History of Medicine, Healthcare, and Disease

Search finding aids for any or all of these collections:

* The Fales Library & Special Collections
* The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
* New York University Archives
* New-York Historical Society

Holdings of the NY Academy of Medicine and provides access to the NY Academy of Medicine "Grey Literature Report," a bimonthly alerting service.

Click the "Print Resources" tab to access the HSL catalog

Over 1.2 million catalog records for books, audiovisuals, journals, computer files, and other materials in the National Library of Medicine's collections

Collections of books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day.

Search for books and more in libraries in the U.S. and around the world. Indicates when NYU Libraries holds a copy of a book and shows you nearby libraries with holdings.

Scroll to How to Search books and Journals using LocatorPlus. Material in the collection covers every area of the history of medicine and the health sciences in the United States and Europe, and substantial collections of Latin American and Asian publications.

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Personal Papers & Manuscripts
Columbia University Medical Center Archives Digital Collections: History of Columbia University Medical Center
Auchincloss Florence Nightingale Collection
Freud Library
Hyman Collection in the History of Anesthesiology
Photographs & Prints
Rare Books and Journals
Jerome Webster Library of Plastic Surgery

Historical records and images from the archives of the NYU Medical Center and NYU School of Medicine, as well as records of institutions that have merged with the School or Medical Center, including the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital (links to finding aids for Bellevue Medical College and Bellevue School of Nursing)

A directory, maintained by the Medical Library Association

Personal and professional papers of nursing leaders, schools of nursing records, public health and professional organizations, and early textbooks.

Describes contents of correspondence, programs, and publications of this pioneer for black nurses.

Describes the modern manuscript collections concerning Nursing, Midwifery and Obstetrics found in the History of Medicine Division. Collections include lecture notes on midwifery, records of nursing schools and associations, and the correspondence and personal papers of persons involved in the fields of Nursing and Midwifery. Persons mentioned include Francis Henry Ramsbotham and James Young Simpson. Majority are dated from the 19th and 20th centuries, with several from the 18th century.