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History of Medicine

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Esmond Ray Long Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 362
Abstract

Biographical data, correspondence, drafts and articles, and printed matter. A sizable portion of the collection pertains to Dr. Long's publications and his work as editor.

Dates: 1920-1974

Felix J. Neumann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 394
Abstract

The collection documents a small portion of the personal life and professional activities of Dr. Neumann.

Dates: 1883-1979 (bulk 1883-1935)

Harold J. Abrahams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 174
Abstract

Jean Francois Coste,1741-1819, served as director of the medical staff and chief physician for the French expeditionary forces aiding America in the war of independence. Harold Justin Abrahams, 1901-, was a research associate at the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia specializing in the history of chemistry and the history of medicine.

Dates: 1968

Historia de la medicina en Uruguay / Rafael Schiaffino

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 240
Abstract

Typescript. Capitulo 1: Los medicos en el descubrimieto de America; capitulo 2: La primeras epidemias en las misiones guaranies siglo XVI.

Dates: c.1930