Research History of Medicine Topics

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Books

Search for books published by academic presses on WorldCat
- Change the drop-down menu from "Keyword" to "Publisher"
- Enter the word "university" in the search box
- Retrieved search results will have the word "university" in their company name, such as Stanford University Press and Oxford University Press
- Click on the link "Libraries Worldwide" to see if a particular book is at Stanford
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Dissertations

PhD dissertations sometimes include a literature review on their topic. These reviews can be helpful in building your bibliography.

Search by topic in ProQuest

Listservs

To further build a bibliography, you can post an inquiry or review past postings on the following listservs:

Articles

Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University)
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (Oxford University)
PubMed
- Limit to "Historical Article" from the "Type of Article"

Citations

Once you have generated a list of books and articles, you can further build your bibliography by investigating where those books and articles have been cited in other books and articles.

Search for citations in Web of Science

Reference Works

Reference works can provide a broad overview of a topic, and also furnish a starting bibliography. We carry encyclopedias, chronologies, necrologies, and other standard reference sources in the history of medicine, including:

Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (New York: Routledge, 1993).
Encyclopedia of Medical History by Robert E. McGrew (New York: Macmillan Press, 1985).
A Chronology of Medicine and Related Sciences by Leslie T. Morton and Robert J. Moore (Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 1997).
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Roy Porter (New York: W.W.Norton & Company, 1997).