Bibliographies in the History of Medicine & History of Health Care By Theme

Bibliographies in the History of Medicine & History of Health Care

• General History of Medicine

  Print 

  • Corsia, Pietro, and Weindling, Paul,Information Sources in the History of Science and Medicine, London: Butterworth Scientific, 1983.
  • Miller, Genevieve,Bibliography of the History of Medicine of the United States and Canada, 1939–1960, 2^nd ed, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1964.
  • Morton, L.T., and Norman, Jeremy M.,Morton’s Medical Bibliography: An Annotated Checklist of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine, 5^th ed., Aldershot: Scholar’s Press, 1991.
  • Pengelly, Eric T., and Pengelly, Daphne M.,A Traveler’s Guide to the History of Biology and Medicine, Davis, Calif.: Trevor Hill Press, 1986.

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  Online 

  • Medical Humanities Dissertations (bibliography of dissertations from the University of Pittsburgh; dissertations date from June 2001–present)
  • Oxford Bibliographies (includes bibliographies on history of medicine, science and medicine, military medicine, medical anthropology, contemporary philosophy of medicine, evidence-based medicine, alchemy, women in medicine, public health, and much, much more; browse by subject or search)

• Canada

  Print 

  • Goulet, Denis, and Paradis, André,Trois siècles d’histoire médicale au Québec: Chronologie des institutions et des pratiques (1639–1939), Montréal: VLB Editeur, 1992.
  • Hunter, Isabel, and Wotherspoon, Shelagh,A Bibliography of Health Care in Newfoundland, St John’s: Faculty of Medicine Memorial University, 1986.
  • Roland, Charles G.,Secondary Sources in the History of Canadian Medicine: A Bibliography, 2 vols, Vol. 1 Toronto: Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1984; Vol 2, eds. J. Bernier and C.G. Roland, Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000.
  • Roland, Charles G., and Potter, Paul,An Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Medical Periodicals, Toronto: Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1979.

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  Online

  • Bibliography of Canadian Health Science Periodicals, 1826–1980
  • Bibliography of Canadian Hospitals and Schools of Nursing (also includes histories of university faculties of health science)
  • Histoire de la santé et de la médecine au Québec (History of Health and Medicine in Quebec: series of 13 thematic bibliographies of mostly French-language works)
  • McGill University Medical Faculty MD and MDCM Graduates and Their Theses, 1833–1877
  • Virtual Reference Shelf (McMaster University Health Science Library’s collection of online reference e-books, databases, and websites)

Specialized Bibliographies in the History of Medicine & History of Health Care

• Bibliographies: France

  • Bibliographie des livres d’histoire de la médecine écrits par les membres de la Société française de l’Histoire de la Médecine (Bibliography of history of medicine books written by members of the French Society for the History of Medicine)
  • Wohnlich-Despaigne, Isabelle, Les historiens fançais de la médecine au XIXe siècle et leur bibliographie, Paris: Vrin, 1987

• Bibliographies: Renaissance & Enlightenment Medicine

  • Base DIONIS: Base de données photographiques sur les livres médicaux du XVIe au XVIIIe  siècle  (List of Western medical books from the 16^th to the 18^th century)
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Medicine in Renaissance and Reformation Europe (annotated bibliography of introductory works)
  • Oxford Bibliographies: The Scientific Revolution (annotated bibliography of introductory works)

• Bibliographies: History of Psychiatry

  • Bibliographie: Histoire de la psychiatrie: Principaux auteurs contemporains et référence essentielles (Bibliography of seminal Western works in the history of psychiatry)
  • Resources on the History of Psychiatry (thematically organized annotated bibliography)
  • Psychiatry, Photography, and Lobotomy: A Bibliography (bibliography of introductory works, mostly English-language)

• Bibliographies: Ancient & Classical Medicine

  • A Bibliography of Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine  (extensive bibliography of English and non-English language sources)
  • Ancient Medicine: Bibliography (sources on Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome)
  • Ancient World: Open Bibliographies  (links to bibliographies in Greek and Roman medicine)
  • Bibliography of Ancient Hebrew Medicine  (article in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association)
  • Greek and Roman Medicine: Bibliographical Resources (includes bibliographies of bibliographical aids, books, essays, articles, and book reviews)
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Ancient Medicine (Ancient Greece and Rome)

• Bibliographies: Arabic/Islamic Medicine

  • Disability and Deafness in the Middle East (partially annotated bibliography comprising material with technical, cultural, and historical relevance to child and adult impairments, disabilities, mental disorders special needs, social and educational responses and rehabilitation; from the Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information & Exchange)
  • Islamic Culture and the Medical Artsan (exhibition accompaniment material, including bibliographies and a visual catalogue, from the US National Library of Medicine)
  • Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine  (bio-bibliographies, a glossary, and image catalogue from the US National Library of Medicine)
  • Bibliography of The Oxford History of Islam (select annotated bibliography of the 1999 book by John L. Esposito)

• Bibliographies: Ayurvedic/Indian Medicine

  • A Selected Ayurveda Bibliography (includes academic and popular sources)
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Indian Medicine (annotated bibliography of introductory works; for more please see the Hinduism and Buddhism subject guides)

• Bibliographies: Chinese Medicine

  • Bibliography of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 19^th and 20^th century (introductory works from the 2000s–present)
  • Bibliography of the History of Chinese Science and Medicine Sources in Western Languages (annotated thematically organized bibliography covering science and medicine in traditional and modern China)
  • Chinese Astronomy and Astrology (partially annotated bibliography of ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology)
  • Needham Research Institute for the Study of the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (Cambridge, England) (includes catalogues of monographs, serials, archives, off-prints, and photographs, as well as bibliography of the institute’s publications and newsletters)

  • Oxford Bibliographies: Traditional Chinese Medicine (annotated bibliography of introductory works)
  • Resources for the Study of Chinese Medicine (thematically organized bibliography of books and journals)

  • The History of Western Medicine in China Resources Portal (links to archive and library guides, database of hospitals and medical institutions, hospital and medical school records, general reports and guides, periodicals, digitized photograph and image collections, bibliographies, selected electronic texts, and links to contextual and cultural content)

• Bibliographies: Americas, the New World & Aboriginal

  • Annotated Bibliography of Aboriginal Women’s Health and Healing Research (thematically organized and annotated)
  • Australian Medical Pioneers Index (biographical database of colonial doctors to 1875; includes bibliographies, an image gallery, and links to further resources)
  • African-American Bibliography: Science, Medicine, and Allied Fields (partially annotated selection of books, articles, patents, and other special materials)
  • Black History Month, A Medical Perspective: Bibliography (selected bibliography and links to other resources)
  • Black Nurses in History: A Bibliography and Guide to Web Resources (Rowan University’s libguide which including bibliographies, biographies, and links to further resources)
  • Bibliography of Secondary Works in the History of American Medicine and Related Fields (extensive and partially annotated)
  • Oxford Bibliographies: History of Health and Disease in Modern Latin America (annotated bibliography of introductory works)
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Indigenous Populations of North America, Australasia, and Circumpolar North – Public Health (annotated bibliography of introductory works)
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Public Health and Indigenous Peoples (annotated bibliography of introductory works)
  • Histoire de la Santé et de la Médecine au Québec: Chez les Amérindiens (bibliography of mostly French-language works on Aboriginal medicine in present-day Quebec)

• Bibliographies: Africa

  • Disease and Medicine in African History: A Bibliographical Essay (McMaster students: access this essay for free through JSTOR)
  • Oxford Bibliographies: Health, Medicine, and the Study of Africa (annotated bibliography of introductory works)
  • Science, Technology, and Medicine in Colonial Africa: A Selected Bibliography (select bibliography)