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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies and satisfy your widest ambition. - Sir William Osler
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The Sick Rose
A beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume brings together detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the world's rarest medical books to create a profoundly human reminder of mankind's struggle with disease. Incorporating historic maps, pioneering charts and contemporary case notes, Richard Barnett’s evocative overview reveals the fears and obsessions of an era gripped by epidemics.
History, or Just Horror?
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Museo Galileo
The Museo Galileo is one of the foremost international institutions in the History of Science, combining a noted museum of scientific instruments and an institute dedicated to the research, documentation and dissemination of the history of science in the broadest senses.
Wellcome Library
Through its collections and services, the Wellcome Library provides insight and information to anyone seeking to understand medicine and its role in society, past and present. More than 30 000 readers visited us last year, including historians, academics, students, health professionals and consumers, journalists, artists and members of the general public.
Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation
We share the stories of women in medicine
American Association for the History of Medicine
The AAHM is North America's oldest continuously functioning scholarly organization devoted to the study of all aspects of the history of the health professions, disease, public health, and related subjects.
Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences
This Association is established exclusively for educational purposes to serve the professional interests of librarians, archivists, and other specialists actively engaged in the librarianship of the history of the health sciences by promoting the exchange of information and by improving standards of service.
Asian Society for the History of Medicine
The Asian Society for the History of Medicine (ASHM) was founded in July of 2001, at a gathering at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto), which brought together medical historians from numerous Asian countries.
Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
This is a learned Society whose terms of reference include the sharing of all aspects of the history of health - including the professions of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacology and health themes within history itself.
Australian Medical Pioneers Index
Welcome to the Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI), a database of over 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s through to 1875. The site covers Australian medical history, with a database of medical pioneers and educational background material.
History of Dermatology
The French Society for the History of Dermatology (SFHD), established in 1989, is linked with the History of Dermatology Society and the European Society for the History of Dermatology and Venereology. Their goals are : Encourage works and publications on the history of dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases Organize scientific meetings in this field, promote teaching Protect and value the dermatologic patrimony worldwide
History of Dermatology Society
The History of Dermatology Society was founded June 23, 1973 at the Essex House, New York by Lawrence C. Parish, Gerald N. Wachs, Saul Blau, Samuel B. Frank, Leon Goldman, and Margaret Ann Storkan to promote an understanding of the development of the specialty of dermatology. The Society holds annual meetings at the time of the American Academy of Dermatology and an extraordinary session during the International Congress of Dermatology.
International Institute of Islamic Medicine
IM is a project of IMANA dedicated to research and promotion of Islamic Medicine, its rich history, its impact on modern medicine and its applications in contemporary times. Formed by the action of IMANA Executive Council in February of 1993 IIIM now functions under the direction and able leadership of eminent Muslim Physicians who have served as Presidents of IMANA and have dedicated themselves to this task.
International Society for the History of Medicine
The International Society for the History of Medicine (ISHM) was founded in Paris in 1921. The purpose of the Society is to assist and support the historical study of all questions relating to the medical and biomedical sciences and, more generally, to all branches of the healing arts. French and English are its two official languages.
International Society for the History of the Neurosciences
The International Society for the History of the Neurosciences mission is to improve communication between individuals and groups interested in the history of neuroscience.
Medical Museums Association
The Medical Museums Association was created to promote long term contacts among individuals, institutions, and organizations involved in collecting historical artifacts and objects of interest to the health sciences.
Society for the Social History of Medicine
Welcome to the webpage of the Society for the Social History of Medicine.
Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science
The organizers of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science held the first conference in 1999. SAHMS continues Prof. L. Margaret Barnett's (University of Southern Mississippi) original mission to promote awareness at colleges and universities in the South of the importance and usefulness of the history of medicine and science.
The Osler Club of London
The Osler Club of London was founded in 1928 (the year of Lady Osler's death) to encourage the study of the history of medicine, and to keep fresh the memory of Sir William Osler (born July 12th, 1849; died December 29th, 1919). The members of the Club, either medical or those engaged in some activity related to medicine, are devoted to the humanistic approach to medicine, as exemplified in the life and works of Sir William Osler.
Health Sciences Library System
History of Medicine includes more than 10,000 secondary sources in the historical aspects of health professions, medical education and research, military medicine and ethics, diseases, development of drugs and therapies, hospital care, epidemiology, substance abuse, and medical care and policy.
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