HIST 458a Medical Knowledge, Medical Judgement

Electronic resources

• Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease Entries include the history and description of 161 diseases.
• Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary Good source for medical terminology.
• Oxford Reference Online Searches multiple reference books; good for definitions of terms and brief information on people; can search by specific subject areas.
• Xreferplus Multisource database; search by specific subsets, such as medicine or history.
• The Cambridge World History of Human Disease

Print

• Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. Osler Ref WZ 13 C737 1993
• A Dictionary of the History of Medicine. Osler Ref folio WZ 13 S443d 1999

More dictionaries, encyclopedia, and resources for background information can be found here.

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• Open access resource
• Free resource
• In-library use
• Catalogue record