U.S. National Library of Medicine has a search page that
aggregates online resources. The History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium is
a discovery tool that provides keyword search services across a union catalog
of descriptions of primary sources materials found in special collections and
archives throughout the United States.
The consortium leads to information
found in historical documents, personal papers, business records, and other
sources. Finding aids provide contextual information about these collections
along with detailed inventories to help researchers locate relevant materials. Currently 3,600 finding aides are indexed from 35
institutions that collect broadly in the areas of the history of medicine,
allied sciences, general collections and archives.
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A complementary resource also exists at the National Library of Medicine’s website. The Directory of History of Medicine Collections (http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/hmddirectory/index.cfm) enables researchers to locate medical history archives, libraries, and other collections in their own areas. You can either search by state or browse the list. The directory is constantly growing, so check back often!
Ken Koyle
Deputy Chief, History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
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