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Surgery of Ancient Rome (Popularity: )

Original instruments excavated from the House of the Surgeon at Pompeii. From the Historical Collections ...

Discovery of Insulin (Popularity: )

Features biographies of Frederick Banting, Charles Best, John James Richard Macleod, and James Collip, plus ...

Catholic Encyclopedia: The Church and Eugenics (Popularity: )

Discuses the Catholic view of the social movement focused on human heredity started by Sir ...

Brief History of Electrocardiography (Popularity: )

Timeline of events in the development of electrocardiography from 1842 onwards.

Who Named It? (Popularity: )

Dictionary of medical eponyms with the stories of diseases, conditions, medical syndromes, and the people ...

Wikipedia: Eugenics (Popularity: )

Offers a brief history of the 20th century movement.

Vermont Eugenics: A Documentary History (Popularity: )

Looks at how eugenics took root and flourished during the first half of the 20th ...

Eugenics Watch (Popularity: )

Introduction to the pseudo science that is dedicated to the proposition that all men are ...

General Practice Airways Group (Popularity: )

Glossary of archaic or obsolete medical terminology and expressions.

Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (Popularity: )

Advances the knowledge and appreciation of the development of medicine in Canada by commemorating those ...

Eugenic Feminisms in Late Nineteenth-Century America: Reading Race in Victoria Woodhull, Frances Willard, Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells (Popularity: )

Essay examining the American intersections of eugenic discourse and organized feminism in the 1890s.

Eugenics Record Office Records, 1670-1964 (Popularity: )

Documenting the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation.

Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World (Popularity: )

Examines the gap between "professional" care (the midwifes and doctors) and folk medicine.

MedHist (Popularity: )

Gateway to resources for the history of medicine and allied sciences.

Against Their Will: North Carolina's Sterilization Program [read review] (Popularity: )

A five-part multimedia presentation on the state-sponsored eugenics program of North Carolina that lasted from ...

NLM's Frankenstein Exhibit (Popularity: )

The Frankenstein novel, and its films, seen through the modern topic of medical ethics. From ...

Ancient Medicine: From Homer to Vesalius (Popularity: )

Online exhibition prepared in conjunction with the Colloquium "Antiqua Medicina: Aspects in Ancient Medicine."

Here Today, Here Tomorrow - Varieties of Medical Ephemera [read review] (Popularity: )

A collection of medical and pharmaceutical ephemera, dating from the 18th century to the present.

American Association of the History of Medicine (Popularity: )

Scholarly association studying the history of the health professions.

Medical Heritage of Great Britain (Popularity: )

Raising awareness of the history and archaeology of medicine. Includes searchable geographical database.