Biographical Dictionaries: The Western World
- Beckford, Geraldine Rhodes, Biographical Dictionary of American Physicians of African Ancestry, 1800–1920, Cherry Hill, NJ: Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers, Inc., 2011.
- Biographical Dictionary of Medical Practitioners in Hong Kong, 1841–1941 (includes Western and Chinese practitioners)
- Bullough, Vern L., American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary, New York: Garland, 2000.
- Bynum, W.F., and Bynum, Helen, Dictionary of Medical Biography, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006.
- Dupont, Michel, Dictionnaire historique des médecins dans et hors de la médecine, Paris: Larousse Bordas, 1999.
- Fox, Daniel M., et al., Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary, New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1990.
- Lee, H.S.J., The Medical Millennium: 1000 Pioneers Who Have Contributed to the Development of Medicine over the Last 1000 Years, New York: Pantheon Publishing Group, 2000.
- Lindeboom, Dutch Medical Biography: A Biographical Dictionary of Dutch Physicians and Surgeons, 1475–1975, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984.
- O’Connor, W.J., British Physiologists, 1885–1914: A Biographical Dictionary, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991.
- Ogilvie, Marilyn, Harvey, Joy, and Rossiter, Margaret, The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century, New York: Routledge, 2000.
- Scrivener, Laurie and Barnes, Suzanne J., A Biographical Dictionary of Women Healers: Midwives, Nurses, and Physicians, Westport, Conn.: Oryx Press, 2002.
- Who Named It? A Biographical Dictionary of Medical Eponyms (each entry includes a description and bibliography)
Additional Online Secondary Sources: Canada
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography (from Library & Archives Canada)
- History of Medicine to 1950 (from The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- This is Public Health: A Canadian History (e-textbook published by the Canadian Public Health Association in 2010)
Digital Collections: General
- A Guide to History of Medicine Resources: Image Collections, Podcasts, Videos, and More (from the American Association of College & Research Libraries)
- Global Project on the History of Leprosy (lists of leprosaria, research institutes, archives, timeline, and other information)
- International Society for the History of Pharmacy Oral Presentation Database (presentations date from the early 2000s–present)
- The Virtual Laboratory: Essays and Resources on Experimentalization in the Life Sciences, Art, and Technlogy (includes essays and resources on experiments, technology, objects, sites, people, and concepts, a picture archive, and library)
- UCLA Library Digital Collections (themed collection of images, including manuscripts, photographs, maps, and ephemera)