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History of Medicine

Locating Print Resources - Do an Advanced Search for "medicine" AND "history" or "ancient" AND "medicine" or "egyptian" AND "medicine" or "caesarian section" etc.

Title Call Number

The Alarming History of Medicine

610 GOR
Albucasis (Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi): Renowned Muslim Surgeon of the Tenth Century 610 ABU

American Indian Healing Arts : Herbs, Rituals, and Remedies for Every Season of Life

615 KAV

The Black Death

614.5 COR

Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine

610 POR

Doctors: The Biography of Medicine

610 NUL

Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists

909 MOR

Medical Discoveries: Medical Breakthroughs and the People Who Developed Them

610.9 MED

Medicine: An Illustrated History

610 LYO
Prehistoric and Egyptian Medicine 610 DAW
Renaissance Medicine 610 DAW

Databases - free to print

Pick up a copy of "Biblioteca Las Americas Digital Resources" at the reference desk for home access codes and passwords.

Try GALE Academic OneFile. Go to Subject Guides and search for "medicine." In ProQuest eLibrary, do a topic search for medicine and click on the appropriate link. EBSCO's Consumer Health Complete is a good one, too.

Websites

U.S. National Library of Medicine History of Medicine - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/index.html
Dream Anatomy from the NLM - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/index.html
Visible Proofs from the NLM - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/
PBS Red Gold: The Epic Story of Blood - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/
History of Biomedical Medicine from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden - http://www.mic.ki.se/History.html Great links!
Women Physicians 1850's - 1970's - http://archives.drexelmed.edu/womanmd/
LEECHES in medicine - http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/waterres/Bugs/Leeches.htm
Spices: Exotic Flavors and Medicines - http://unitproj1.library.ucla.edu/biomed/spice/

 Citation Guides

Handouts on APA and MLA format are located on the shelf by the computers.

http://www.noodletools.com - Passwords are available at the library.

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