We’ve recently added a few new resources to our Tools for Digital Research page and wanted to take a minute to draw them to your attention. The Giant’s Shoulders: This is a monthly collation of author-submitted blog posts from other blogs …
Tag Archive: cross-disciplinary
Digital Connection: Historical Images from the NLM
The NLM, as well as being a valued partner in the MHL, has also created a great database of medical images, Images from the History of Medicine. The database features a variety of images, including postcards, broadsides, posters, public health …
Digital Highlight: Interdisciplinary Possibilities
One of the fascinating things about a collection like the Medical Heritage Library is how many interdisciplinary opportunities it offers. The history of medicine is an incredibly diverse field in and of itself — a quick glance down the list …
Recent Additions to the Collection
- Puerperal fever as a private pestilence
- The contagiousness of puerperal fever
- An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague : partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the College of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807
- A history of the disease usually called typhoid fever : as it has appeared in Georgetown and its vicinity, with some reflections as to its causes and nature
- Typhoid fever and its homoeopathic treatment
- A treatise on typhoid fever and its homoeopathic treatment
- Malaria : an essay on the production and propagation of this poison, and on the nature and localities of the places by which it is produced : with an enumeration of the diseases caused by it, and of the means of preventing or diminishing them, both at home and in the naval and military service
- Observations on some of the physical, chemical, physiological and pathological phenomena of malarial fever
- A practical treatise on venereal diseases, or, Critical and experimental researches on inoculation : applied to the study of these affections : with a therapeutical summary and special formulary
- Letters on syphilis : addressed to the chief editor of l'Union médicale
Recent articles in history of medicine
- "No Struggle, No Fight, No Court Battle": The 1948 Desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine
- "Spitting Is Dangerous, Indecent, and against the Law!" Legislating Health Behavior during the American Tuberculosis Crusade
- "They Increase in Beauty and Elegance": Transforming Cadavers and the Epistemology of Dissection in Early Nineteenth-Century American Medical Education
- A Living Life, A Living Death: Bessie Head’s Writing as a Survival Strategy
- A Radical Proposition: The Brief but Exceptional History of the Seattle School Clinic, 1914-21
- A Short History of Medical Genetics
- A and in Early Modern Discussions of the Passions: Stoicism, Christianity and Natural History
- Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
- Alysa Levene, Martin Powell, John Stewart and Becky Taylor, Cradle to Grave: Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales
- An Anatomy of Illness