Directory

Material assembled by Jaroslav Nemec as part of his work at the National Library of Medicine. Included are short biographies of important figures in forensic medicine, a directory of institutes of legal medicine, two narrative articles, and correspondence and other material resulting from a project to identify all conference, congresses, and meetings on legal medicine.

Established in 1960, the Washington Society for the History of Medicine is an academic organization affiliated with the American Association of the History of Medicine and the Washington Academy of Sciences. This collection includes administrative files and correspondence from 1961-2009.