Organization Type: Archive, Library Address: 1200 Main St. West City: Hamilton State Or Province: Ontario Zip / Postal Code: L8N 3Z5 Country: Canada Telephone Number: 905-525-9140 Fax Number: 905-528-3733 Abstract: Although the collection includes materials relating to the history of health and medicine throughout world, the emphasis is on the Canadian experience during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Works published about the North American, British and French experience form the bulk of the collection. All items are included in the library catalogue searchable from <a href="http://catalogue.mcmaster.ca/catalogue/" > http://catalogue.mcmaster.ca/catalogue/ </a>. Reference service is available and interlibrary loans of the secondary resource materials only. Digital copies of some primary resources is available. Holdings: The primary resources consist of approximately 2000 items. They include classical texts, family medicine manuals, homeopathic works, annual reports of 19th century psychiatric hospitals, annual reports and publications of government departments,19th century Canadian medical periodicals, posters, public health and patent medicine ephemera. It is a small but interesting collection. Contact Name, Title: Anne Mckeage, History of Health and Medicine Librarian Contact Telephone Number: 905-525-9140 x 22828 Contact Email Address: mckeage@mcmaster.ca Web Site: https://medhumanities.mcmaster.ca/index/mcmaster-library-collections/library-collections Collection Subject Strengths: History of Homeopathy, History of Medicine, History of Public Health [show all 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]
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