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History of Medicine

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Saul Jarcho, M.D. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 384
Abstract

Dr. Jarcho's principal fields of interest include internal medicine and medical history. He has published more than 200 articles and sixty book reviews on clinical medicine, pathology, the history of medicine, paleopathology, and cartography. A sizable part of the collection consists of correspondence relating to the subject of the history of medicine and to the activities of the National Library of Medicine.

Dates: 1917-1989

Stanhope Bayne-Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 155
Abstract

Subjects include family background, education, service in World War I and II, Dr. Bayne-Jones' association with the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Dates: 1852-1969

Teaching of Medical History in the United States and Canada: field survey collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 427
Abstract

Correspondence, printed matter, and completed survey forms relating to a survey of medical history teaching in the United States and Canada

Dates: 1947-1971

The sceptical medical controversy in Spain, 1722-1726: thesis submitted to Harvard University for Bachelor of Arts degree

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 208
Collection Summary

Typescript copy of Thomas F. Glick's thesis, "The sceptical medicine controversy in Spain, 1722-1726," submitted to Harvard University for a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960.

Dates: 1960

Washington Society for the History of Medicine. Archives

 Collection
Identifier: HMD MS ACC 2015-047
Abstract

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Correspondence, membership, and program/event records documenting the activities of the Society.

Dates: 1991-2009

William Bennett Bean Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 403
Abstract

Dr. William Bean was a well-known medical historian and teacher associated with the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the Cincinnati General Hospital, 1936-1948, University of Iowa College of Medicine (1948-1970), and the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (1974-1980). The papers relate to Dr. Bean's work and interests as author, teacher, editor, and medical historian.

Dates: 1931-1985