Features topics about ancient medicine. Contains texts and illustrations. - Read more

BBC Radio 4 discussion of 2,000 years of the study of human anatomy. - Read more

Course notes and presentations from University of Stanford course which explores the historical development of cultural beliefs and institutions in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which led to the establishment of the modern system of medicine. - Read more

Tells the story of the 19th Century man who survived severe damage to the brain, and how the accident led to significant changes in his personality and mood. - Read more

A place to share stories and resources about the history of polio; from the epidemics, to the vaccines, to post polio syndrome, to eradication. - Read more

Excerpts from comments made by white doctors on the nature of medical practice among Native Americans. Exhibition from the National Library of Medicine. - Read more

Describes the development of early surgeons progressing from part-time barbers to skilled medical professionals. Page includes biographies of key historic figures and events that led to the creation of the Anatomy Act. - Read more

An online exhibit on Popular Medicine in Early America, from Colonial times to the mid 19th Century. - Read more

Provides access to the thousands of prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine. - Read more

UK based discussion list for science, technology and medicine studies - Read more

Health and public health issues in the 19th century, with sections on "Health of the Body Politic", "Fever", "War's Cruel Scythe", "Quacks and Quackery", and "Populate or Perish". - Read more

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An illustrated timeline from 1600 onwards, including electrocuting chickens (1775) and hypothermic dogs (1953). - Read more

Title pages, contents pages, indexes, illustrations, and extracts from the text of many books availabale online. - Read more

University of Iowa online exhibition from 1990. Traces the interwoven history of medical knowledge and technological advance from Galen's early description of the circulatory system to modern breakthroughs in prevention, diagnosis and treatment - Read more

Shows establishment of general practice (family medicine) as a speciality and academic discipline in Great Britain. Includes background history of general practice, foundation of the College, history of the College and its building and detailed chronology by subject. Links to Royal College of General Practitioners Archives pages. - Read more

From prehistoric shamanism to the 20th-century specialist. Developed by students for ThinkQuest. - Read more

A platform where historians publish and discuss their research on experimentation in the life sciences, art, and technology. Managed by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. - Read more

A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms, i.e. medical conditions and techniques and the people for whom they are named. - Read more

Presented by Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Articles discuss the impact, people involved, surgery before anesthesia and current developments in the field. - Read more