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Background and Reference Sources

Electronic

• Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease Entries include the history and description of 161 diseases
• Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary Good source for medical terminology
• Oxford Reference Online Searches multiple reference books; good for definitions of terms and brief information on people; can search by specific subject areas.
• Xreferplus Multisource database; search by specific subsets, such as medicine or history.
• The Cambridge World History of Human Disease

Print

• Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine.Osler Ref WZ 13 C737 1993
• A Dictionary of the History of Medicine Osler Ref folio WZ 13 S443d 1999

More dictionaries, encyclopedia, and resources for background information can be found here.

Article Indexes and Databases

Medicine/history of medicine

• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (HSTM) Journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.
• JSTOR Full text database of over 500 scholarly journals in multiple disciplines. Here is a list of journals by subject category. Note that most recent issues of journals may not be included.
• LocatorPlus This is the catalogue of the National Library of Medicine in the United States, containing records of books, book chapters (individual essays) and audiovisual material.
• MEDLINE Premier database of journal articles on medicine, from 1966 on. Tip: Limit results to the "History of Medicine" subset by clicking on "More Limits"
  Articles published between 1950 and 1965 are contained in OLDMEDLINE.
• Sociological Abstracts. Indexes, in part, medicine from a sociological perspective, such as the journal "Social Science and Medicine."
• Web of Knowledge General academic database.

General History

• America: History and Life This contains references to journal articles, book reviews and some dissertations about Canadian and United States history from the earliest times. Its subject coverage is broad and includes medical topics. To search this you need to select "United States and Canadian History" in the drop down search options.
• Historical Abstracts This contains references to journal articles, book reviews and some dissertations about the history of all parts of the world from 1450, EXCLUDING Canada and the United States. Its subject coverage is broad and includes medical topics. To search this you need to select "World History excluding US and Canada" in the drop down search options.
• NOTE: You can search both "America: History and Life" and "Historical Abstracts" simultaneously by selecting "World History including US & Canada" from the drop down menu.

Primary Material

• Early Canadiana Online - History of Medicine Collection Digitized historical materials from Canada. History of medicine collection includes many early medical journals
• IndexCat (Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office) Index of works in medicine and allied fields written before 1950.
• Index Medicus, the print version of MEDLINE, produced from 1879-2004. Good for locating historical published mateiral
• JSTOR has many older issues of journals, can be useful for finding historical journal articles
• PubMed Central has digitised some nineteenth and twentieth century medical journals
• Osler Library Archives - searchable database Nearly 200 collections of papers by or about doctors, medical students and organisations
• Web of Knowledge Science citations go back to 1900, making this a source for finding historical, primary material.

Books

• McGill University's Library Catalogue lists the printed holdings in the various branches of the McGill Library, as well as electronic, microform and audio-visual material. Good for locating both primary and secondary material. Tip: Click on the "Sub-catalogues" tab near the top, scroll to the section "Libraries and collections" and select "Osler Library" to see only results held by the Osler Library (good way to limit a search to history of medicine and eliminate general medicine results)
• McGill offers a second library catalogue, McGill WorldCat. This one is more up-to-date with our electronic holdings.

Historical Medical Images

• Osler Library Prints Collection. Historical prints on the history of medicine online
• Images from the History of Medicine There are nearly 60 000 scans of images in this database from the collection of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine.
• Wellcome Images The Wellcome Trust has scans of over 160 000 historical and contemporary images. Search for historical images in advanced mode.

More image collections online can be found here.