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History of Medicine

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

A journal of remarkable occurrences in the time of James M. Gardiner

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 350
Collection Summary

Autobiographical diary, chiefly personal, of a physician. The narrative begins when Gardiner, at 16, started studying medicine in Newburgh. Gardiner gives the titles of the specific medical books he reads over the next 3 years. Also interspersed among personal notes of his life are brief accounts of medical procedures.

Dates: 1809-1844

Acadia Institute Ethnographic and Medical Sociology Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 632
Abstract

Interview transcripts and memos, field notes, correspondence, subject files, reprints, and newspaper clippings documenting multiple ethnographical medical sociology research projects conducted by Judith Swazey and Renée Fox, working independently and jointly under the auspices of the Acadia Institute which primarily focused on social, ethical, and policy issues in biomedical research and healthcare.

Dates: 1966-1987

Achille Chereau Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 172
Abstract

Notes and poetry by Chereau relating to medicine and the history of medicine.

Dates: 1832-1884

An Unexpected Life in Research

 Digital Record
Identifier: 101584577X5
Dates: Publication: 1988

Ann G. Carmichael - Graduate education in the history of medicine survey materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 428
Abstract

Survey forms, printed matter, and correspondence used to conduct a survey undertaken by Carmichael and Numbers for the Education Committee of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Includes information on schools with and without graduate courses in the history of medicine.

Dates: 1981

Calvin Walter Schwabe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 490
Abstract Dr. Calvin Schwabe, veterinarian and public health scientist, has been throughout his career a leading worker at the interface of human and veterinary medicine. Dr. Schwabe was a member of the medical and public health faculties of the American University of Beirut, where he developed a significant research program on hydatid disease and other parasitic zoonoses, founded a joint Department of Tropical Health within those two faculties in l957, and a Department of Epidemiology and...
Dates: 1944-1992

Chauncey D. Leake Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 340
Abstract

Dr. Chauncey Leake received his Ph.D. degree in physiology and pharmacology. Throughout his career as a researcher, teacher, and administrator, Dr. Leake maintained an interest in the history of medicine and medical ethics. Collection consists chiefly of general correspondence relating to individuals as well as to organizations, the latter consisting of associations, societies, foundations, conferences and congresses, and clubs.

Dates: 1921-1976

Edward Shorter "The Health Century" Interview Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH 136
Abstract

The collection consists of interviews conducted by Edward Shorter in preparation for his book The Health Century (1987).

Dates: 1986-1987