Purpose

The purpose of this website is to provide helpful resources for health care students and educators as well as health promotion resources for members of the global community.

 

NURSING HISTORY RESOURCES

American Association of the History of Nursing: http://www.aahn.org/index.html

Nightingale Portraits: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/PictDisplay/Nightingale.html

Florence Nightingale Museum Trust: http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
Built on the site of St. Thomas Hospital this museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Nightingale. Open Tuesday - Sunday.
2 Lambeth Palace Road
London SE1, 7EW UK
Phone: 00 44 171 620 0374
Fax: 00 44 171 928 1760

History of Medicine On-line: http://www.priory.com/homol.htm
An on-line journal devoted to the history of medicine.

On-Line Images from the History of Medicine: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/index.html 
This system provides access to nearly 60,000 images (reproducing photographs, artwork, and printed texts) drawn from the extensive collection of the History of Medicine Division at the US National Library of Medicine. This database is searchable; this is a very busy website.

Schlesinger Library: http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles
Archive and women's history center.

National Women's History Project: http://www.nwhp.org/
These web sites provide links to many resources on Women's History