HIST 350: History of Western Medicine

A selective list of individual reference resources to explore events, individuals, and conditions. Entries have references and/or additional suggested readings. 

• Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence: From Ancient Times to the Present  (Facts on File, 2008)
• Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues (Greenwood, 2008) 
• Oxford encyclopedia of the history of American science, medicine, and technology (Oxford, 2014)
• Gale encyclopedia of public health (Gale, 2013)
• Gale encyclopedia of alternative medicine (Gale, 2014) 
• Gale encyclopedia of medicine (5th ed. Gale, 2015)
• Encyclopedia of Health Services Research (Sage, 2009)

Medical Dictionaries & Thesauruses (historical and current)

• Concise medical dictionary (10th ed. Oxford, 2020)
• Thesaurus of Medical Word Roots (Scarecrow, 2013)
• Words of Medicine : Sources, Meanings, and Delights (C.C. Thomas, 2000)
• Medical dictionary: containing an explanation of the terms in surgery, medicine, midwifery, anatomy, chemistry, &c.(2nd ed. Highley, 1813) [from HathiTrust]
• Lexicon medicum; or, Medical dictionary. By Robert Hooper (2nd American ed. NY, 1824)  [from HathiTrust]

Reference/Research Databases [multiple titles: background information, biography, geography, additional references]