DósisDósis is an online blog and magazine dedicated to exploring the intersection of medical humanities and social justice. The web-only publication offers three issues for 2018 featuring essays, commentary, and reviews clustered around a particular theme. Though comprising only a single year of work, Dósis offers all essays without cost to a reading public.
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Primary Sources and Finding Aids
History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium"The Consortium leads you to the rich primary source information found in historical documents, personal papers, business records, and more. Finding aids provide contextual information about these collections, often with detailed inventories, to help researchers locate relevant materials."
Medicine and Madison Avenue"This collection explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or 'Madison Avenue,' as the latter is colloquially termed. It presents images and information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines. These ads illustrate the variety and evolution of marketing images from the 1910s through the 1950s. The collection represents a wide range of products such as cough and cold remedies, laxatives and indigestion aids, and vitamins and tonics, among others."
Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia"The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library is a searchable image database and exhibition platform dedicated to celebrating and communicating the history of medicine. The Digital Library launched in December 2013 with images drawn from the Historical Medical Library collection, with strengths in the history of anatomy and botanical medicine. Highlights include images from rare incunabula previously unavailable online, unusual selections from more popular early modern anatomists, and over 300 photos from the Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection."
