Guides: HIST 356 Medicine in the Medieval West: Reference works

Medical/disease terminology

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Good source for information on medical terminology.

If you can't find a term in it, or need more information, try Oxford Reference Online (see below) or Credo Reference.

Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease
Descriptions of major historical and modern diseases.

Biographical sources

Dictionary of Medical Biography
Consists of biographies of medical practitioners, primarily in the western medical tradition.
A Dictionary of the History of Medicine (print book).
Ed. Anton Sebastian. New York: Parthenon, 1999. Detailed entries of individuals and events for a general audience. Osler Library Reference, folio WZ 13 S443d 1999

General background sources for history of medicine or medieval history

Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
Contains articles on various aspects of medieval European history from 5th-15th centuries (ebook from Oxford University Press).
Oxford Reference Online

Searches multiple reference books at once, including the Oxford Companion to the Body and the Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. TIP: Narrow down your search to a specific subject area or a specific reference book. Also another good sources for searching medical terminology.

Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present
(print book). Ed. George C. Kohn. New York: Facts on File, 2001. Osler Library, folio WA 13 E565 2001
Medieval Science, Techology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia
(print book). Ed. Thomas Glick, Steven J. Livesey, and Faith Wallis. London: Routledge, 2005. Osler Library Reference, folio WZ 13 M4895 2005

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HIST 356 Medicine in the Medieval West

Medical/disease terminology

Biographical sources

General background sources for history of medicine or medieval history

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