Resource Guides and Starting Points
- History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Part of the WWW Virtual Library project, this site lists organizations, institutions, and other
Internet resources including many on medicine and health, as well as other sciences.
- Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua
- A resource for the study of Greco-Roman medicine and medical thought from Mycenaean times
until the fall of the Roman Empire.
- History of Biomedicine
- Guide to Internet resources on the history of medicine published by the Karolinska Institute.
- MedWeb: History of Medicine, All Sites
- Alphabetical "laundry list" of dozens of sites relating to the history of medicine, including societies, university
departments and institutes, publications, etc.
Individual Sites of Interest
- American Association for the History of Medicine
- Provides a membership directory, list of publications, meetings, etc.
- Archaic Medical Terms
- Do you have writer's cramp or Scrivener's Palsy? An A-Z listing of archaic medical terms with modern definitions. Site was created to help people doing
genealogical research interpret terms on old medical records.
- Biotechnology History:
- Biotechnology Chronicles: history, profiles of biotech pioneers, timelines, from the Access Excellence site hosted by Genentech.
- The Biotech Timeline is a table listing historical events in Biotechnology, hosted by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine
- Full-text of this journal is available to UCSD Internet accounts from 1996 - present.
- Catalog of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries
- Collection of 631 detailed biographies of scientists of the 16th and 17th centuries. Searchable on 20 different fields, from obvious
choices like name to more obscure details like patronage and scientific societies.
- History of Medicine Division (NLM)
- Information from the National Library of Medicine's History of Medicine Division, including
information about the HISTLINE database, now searchable for free via the Internet Grateful Med service.
- History of Science Society and Philosophy of Science Association (HSS/PSA) Directory
- Searchable directory of members in these societies.
- H-Sci-Med-Tech
- Web site for the e-mail discussion group of the same name. The Web site gives instructions for
joining the discussion group, and provides a searchable archive of past discussions. Useful for locating others
doing research on particular topics.
- Internet Classics Archive
- Select Browse to view full-text works of many classical authors, including Hippocrates.
- Islamic Medicine
- Extensive list of resources on historical and modern Islamic medicine.
- The Rontgen Centennial
- Celebration of the centennial of Rontgen's discovery of X-rays.
- 19th Century Scientific American Online
- Text from the first two volumes of Scientific American, 1845-1846.
Specialized Databases
- HISTLINE (via Internet Grateful Med)
- Bibliographic database from the National Library of Medicine covering history of medicine.
Note: at the NLM site, select HISTLINE.
- Historical Images (NLM)
- Includes a searchable databases of around 60,000 online images from the National Library of Medicine. Note:
some images are copyrighted.
- History of Science and Technology Database (restricted to UC Internet accounts)
- Covers articles, books, book reviews, conference proceedings and dissertations from 1976 to the present.
It is available in on the original command (telnet) mode of the MELVYL System:
1. Telnet to the MELVYL System. Your "terminal type" is VT100.
2. Type hsci at the MELVYL System prompt, and use regular MELVYL commands to search.
A brief
guide is available from UC Berkeley. Note: e-mailing results is not available via this route.
OR
2. Type use eureka at the MELVYL System prompt. When connected to Eureka, type choose hst. Follow the on-screen
instructions, or print out the brief guide
to the Eureka version.
- Index of Medieval Medical Images database (restricted to UC Internet accounts)
- Produced at UCLA, this database helps to locate medieval manuscript images (to the year 1500) with
medical components held in North American collections. The database is available on the Eureka system
which is searchable via the original command (telnet) mode of the MELVYL System. UCLA maintains
a Web site with a helpful guide to this
database - print it out to have the search commands handy.
To connect:
1. Telnet to the MELVYL System. Your "terminal type" is VT100.
2. Type eureka at the MELVYL System prompt.
3. Type set lim mat vim (Set Limit to Material type "Visual Materials") and then search the database
using the commands provided in the guide listed above.
Library Catalog Searches
Choosing one of the following links will send you to the UCSD Libraries' ROGER catalog and
run a search for books, whole journals, and other items on that subject. You can then use the
"Limit" option on the ROGER screen to narrow down the search by date, type of material,
library location, etc. These subject headings are presented here as good starting points.
Once in ROGER, you may want to try other search strategies to meet your particular needs.
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