A Major New On-Line Resource
For The History of Medicine
The Wellcome Library
is pleased to announce that the Medical Archives and Manuscripts Survey
(MAMS) will go on-line on April 2nd 2001. MAMS provides a comprehensive
and detailed guide to primary records for the history of medicine and
health-care held in archives and libraries in greater London, for the
period from 1600 to the mid-20th century. Survey reports can be browsed
and searched at http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/mams.
The material recorded
is broad in its scope. It includes papers generated by doctors and hospitals,
both state and private; local authorities; businesses, from pharmaceuticals
to quackery; and individual patients. "Medical history" has been interpreted
widely: as well as the records of treatment and research, the survey records
material on health-related matters such as nutrition, water supply and
sewage disposal, the disposal of the dead and the health implications
of housing; on alternative and unorthodox medicine; on anthropology relating
to medical issues; and a range of related topics.
The survey of
London represents stage one of the MAMS project. Coverage will be extended
nationwide in stage two.
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