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]
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