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History of Medicine:

Primary Sources:

• Audio Materials
• Books
• Collections, Papers, and Diaries
• Government Documents
• Journals and Magazines

Primary Sources:

Audio Materials

See also the resources in History: Audio Resources: General.

• British Library Sound Archive: Oral History: Florence Nightingale.

• DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments: Roadmap to the Project: Oral Histories

• Early History of the Eugenics Movement (DNA Files)

• From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond (History Department, University at Albany, State University of New York)
  Five-segment audio adaptation of the video trilogy on abortion.

• In Their Own Words: NIH REsearchers Recall the Ealy Years of AIDS (National Institute of Health)
  Some audio clips, some full transcripts only.

• Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: Audio (Special Collections, The Valley Library, Oregon State University)

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Primary Sources:

Books

• American Radicalism: Birth Control (Digital Sources Center, Michigan State University Libraries)
  Full text books by Margaret Sanger.

• Electronic Texts in the History of Medicine (Richard H. Siderits and Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University)
  Popular medical texts of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

• Galen. Selected Works. Translated with an introduction and notes by P.N. Singer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  ENGR&SCI STACKS B577 .G22 E5 1997

• Lemay, Helen Rodnite. Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's De Secretis Mulierum with Commentaries. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, c1992.
  Request from OFFSITE

• The On-line Books Page: Browsing Library of Congress Call Numbers: "R5" to "R692"
  Online books ranging from Hippocrates, Galen, to more current selections.

• Osteopathy (Digital Sources Center, Michigan State University Libraries)
  Scanned images of Osteopathic textbooks, ca. 1879-1921.

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Primary Sources:

Collections, Papers, and Diaries

• Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua (Episcopal Academy)
  Links to texts, essays, news and announcements, etc.

• The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Collection (Dave Gross)
  Hypertext and multimedia representations and descriptions of the use of cannabis and other drugs in the 19th and early 20th century. Includes works and biography of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, as well as other writings on the use of cannabis and other drugs.

• A History of Medicine [interactive computer file]. [Boston, MA]: FlagTower, 1996.
  ENGR&SCI CIRCDESK 610.9 H673
  2 CD-ROMS which present the history of medicine through overviews, interviews, pictures, etc. A manual is included.

• Image Archive of the American Eugenics Movement (DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  Reports, articles, charts, etc., dealing with eugenics.

• Industrial Hygiene Collection (Mellon Institute Library, Carngegie Mellon University)
  Housed at Carnegie Mellon's Mellon Institute Library, the collection includes a wide variety of materials on the environmental health issues of workers, such as: publications from the Air Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc., (1936-1940); the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America, Inc., (1941-1969); and the Industrial Health Foundation (1970-present). Materials also include journals, annual reports, information circulars, and bulletins from the Chemistry and Toxicology Series, Legal Series, Medical Series, Management Series, Nursing Series, Preventive Engineering Series, as well as Proceedings, etc.

• John Snow (Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UCLA)
  Works by and information about a major figure in the history of public health, epidemiology and anesthesiology.

• Margaret Sanger Papers Project (Department of History, New York University)
  Works of Margaret Sanger, links to other sites.

• Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe (University of Virginia)
  Narratives, medical consilia, governmental records, religious and spiritual writings and images documenting the arrival, impact and response to the problem of epidemic disease in Western Europe between 1348 and 1530.

• Profiles in Science (National Library of Medicine)
  Archival collections on prominent twentieth century biomedical scientists. The full text collections can be browsed or searched and include books, journal volumes, pamphlets, diaries, letters, manuscripts, photographs, audio tapes and other audiovisual materials.

• A Selection of Letters Written by Florence Nightingale (Kelly Brown, University of Kansas Medical Center)

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Primary Sources:

Government Documents

Documents produced by the United States government can be a great source of information since the Government produces reports and holds hearings on a wide variety of subjects. Below are just a few examples of the types of government documents that are relevant to the history of medicine. To find more, use the databases and indexes listed at History: Databases and Indexes: Government Documents. Be advised that many of the government documents that are in Hunt Library are not in the Libraries' online catalog, Cameo. If you need help locating government documents, ask for assistance at the Hunt Library reference desk.

• DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments: Roadmap to the Project: Declassified Documents
  Selection of declassified documents pertaining to the human radiation experiments Cold War story.

• Fishburne, Patricia M., Herbert I. Abelson, and Ira Cisin. National Survey on Drug Abuse, Main Findings, 1979. Rockville, Md.: National Institute on Drug Abuse, Office of Medical and Professional Affairs, 1980.
  HUNT REF-1/GOVDOC HE20.8202:Su7/979.

• United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. Smoking and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. DHEW Publication 79-50066. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.
  HUNT REF-1/GOVDOC HE20.7202:Sm7/979

• United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. Health Resources Administration. Health in America: 1776-1976. DHEW Pulication No. 76-616. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976.
  HUNT REF-1/GOVDOC HE20.6002:H34/3/776-976.

• United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Public Health Service. Health Services and Mental Health Administration. Marijuana and Health: A Report to the Congress from the Secretary, Department of Health, Education, And Welfare. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971.
  HUNT REF-1/GOVDOC HE20:2402:M33/3

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Primary Sources:

Journals and Magazines

Magazines and journals can be considered either primary or secondary sources, depending the way in which they are used. Ask your professor if you have questions about which they might be considered in the context of your paper. Some of the indexes and databases listed at History of Medicine: Databases and Indexes cover the magazines and journals listed below, as well as additional titles of interest.

• A.M.A. Archives of Industrial Health
  Print: v.11, 1955-v.21, 1960.
  MELLON BND-JOUR-3 RC963.A6
  Continues:
  A.M.A. Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Medicine
  Print: v .2,1950-v.10, 1954.
  MELLON BND-JOUR-3 RC963.A6

• American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal
  Print: v.19, 1958-v. 52, 1991.
  MELLON BND-JOUR-3 RC963.A5

• Archives of Environmental Health
  Print: v.1, 1960-v.30, 1975.
  MELLON BND-JOUR-3 RC963.A61

• British Journal of Industrial Medicine
  Print: v.2-30, 1945-73.
  MELLON BND-JOUR-3 RC963.B86

• The Child
  Print: v.8, 1943-v. 18, 1953.
  HUNT BND-JOUR-3
  Published by the Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor.

• JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
  Full text: 1998-present.
  Print: v.271, 1994-present.
  ENGR&SCI BND-JOUR
  v.1, 1883-PRESENT.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, FALK LIBRARY

• Journal of Anatomy (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Full text: Vol. 190, 1997-present.
  Carnegie Mellon users must register once, creating their own user ID and password.
  Print: v.50, 1916-v. 73, 1939.
  ENGR&SCI MICRO
  Continues:
  Journal of Anatomy and Physiology
  Print: v.1, 1867-v. 50, 1916.
  ENGR&SCI MICRO

• Mental Hygiene
  Print: v.1, 1917-56, 1972.
  HUNT BND-JOUR-3

• New England Journal of Medicine
  Print: v.327, 1992-present.
  ENGR&SCI BND-JOUR
  Print: v. 2, 1829/1830-v. 199, 1928.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, FALK LIBRARY-History of Medicine (Circ)-200 Scaife Hall
  Print: v.198, 1928-present.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, FALK LIBRARY-200 Scaife Hall
  Continues:
  The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
  Print: v. 2, 1829-v. 199, 1928.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, FALK LIBRARY History of Medicine (Circ)-200 Scaife Hall

• Physikalische und Medicinische Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin
  Print: v. 1, 1781-v.4, 1786.
  ENGR&SCI MICRO

• Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
  Print: v.1, 1904-41, 1939.
  ENGR&SCI MICRO
  Print: v.42, 1939-v. 213, 1996.
  MELLON BND-JOUR-2

• Public Health Reports: All Issues 2001-2004.
  Full text: 2001-2004.
  Note: Access is a trial and may end at any time.
  Print: v. 89, 1974-present.
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Continues:
  Health Service Reports
  Print: v. 87, 1972-v. 89, 1974
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Bound as Public Health Reports.
  Continues:
  HSMHA Health Reports
  Print: v. 87, 1972
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Continues:
  Public Health Reports
  Print: v. 13, 1890-v. 85, 1970 (incl).
  HUNT JOUR-3
  Continues:
  Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports
  Print: 1887-1895
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, HILLMAN LIBRARY, Microforms (Ground Floor) CIS US Exec MF T2706-2 to T2706-10
  Print: v. 2, 1887-v. 10, 1895.
  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, FALK LIBRARY - 200 Scaife Hall

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History

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History of Technology and Science: Primary Sources