[Sci-tech-public] new online resource in history of medicine from Harvard

[wenc@fas.harvard.edu]

Dear all:

I wanted to publicize this new digital resource if you haven't seen it
already--it is meant to be useful to those teaching undergrads the history of
medicine as well as for journalists and other writers who need
easily-accessible reference material on major topics in the history of
medicine.  It contains more than 2000 works related to the history of medicine
dated between 1494-1923 from Harvard's libraries (most of it coming from
Countway), in multiple languages.

Web pages on the site of possible contemporary interest include vaccination and
the 1918 flu epidemic.  Note also that the site includes the entire set of the
International Sanitary Conference reports (which are quite rare), and the
papers of Benjamin Waterhouse and James Jackson.

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/

Best wishes,
Christine Wenc
A.M., Harvard, history of science, and "Collection development specialist" for
this project