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  1. Organization Type: Museum
    Address: Ann Baillie Building National Historic Site, 32 George Street
    City: Kingston
    State Or Province: Ontario
    Zip / Postal Code: K7L2V7
    Country: Canada
    Telephone Number: 613-548-2419
    Abstract: The Museum of Health Care at Kingston is a safe haven for more than 30,000 artefacts, including medical, surgical, and laboratory instruments, commemorative objects, and patient care items. Individuals and institutions donated the artefacts in the various collections, which date from the late 18th century to the present. The collection can be searched on the Museum's website at <a href="http://www.museumofhealthcare.ca" > http://www.museumofhealthcare.ca</a> or Artefacts Canada. The Museum can provide images for both web publication, and high-resolution images for print publication.
    Holdings: More than 30,000 artefacts.
    Contact Name, Title: Paul Robertson (Curator) Or Dr. James Low (Executive Director), Curator, Executive Director
    Contact Telephone Number: 6135482419
    Contact Email Address: museum@kgh.kari.net
    Web Site: http://www.museumofhealthcare.ca
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anatomy, History of Anesthesiology and Anesthesia, History of Cardiology [show all 21]
  2. Organization Type: Library, Museum, Archive
    Address: University of the Basque Country (Lejona Campus), Central Library Bulding E-48940, Lejona (Biscay), Spain
    City: Lejona
    Zip / Postal Code: E-48940
    Country: Spain
    Telephone Number: 946012790 / 946012270
    Fax Number: (34) 946 013 2
    Abstract: The Basque Museum of the History of Medicine was founded by José Luis Goti in 1982 to preserve the historic memory of medicine in the Basque Country. The Museum is located on the campus of Leioa of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and is important in the training of students of medicine and the students coming from other faculties. Apart from safeguarding our scientific heritage, the Museum —as part of the university— has a research and teaching mission. On the research side, it aims to unite the global vision of issues such as the history of disease, geophysics or meteorology, with an interest for local reality in different sanitary and scientific aspects. As far as teaching is concerned, classes and practicals of different subjects from degrees related to health sciences are given at the Seminar Room. In addition to placing its contents at the disposal of historians of medicine and science in general, the Museum aims to spread knowledge among the public in general. Together with its Permanent Exhibition, the Museum displays Temporary Exhibitions of different topics, and collaborates with other exhibitions or national events.
    Holdings: Its permanent exposition comprises approx. 6,000 medical objects of the 19th and 20th centuries organized thematically in 24 rooms devoted to different medical specialities: folk medicine, unconventional medicine, pharmacy, weights and measures, asepsis and antisepsis, microscopes, laboratory material, X-rays, obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery, anaesthesia, endoscope, odontology, cardiology, ophthalmology, electrotherapy, pathological anatomy and natural sciences. In addition, the Museum has a vast library that includes a collection of 19th and 20th century books. We highlight the historical library of the Basurto Hospital and several encyclopedic dictionaries from the 20th century, such as the Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales by Dechambre (100 volumes) and the Diccionario de Ciencias Médicas published in 1821 (38 volumes).
    Contact Name, Title: Anton Erkoreka, Director
    Contact Telephone Number: (34) 946 012 790
    Contact Email Address: a.erkoreka@ehu.es
    Web Site: http://www.ehu.es/en/web/basque-museum-medicine/home
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anatomy, History of Anesthesiology and Anesthesia, History of Dentistry [show all 19]
  3. Organization Type: Archive, Library, Museum
    Address: 140 East 38th Street
    City: New York
    State Or Province: New York
    Zip / Postal Code: 10016
    Country: United States
    Telephone Number: 212-889-1938
    Abstract: From the birth of photography through the modern age, The Burns Archive with over one million historic photographs is best known for providing photographic evidence of forgotten, unseen and disquieting aspects of history. The cornerstone of The Burns Archive is its unparalleled collection of early medical photography, but it is also renowned for its iconic images depicting the darker side of life: Death, Disease, Disaster, Mayhem, Crime, Racism, Revolution and War. Over the past forty years, thousands of publishers, exhibitors, authors, researchers, artists and filmmakers have utilized this unique source of visual documentation. Having produced dozens of books and having curated and contributed to frequent national and international museum and gallery exhibitions, The Burns Archive actively acquires, donates, researches, lectures, exhibits, consults, and shares its rare and unusual photographs and expertise worldwide.
    Holdings: Largest private archive of early medical photography (1847-1960), containing over 70,000 images related to the history of medicine, especially strong in nineteenth century imagery (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, etc). Our library contains hundreds of original journals, especially those related to medical photography, 1865-1930. Several books and articles on various aspects of medical specialties have been published from the collection.
    Contact Name, Title: Elizabeth Burns, Creative & Operations Director
    Contact Telephone Number: 212-889-1938
    Contact Email Address: liz@burnsarchive.com
    Web Site: http://www.burnsarchive.com
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Alternative Medicine, History of Anatomy, History of Anesthesiology and Anesthesia [show all 50]
  4. Organization Type: Museum
    Address: Western University Lawson Hall, 2nd floor Department of History
    City: London
    State Or Province: Ontario
    Zip / Postal Code: N6A 5B8
    Country: Canada
    Telephone Number: 519-661-2111
    Abstract: The Medical Artifact Collection at Western contains over 1200 artifacts, representing the practice and teaching of health and medicine in southwestern Ontario. In 2004, Professors Shelley McKellar and Michelle Hamilton re-developed the collection to become a more viable teaching and research collection for university students and community researchers interested in material culture, object study, regional practices as well as any number of themes in the history of health and medicine. It is not a museum open to the public, but the collection can be viewed online at <a href="http://www.medicalhistory.uwo.ca/" > http://www.medicalhistory.uwo.ca/ </a>. We are happy to facilitate requests from researchers interested in visiting the collection.
    Holdings: Originating with the Faculty of Medicine at Western in the late nineteenth century, our collection includes a range of objects related to cardiology, opthalmology, dentistry, pharmacology, surgery, homeopathy, obstretrics, phlebotomy, veterinary and military medicine, microscopy, anatomy, and alternative medicine from the late eighteenth to late twentieth centuries. Visit our exhibits in Lawson Hall, or explore our website to learn more about our collection.
    Contact Name, Title: Prof Shelley Mckellar, The Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine
    Contact Telephone Number: 519-661-2111
    Contact Email Address: smckell@uwo.ca
    Web Site: http://www.medicalhistory.uwo.ca/
    Collection Subject Strengths: History of Alternative Medicine, History of Anatomy, History of Dentistry [show all 21]