Research Guides: Public Health: History of Medicine

History of Medicine Resources

What is a primary source?

Consult the Research Using Primary Sources Guide This guide will clarify how to locate, access, and use primary sources, particularly at the University of Maryland. Check the CDC's Diseases & Conditions A-Z index This list will help you to identify an illness, injury or disease to get started with your class assignment. Identify a report or a meeting transcript from WHO IRIS (World Health Organization, Institutional Repository for Information Sharing) Choose the year before exploring the content.	Credit: Laura Cleary, Instruction and Outreach, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Maryland Libraries

Explore the historical collections of:

U.S. National Library of Medicine
Manuscripts, films & videos, prints & photographs, rare books & journals
More resources A research guide on primary sources for medicine and health from Sam Houston State University

Finding Books

WorldCat - UMD Libraries' catalog

Search the Libraries' catalog, WorldCat, for books, manuscripts, images, videos and more.

Use the filters on the left side menu to filter your results by:

Held By Library (check the box next to University of Maryland, College Park)
Format (article, manuscript, book, ebook, video, image, etc.)
Publication Year
Language

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Google Books - Advanced Book Search

By using Advanced Search, you can limit your results using a variety of parameters.

Finding Newspapers and Magazine Articles

JSTOR Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published from volume 1, issue 1. Please note, most journals have a “moving wall” (time lag) of three to five years between the most current issue published and content available on JSTOR. Coverage spans the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
America's Historical Newspapers Digitized and fully searchable collections of early American newspapers. Includes five databases, Early American Newspapers Series 1 - 3 and African American Newspapers which can be searched together or separately, as well as select Maryland newspapers including the Maryland Gazette (1728-1832) and Baltimore American (1861-1870, 1903-1922). Early American Newspapers includes more than 1,000 U.S. newspapers published between 1690 and 1922. African American Newspaper includes more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
American Periodicals Series Full text images of over 1,100 colonial and early American magazines and periodicals spanning from colonial times to the mid 20th century. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal. Useful for the study of American history, literature, culture, sciences and social sciences. Time span: 1740-1900
Historical newspapers Searchable full-text of the Los Angeles Times (1881-1986); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945); Chicago Tribune (1849-1986); Chicago Defender (1909-1975); Boston Globe (1872-1979); Christian Science Monitor (1908-2001); Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991); Detroit Free Press (1831-1922); St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005); Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002); San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922); New York Tribune (1841-1922); New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993); Hartford Courant (1764-1984); Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003); Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988); Baltimore Sun (1837-1989); San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922); Wall Street Journal (1889-1997); Washington Post (1877-1998)
National Newspapers Core Full text articles from the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Sun (Baltimore), and The Washington Post. Covers national, international and local news. The NYT provides text of important speeches and documents; WSJ reports on international finance; and WP offers strong political reporting, editorials and columnists.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context Fulltext database covering social issues with topic overviews and pro/con viewpoints. Sources include news, journal articles, magazines, media, maps, websites and statistics.
Readers Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) Full-text, searchable information from 44 Readers' Guide annuals. Includes the complete text of the Wilson Library Bulletin from 1914 on and subject heading matching that enables searching of historical subjects using modern terminology.
Washington Post (1987-) Provides citations and full-text articles from the newspaper. Coverage of local, national, and international news. Particularly known for its political reporting. Full-text: January, 1987--present
Congressional Publications Access to the full text of congressional publications. Includes: hearings, legislative histories, committee prints and reports, House and Senate documents, Congressional Record, Serial Set, CRS Reports, bills, public laws, regulations... Congressional hearings, public issues, legislation, history, and legal research.

Finding Films

Selected films from the UMD Digital Collections.

National Healthcare

"Paid in Full," 1976 (Full Length) - 26 min.

"Our Nation's Health," 1953 (Full Length) - 13 min.

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AIDS

"Changing Attitudes: Union Members Talk About AIDS," 1991 (Full Length) - 16 min.

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Environmental Health

"Toxic Earth: The Need to Unite," 1984 (Full length) - 18 min.

Finding Images

Source: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs

ARTstor Repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images, from across many periods and cultures. Architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, and other forms of visual culture are represented. Provides tools to actively use images for scholarship, teaching, and learning.
Bridgeman An archive of images drawn from public and private collections worldwide, all of which are available for licensing. Includes all subjects, styles, periods, and media, and the extensive cataloging records may be searched by keyword. Includes lightbox display feature. Includes all subjects, styles, periods, and media. Includes all time periods.

Digital Collections at UMD Search the digital content from University of Maryland’s Libraries to access material that supports your research and sparks your curiosity.
Internet Archive Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 351 billion archived web pages.
Historical Images in Medicine (Duke University) Duke University Medical Center Archives - The Medical Center Library’s Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences.
Historical Images in Medicine (Library of Congress) Provides access to the online catalog of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. The searchable database includes 650,000+ bibliographic records and digital images cataloged since 1984. Rights and reproduction information is also included.
Historical Images in Medicine (U.S. National Library of Medicine) Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) in NLM Digital Collections provides online access to images from the historical collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. IHM includes image files of a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.
Archives.com - Influenza Epidemic of 1918

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