The Past is Present: Medical History highlights from the WHSC Library collections
Now on display at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library are highlights from the history of medicine collections, in print and electronic format. 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.
Some eBook highlights from the collection can be found at the following links:
- Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories. Abigail Woods. Woodruff Library R133 .W66 2018 and online.
- Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its Legacy. Susan M. Reverby. Woodruff Library R853 .H8 R48 2009 and online.
- Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science. Shauna Devine. (2014)
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. Deirdre Cooper Owens. (2017)
- Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America. James C. Whorton. Woodruff Library R733 .W495 2002 and online.
- The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead. Ann Fabian. Woodruff Library GN90 .F33 2010 and online.
Learn more about the display at the collection’s webpage The Past is Present: Medical History and visit the WHSC Library to check out the print materials in this collection.
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