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Primary historical works as well as modern approaches to historical topics are featured in this selection of books on medical history, a field that explores the drama, mystery, and personalities involved in the struggle against disease.
From social and cultural history to the evolution of technologies, therapies, and bodies of knowledge, our understanding of the healing arts and the scientific process is enriched by an engagement with medical history--learning and thinking about the past can inform future efforts toward improving human health and wellness.
Image Credit: National Library of Medicine. King George Military Hospital, 1915. http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101614620
In Print
Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, mad science and medical regulation in nineteenth-century Edinburgh by WHSC Library WZ 100 B3288 2010
The aphorisms of Hippocrates (Classics of Medicine Library)WHSC Library WZ 309 H45 1982 T
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine by Woodruff Library RD27.35.L57 F58 2017, Oxford College 617.092 F555b
The Demon under the Microscope: From battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctor's heroic search for the world's first miracle drug by Woodruff Library RM666 .S9 H34 2006
Dissection: Photographs of a rite of passage in American medicine, 1880-1930 by WHSC Library WZ 17 W282 2009 T
From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering public health by WHSC Library WZ 100 C77L44 2007 T, Woodruff Library RA424.5 .C68 L44 2007
The Gene: An intimate history by WHSC Library QU 475 M85 2016, Woodruff Library RB155 .M85 2016, Oxford College Library 616.042 M9537g
Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine by WHSC Library Z675 .M4 H53 2012 T
A History of Haematology: From Herodotus to HIV: From Herodotus to HIV by Woodruff Library RC633 .M33 2016
HIV Pioneers: Lives lost, careers changed, and survival by WHSC Library WC 503 H58 2018, Woodruff Library RC606.54 .H58 2018
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck by Woodruff Library KF224.B83 C64 2016- An introduction to the study of experimental medicine (Classics of Medicine Library) by WHSC Library W 20.5 B4 1980 T, Woodruff Library R850 .B413
Madhouse: A tragic tale of megalomania and modern medicine by WHSC Library WM 11 AN4 S38 2005 T
Plagues in the Nation: how epidemics shaped America by WHSC Library WA 110 P945 2022 T, Woodruff Library RA650.5 .P75 2022
Pox: An American history by WHSC Library WC 590 W739P 2011 T, Woodruff Library RA644 .S6 W55 2011
The Sick Rose, or, Disease and the art of medical illustration by WHSC Library WZ 348 B37 2014 and online
Ten Drugs: How plants, powders, and pills have shaped the history of medicine by Woodruff Library RM45 .H34 2019
Vaccine: The controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver by WHSC Library WA 115 A78 2008 T, Woodruff Library RA638 .A45 2007 and Oxford College Library 614.470 A4251V
Venus Envy: A history of cosmetic surgery by WHSC Library WO 11 H3 1997 T and Woodruff Library RD119 .H35 1997
eBooks
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One health and its histories by Open Access eBook and at Woodruff Library R133 .W66 2018
Doctoring the South: Southern physicians and everyday medicine in the mid-nineteenth century by eBook and at WHSC Library WZ 70 AS9 S76 2007 T, Woodruff Library R154.5 .S68 S76 2004
Examining Tuskegee: The infamous syphilis study and its legacy by eBook and at Woodruff Library R853 .H8 R48 2009, Pitts Library R853 .H8 R48 2009
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by eBook and at Woodruff Library RG67 .U6 C66 2017
Nature Cures: The history of alternative medicine in America by eBook and at Woodruff Library R733 .W495 2002
Polio Wars: Sister Elizabeth Kenny and the golden age of American medicine by eBook and at Woodruff Library RA644.P9 R644 2014
Sick from Freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by eBook and at Woodruff Library RA448.5.N4 D69 2012
The Skull Collectors: Race, science, and America's unburied dead by eBook and at Woodruff Library GN90 .F33 2010
