The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Health and Medicine

See also Science and Technology.

• BioMed Central. BioMed Central Ltd. Search or browse for free, peer-reviewed  articles on the biological sciences and medicine. BioMed Central also publishes the peer-reviewed, Open Access journal Biomedical Digital Libraries. Date accessed: 2002-02-01. Date added: 2002-02-01. Date updated: 2004-04-12.
• Collection Medic@. Paris, France: Histoire de la médecine et de l'art dentaire, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Médecine. Variant title: Collection Medica. Searchable/browsable collection of digital facsimiles of historic texts dating back to at least the 16th century which are significant to the history of medicine and dentistry. As of July 2004, Medic@ contained 2,430 works totaling 415,000 pages. Many of the titles include background essays for context.  Some Medic@ pages, such as the introductory essay by Marie-Laure Monfort titled  " First printed editions of the Hippocratic Collection at the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine of Paris (BIUM)," are in English and French. Date accessed: 2004-08-23. Date added: 2004-08-23.
• The Discovery and Early Development of Insulin, 1920-1925. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Libraries, Digital Collections. Summary: " This site documents the initial period of the discovery and development of insulin, 1920-1925, by presenting over seven thousand page images reproducing original documents ranging from laboratory notebooks and charts, correspondence, writings, and published papers to photographs, awards, clippings, scrapbooks, printed ephemera and artifacts." Date accessed: 2004-12-21. Date added: 2004-12-21.
• DoHistory. Harvard University. " A site that shows you how to piece together the past from the fragments that have survived. Our case study: Martha Ballard." Martha Ballard (1735-1812) was an American  midwife and the centerpiece of this site is a digital facsimile and transcription of the diary she kept for 27 years (1785-1812). Supporting documents in the form and archival records and publications are also available for study. Date accessed: 2002-09-17. Date added: 2002-09-17.
• ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online). Berlin, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and others. Digital facsimiles that document the achievements and diffusion of Western and Eastern civilizations beginning with Sumerian cuneiform tablets (3000 B.C.) as represented in the CDLI and ranging across time  and  topics to the 20th cenutry. Date accessed: 2004-03-06. Date added: 2004-03-06. Date updated: 2005-02-27.
• ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online: Science and Technology. Fairfax, VA: Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. Date accessed: 2002-10-23. Date added: 2002-10-23.
• E-Journals and Books Useful to Clinicians (Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, BC). Collection of links to free online publications.
• FreeMedicalJournals.com. Central site for public access to medical and health sciences journals in a variety of languages.
• Health Sciences Ejournals (National Network of Libraries of Medicine).
• HealthInterNetwork. An international effort organized by the World Health Organization to provide free access to health sciences literature to developing countries, this site includes links to other free collections of medical and health publications. The bibliographic databases can be searched by anyone. Date accessed: 2002-10-10. Date added: 2002-10-10.
• Historical Anatomies on the Web. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine. Summary: " ...a digital project designed to give Internet users access to high quality images from important anatomical atlases in the Library's collection. The project offers selected images from NLM's atlas collection, not the entire books, with an emphasis on images and not texts. Atlases and images are selected primarily for their historical and artistic significance, with priority placed upon the earliest and/or the best edition of a work in NLM's possession." Date accessed: 2003-12-15. Date added: 2003-12-15.
• John P. McGovern History of Medicine Digital Library. Houston, Texas: John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center. Electronic resources, chiefly in HTML format with some illustrations in digitized form, relating to the history of medicine and health care.
• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. San Francisco, CA: Library, University of California, San Francisco Washington, D.C.: American Legacy Foundation. " The Legacy National Tobacco Documents Library offers searching, viewing, and downloading of over 20 million documents, which relate to scientific research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes, among other topics, generally dating from the 1950's to recent years. These documents represent the contents of tobacco industry websites as of July 1999 newer material will be added to this library over time." See also: Tobacco Control Archives. Date accessed: 2002-02-01. Date added: 2002-02-01.
• Livingstone Online: Explore the medical writings of David Livingstone. London, Eng.: Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. Summary: " The aim of Livingstone Online is to use the potential of electronic publishing to make available an online edition of the medical and scientific correspondence of David Livingstone. Our efforts in this regard have been kindly funded by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL and the Wellcome Trust." Date accessed: 2010-04-28. Date added: 2010-04-28.
• On the Fabric of the Human Body. Chicago, IL: Northwestern University. A complete translation and hypertext rendition by Daniel Garrison and Malcolm Hast of Andreas Vesalius' De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543, 1555). Date accessed: 2003-03-21. Date added: 2003-03-21.
• PubMed. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine. Locate and view abstracts for medical and health sciences literature. PubMed also provides links to free full-text Web resources. Date updated: 2003-12-15.
• PubMed Central: An Archive of Life Science Journals. Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine. " A digital archive of life sciences journal literature." Access to the journals is free and they can be browsed by issue date or keyword searched.   In some cases, such as the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, a complete run of a serial and its successor title can be viewed online or downloaded as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. Date accessed: 2002-10-07. Date added: 2002-10-07. Date updated: 2003-12-15.
• Sir Frederick Banting Digital Library. New Tecumseth, ON: New Tecumseth Public Library. Variant title: Banting Digital Library. Multimedia content about the Canadian scientist who discovered insulin. Date accessed: 2002-09-16. Date added: 2002-09-16.
• Tobacco Control Archives (Sponsored by Department of Archives & Special Collections, University of California San Francisco Library and Center for Knowledge Management). Central repository of electronic versions of unpublished corporate and government records relating to the tobacco industry and allegations that cigarette manufacturers covered up the addictive quality of nicotine. Includes documents from the British-American Tobacco Company (BATCo) uncovered by the British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General researchers at the Guildford Document Depository, England. Site includes links to other online archives of tobacco industry documents such as Tobacco Documents Online (http://www.tobaccodocuments.org/ ) and the Tobacco Institute Document Site (http://www.tobaccoinstitute.com/). See also Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. Date accessed: 2002-02-01. Date updated: 2002-02-01.
• The Virtual Laboratory: Essays and Resources on the Experimentalization of Life, 1830-1930. Berlin, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Digital facsimiles of texts and other media relating to biological experiments, and modern essays by historians of science. Date accessed: 2004-03-06. Date added: 2004-03-06.

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