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Journal Articles
Books
Biographical
Information
Images
& Portraits
History
of Medicine around the World
Historical
Statistics
Scholarly
Societies for the History of Medicine
Selected Modern
Manuscript and Archival Collections at the University of Chicago Library
John Crerar Library
Collection of
Rare Books in the History of Science and Medicine
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History of Medicine: Finding Books
This guide is meant
to be general a starting point to research in the history of medicine,
primarily within North America. To locate books written in or about a
subject from a specific period of history try the following strategies:
- When searching
for books about the history of medicine during the course of
a century, use the "Keyword" search in the catalog and combine
the words "history" and "medicine" with the century
you are interested in, as represented by its numerical value. For example
"medicine history 18" will retrieve books with the subject
of the history of medicine in the 18th century. You can also add keywords
about the specific subject you are interested in like "history
17 childbirth." (See below)
- When searching
for books published during a specific time, limit your subject
keyword search for a date range applicable to your research. (See below)
- TIP: Since it is
possible that the subject headings will sometimes not capture
important date information AND since Library of Congress subject headings
are sometimes broad in nature, it is often valuable to conduct your
search based on keywords alone without limiting your search to specific
dates.
For example, in the record below, none of the subject headings contain
information about the timeline this book covers. This record was retrieved
by a very broad search of "(health or medic*) and (ethnic* or race)
and hist*"
 
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