Annotated Bibliography

• Fenster, JM. Ether Day. HarperCollins. New York, 2001.

  • Thorough text on the advent of anesthesia in America.

• Garrison, FH. An Introduction to the History of Medicine. 4th Ed. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1965.

  • Classic text on the history of medicine.

• Julius, CM. History of Medicine: The Metamorphosis of Scientific medicine in the Ever-Present Past. Am J Med Sci, 318(3) p.171. LW&W. Philadelphia, 1999.

  • Good short survey article on the history of medicine.

• National Institutes of Health – National Library of Medicine. Image Library. www.nih.gov/nlm

  • Excellent source for medical history images. The NLM homepage has several excellent online exhibits on the history of medicine.

• Porter, R. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. W.W. Norton & Co. New York, 1997.

  • Recent text which describes the social history of primarily Western medicine.