The Medical Heritage Library is a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries. The collection resides at the Internet Archive.
Mission:
The MHL promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live.
Principal Contributors:
The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University
The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University
The New York Academy of Medicine
The Welch Medical Library, Library of the Institute of Medicine, and the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Content contributors:
Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine
University of Toronto Gerstein Science Information Centre
We are seeking new contributors. For more information about participation, please see Participation Levels.
Funding Support:
The MHL is pleased to acknowledge funding support from the following agencies and organizations:
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The National Endowment for the Humanities
Products:
Digitization is now underway at the New York Public Library, the National Library of Medicine and the medical libraries of Columbia, Harvard, and Yale. Digitized books are available as they are completed at the Internet Archive. Be sure to check back often as new content is added daily.
Scholarly Advisory Committee:
Janet Golden
Professor of History, Rutgers University
Jeremy Greene
Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Gregory Higby
Director, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, U. Wisc. Madison
Lori Jahnke
S. Gordon Castigliano CLIR Fellow, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Scott Podolsky
Assistant Professor of Social Medicine; Director of Center for the History of Medicine
Sally Romano
Resident, Yale University School of Medicine
Charles Rosenberg
Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
Jennifer Tucker
Associate Professor of History, Science in Society, and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Wesleyan University
William Turkel
Associate Professor of History, University of Western Ontario
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The Medical Heritage Library was initiated by the Open Knowledge Commons, which was awarded $1.5 million dollars in start-up funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to begin digitization at partner libraries.
Please contact us if you are interested in our work at:
medicalheritage@gmail.com
