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History of Medicine around the World

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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

This guide is meant to be general a starting point to research in the history of medicine.

Browse by Geographic/Cultural Region:

• Africa
• Asia
• Eastern Europe
• Islamic and Arabic
• Latin/South America & Mexico
• North America
• South East Asia
• Western Europe

Africa

• History of Ancient Egyptian Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Library. Collection of internet sites.
• A history of traditional medicine and health care in pre-colonial East-Central Africa / Gloria M. Waite. Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c1992. Crerar Stacks R653.Z33W350 1992
• Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960 : lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose / Jean-Paul Bado. Paris : Editions Karthala, c1996. Crerar Stacks R652.B25 1996
• Afro-Christian religion and healing in southern Africa / edited by G.C. Oosthuizen ... [et al.]. Lewiston : E. Mellen Press, 1988. Regenstein Stacks BT732.5.A340 1989
• South Africa: its medical history 1652-1898; a medical and social study by Percy Ward Laidler and Michael Gelfand. Cape Town, C. Struik, 1971.Crerar Stacks R653.S7L2
• A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1958 [c1957] Crerar Stacks R653.S7B93

Asia

• History of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Library. Collection of Internet sites.
• The developmental history of medicine in China and the review of medical progress in America and Russia : including outstanding medical events in the history of the medical world / written by Evan H. Shu. [Seattle? : s.n.], [1963] Crerar Stacks R133.S55
• Unschuld, Paul U. Medicine in China : historical artifacts and images. Crerar Stacks R601 .U97
• History and development of traditional Chinese medicine / Wang Zhenguo, Chen Ping, Xie Peiping.Advanced traditional Chinese medicine series ; v. 1 Crerar Stacks R601 .H57 1999
• Tibetan medicine : illustrated in original texts / presented and translated by the Ven. Rechung Rinpoche Jampal Kunzang. London : Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine, 1973. Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. Publications, new ser., v. 24. Regenstein Stacks R603.T5T521
• The mission of Hippocrates in Japan : the contribution of Philipp Franz von Siebold / Harmen Beukers = Hipokuratesu Nihon tokushi : Firippu Furantsu fon Shiboruto no koseki / Harumen Byukerusu cho. Amsterdam : Four Centuries of Netherlands-Japan Relations, c1998. Crerar Stacks DA834.9.S56B36 1997
• The diseases of China, including Formosa and Korea / by W Hamilton Jefferys and James L. Maxwell - with 5 colored plates, 11 noso-geographical plates, and 360 illustrations in the text. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's son & co., 1910. Crerar Stacks RA901.J4
• Medicine in China : a history of pharmaceutics / Paul U. Unschuld. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986. Series: Comparative studies of health systems and medical care. Crerar Stacks RS67.C6U57
• Catalog of books on the study of history of Korean medicine. Osaka, Osaka Library, 1949. Osaka library series, no. 1 Crerar Stacks Lower Level Z6661.K8M64

Eastern Europe

• Russian physicians in an era of reform and revolution, 1856-1905 / Nancy Mandelker Frieden. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1981.Crerar Stacks R532.F740
• The first Russian women physicians / Jeanette E. Tuve. Newtonville, Mass. : Oriental Research Partners, 1984. Series: Russian biography series. 6. Crerar Stacks R692.T88 1984
• Hyde, Gordon. The Soviet health service; a historical and comparative study. London, Lawrence & Wishart, 1974. Regenstein Stacks RA412.5.R9H95
• Medical welfare during late Stalinism : a study of doctors and the Soviet health system, 1945-53 / by Chris Burton. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of History, March 2000. Includes bibliographical references. Crerar Stacks RA1299 Burton
• Health and society in revolutionary Russia / edited by Susan Gross Solomon and John F. Hutchinson. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1990. Crerar Stacks RA418.3.S65H430 1990
• Bubonic plague in early modern Russia : public health & urban disaster / John T. Alexander. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1980. Series: The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political sciences ; 98th ser., no. 1. Crerar Stacks RC179.R8A430
• In health and in sickness : pharmacy, pharmacists, and the pharmaceutical industry in late imperial, early Soviet Russia / Mary Schaeffer Conroy. Crerar Stacks RS67.S65C66 1994
• Health care delivery in the U.S.S.R. : a bibliography, 1928-1987 / Michael I. Stevenson. Monticello, Ill., USA : Vance Bibliographies, [1987] Series: Public administration series--bibliography, 0193-970X ; P-2195 Crerar Stacks Z6661.S65S740 1987
• Medical and surgical history of the British army which served in Turkey and the Crimea during the war against Russia in the years 1854-55-56. London : Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1858. Location Call No. Copy No. Notes Crerar Dewey Coll 613.67 L802

Islamic and Arabic Medicine

• Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division. Here you can learn about Islamic medicine and science during the Middle Ages and the important role it played in the history of Europe.
• Classical Islamic Biomedicine, Karolinska Institutet Library. Collection of internet sites.
• Bibliography of Islamic medicine and pharmacy = Bibliographie der islamischen Medizin und Pharmazie / by Zouhir M. Agha ; foreword by Abdullah Omer Nassief. Crerar Stacks R128.3.A4 1983
• Health sciences in early Islam : collected papers / by Sami K. Hamarneh ; edited by Munawar A. Anees. San Antonio : Zahra Publications, c1983-c1984. Regenstein Stacks R143.H350 1983
• Notable Muslim names in medical science / S.A.R. Hamdani. Lahore : Ferozsons, 1976. Crerar Stacks R144.A1H350
• Exchanges between India and Central Asia in the field of medicine / by Abdul Hameed ; foreword by Saiyid Hamid. New Delhi : Dept. of History of Medicine and Science, Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, 1986. Crerar Stacks R606.H36 1986
• A medical history of Persia and the eastern caliphate. The development of Persian and Arabic medical sciences from the earliest times until the year A. D. 1932 ... With additions and corrections from the author's copy. Crerar Stacks R631.E397 1979
• Health care in Muslim Asia : development and disorder in wartime Afghanistan / Ronald W. O'Connor. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c1994. Crerar Stacks RA541.A3O260 1994
• Studies in history of medicine and science. Date/vol. Vol. 9, no. 1-2 ([Mar. & June 1985])- Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India : Dept. of History of Medicine and Science, Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, 1987- Crerar Stacks R131.A1S77 v 9-13(1985-1994), v.15(1997-1998)

Latin/South America & Mexico

• La medicina tradicional en el Norte de México / Silvia Ortiz Echániz, coordinadora. México, D.F. : Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 1999. Series: Colección científica (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico)) 413. Regenstein Stacks GR115.M42 1999
• Aspects of the history of medicine in Latin America : report of a conference / edited by John Z. Bowers and Elizabeth F. Purcell. New York : Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation, c1979. Crerar Stacks R464.5.A860
• Medicine in the New World : New Spain, New France, and New England / edited by Ronald L. Numbers. Series: International Congress of the History of Medicine (27th : 1980 : Barcelona, Spain) Crerar Stacks R465.M430 1987
• Learning to heal : the medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831 / Luz María Hernández Sáenz. Series: American university studies. Series XXI, Regional studies. vol. 17 New York : Peter Lang, c1997. Crerar Stacks R466 .H47 1997
• Abel, Christopher. Health care in Colombia, c. 1920-c. 1950 : a preliminary analysis. London : Institute of Latin American Studies, c1994. Crerar Stacks RA467.A234 1994
• Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. Library An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine : books and printed documents, 1557-1821, from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands and manuscripts from the Americas, 1575-1927 / by Robin Price. London : The Institute, 1983. Regenstein Stacks Z661.A45W440 1983

North America

• Medicine that walks : disease, medicine and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940 / Maureen K. Lux. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2001. Regenstein Stacks E78.P7 L89 2001
• Death in early America : the history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning / by Margaret M. Coffin. Nashville : Nelson, c1976. Regenstein Stacks GT3203.C67
• Two centuries of American medicine, 1776-1976 / James Bordley III, A. McGehee Harvey. Philadelphia : Saunders, 1976. Crerar Stacks R151.B73
• The story of medicine in America [by] Geoffrey Marks and William K. Beatty. New York, Scribner [1973] Crerar Stacks R151.M35
• Major problems in the history of American medicine and public health : documents and essays /edited by John Harley Warner, Janet A. Tighe. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2001. Major problems in American history series. Crerar Stacks R151 .M35 2001
• Medicine and society in America, 1660-1860. Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972. Series: Anson G. Phelps lectureship on early American histor. [New York] New York University Press, 1960. Crerar Stacks R151.S56
• American medical biography; or, Memoirs of eminent physicians who have flourished in America, to which is prefixed a succinct history of medical science in the United States from the first settlement of the country.Thacher, James, 1754-1844. New York, Milford House, 1967. Crerar Reference, floor 1 R153.T36 1967
• American medical education : the formative years, 1765-1910 / Martin Kaufman. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1976. Crerar Stacks R745.K21
• A profile of the United States Public Health Service, 1798-1948, by Bess Furman, in consultation with Ralph C. Williams. [Bethesda, Md.] National Institutes of Health; [1973] Series: DHEW publication ; no. (NIH) 73-369. SSA Stacks and Crerar Stacks RA11.B19F95
• The making and meaning of hospital policy in the United States and Canada / Terry Boychuck. Crerar Stacks RA395.A3 B694 1999
• Medical licensing in America, 1650-1965. Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1967] Crerar Stacks RA396.A3S56

South East Asia

• History of Traditional Indian Medicine , Karolinska Institutet Library. Collection of internet sites.
• A history of Indian medical literature / G. Jan Meulenbeld. Groningen : E. Forsten, Crerar Stacks R605.M49 1999
• Bagchi, Asoke K. Title: Medicine in medieval India : 11th to 18th centuries Delhi : Konark Publishers, c1997. Crerar Stacks R605.B34 1997
• History of medicine in India, from antiquity to 1000 A.D. / editor, Priya Vrat Sharma.New Delhi : Indian National Science Academy, 1992. Crerar Stacks R605.H580 1992
• A history of Indian medical literature / G. Jan Meulenbeld. Groningen : E. Forsten, Groningen Oriental studies. v. 25 Crerar Stacks R605.M49 1999 v.2A-2B
• Collaboration in health development in South-East Asia, 1948-1988 : fortieth anniversary volume, revised. Edition: Rev. ed., 1992. New Delhi : World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, 1992.WHO regional publications. South-East Asia series no. 19. Crerar Stacks RA395.A785C650 1992
• Health, medicine, and empire : perspectives on colonial India / edited by Bisamoy Pati, Mark Harrison. Hyderabad, India : Orient Longman, c2001 Series: New perspectives in South Asian history ; 1 S Asia Arrear, floor 5 Regenstein I-E-00-440956; 61-91 00440956

Western Europe

• Dutch transatlantic medicine trade in the eighteenth century under the cover of the West India Company / A.M.G. Ruttten [i.e. Rutten]. Rotterdam : Erasmus Pub., 2000. Regenstein Stacks HD9671.N4R88 2000
• Ancients and moderns in the medical sciences : from Hippocrates to Harvey / Roger French. Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 2000. (Covers 16th-17th centuries) Crerar Stacks R128 .F745 2000
• Medicine from the Black Death to the French disease / edited by Roger French ... [et al.]. Aldershot, Hants ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., c1998 Crerar Stacks R141 .M46 1998
• A social history of medicine : health, healing and disease in England, 1750-1950 / Joan Lane. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. Crerar Stacks R487 .L36 2001
• Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550-1680 / Andrew Wear. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. Crerar Stacks R487 .W43 2000
• Medicine, disease, and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940 / edited by Greta Jones and Elizabeth Malcolm.Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press ; Portland, Or. : International Specialized Book Services, 1999. Crerar Stacks R498.6 .M43 1999
• A portrait of Irish medicine : an illustrated history of medicine in Ireland / Eoin O'Brien and Anne Crookshank, with Sir Gordon Wolstenholme. Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland : Published for the Bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland by Ward River Press, 1984. Crerar Stacks, Oversize f R498.6.O270 1984
• Constructing Paris medicine. Series: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine Clio medica ; 50 Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998. Crerar Stacks R506.P3 C66 1998
• The transformation of German academic medicine, 1750-1820 / Thomas H. Broman Series: Cambridge history of medicine. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. Crerar Stacks R510.B760 1996
• The shaping of a profession : physicians in Norway, past and present / Øivind Larsen, editor ; Bent Olaf Olsen, associate editor. Canton, MA : Science History Publications/USA, 1996. Crerar Stacks R547 .S53 1996
• Medicine and medical ethics in Medieval and early modern Spain : an intercultural approach / edited by Samuel S. Kottek and Luís García-Ballester. Jerusalem : Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1996. Crerar Stacks R556.M43 1996
• Becoming a physician : medical education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, 1750-1945 / Thomas Neville Bonner. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. Crerar Stacks R735.B660 1995
• Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830-1930 / Peter Baldwin. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. Crerar Stacks RA483 .B25 1999
• Contours Of Death And Disease In Early Modern England by Dobson, Mary J. Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997. ONLINE or Crerar Stacks RA650.6.G6 D63 1997