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Archives

U.S. National Archives and Record Administration

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Bibliographies

History of Race in Science
About a thousand entries concerning race; emphasizing English writings on 19th and 20th-century America, Europe, and Colonialism.

The History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology
A Bibliographic guide to the professions and the disciplines.

Women Physicians' Autobiographies

Black Nurses in History provides a bibliography and guide to web resources regarding black nurses and their struggle for equality in the profession.

American Women's History: A Research Guide

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Bulletin Boards

H-Sci-Med-Tech is a discussion list and web site for scholars who study science, medicine and technology across a wide variety of periods and regions of the world.

Disability Social History Project

History of Sexuality (on H-Net)

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Digital Collections

Rare book, manuscript, and special collections at Duke/

The Yellow Fever Collection: major themes and personalities in the history of yellow fever

Aventis Pasteur polio eradication home

Making of America: is a digital library of primary sources in American History from the antebellum period through reconstruction

Primary sources for the history of sex, sexuality and the construction of gender

Living City: a digital library initiative intended to capture the experience of life, health, and urban transformation during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I.

First Person:Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives

American Story and Life provides chronologies and hundreds of brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history.

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Funding Sources

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

National Science Foundation

American Association of University Women

American Institute of the History of Pharmacy

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

The Wellcome Trust

The Radcliffe Institute fellowships

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Getting Started in Medical History

MedHist: UK's gateway to resources for the history of medicine

History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links

Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de medecine, Paris

Health Heritage Research: Preserving, promoting and profiting from Canada's healthcare heritage and planning for a healthy future

History of Health Sciences Resources

DoHistory invites you to explore the process of piecing together the lives of ordinary people in the past. It is an experimental, interactive case study based on the research that went into the book and film A Midwife's Tale, which were both based upon the remarkable 200 year old diary of midwife/healer Martha Ballard.

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Journals

Gender Watch: publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.

Project Muse is a worldwide institutional subscription access to the full text of more than 200 scholarly journals

J-STOR: A scholarly journal archive

Guide to periodical literature

Poole's index to periodical literature, 1802-1907

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Professional Societies

American Association for the History of Medicine

American Historical Association has Directory of Affiliated Societies with links to many history-related websites

American Society for Environmental History

American Society of Church History

British Society for the History of Science

Canadian Society for the History of Medicine

Forum for the History of Human Sciences

History of Science Society/a>

American Institute of the History of Pharmacy

National Library of Medicine

Organization of American Historians

Sigerist Circle

Society for Medical Anthropology

Society for the Social History of Medicine:

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Virtual Museums

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia displays special exhibits covering the both the history of medicine and current issues in health and medicine. The Métter Museum displays the College's collections of fluid-preserved anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, anatomical and pathological models, memorabilia of famous scientists and physicians, and medical illustrations in various formats.

Museum of Menstruation and Womençs Health

The National Library of Medicine houses nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the NLM.

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Women in Medical Fields

American Women's History: A Research Guide - Sexuality

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