History of International Health
- Casa Oswaldo Cruz
- Health Heritage Research Services
- History of Medicine Bookmarks
- History of Medicine Timeline
- Housewife’s Rich Cabinet
- Making Visible Embryos Exhibition
- Médicament : Objet Social (MÉOS)
- Nursing History Research Unit
- Profiles in Science
- The Quack Doctor
- University College London Wellcome Trust Centre for History of Medicine
Libraries and Collections
Journals
- Asclepio
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine
- Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médicine
- Dynamis – Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandum
- Health and History
- História, Ciencia, Saúde: Manguinhos
- Historia Medicinae
- Isis
- Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
- Medical History
- Nursing History Review
- Salud Colectiva
- Social History of Medicine
- Sudhoffs Archiv
Organizations and Associations
- American Association for the History of Medicine
- American Association for the History of Nursing
- Canadian Society for the History of Medicine
- Cheiron
- European Association for the History of Medicine
- H-Sci-Med-Tech
- History of Medicine Portal – UCL
- History of Science Society
- International Society for the History of Medicine
- International Society for the History of Pharmacy
- Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
- Society for the Social History of Medicine
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