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Books at UIUC

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Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 by Peter Baldwin
Call Number: 614.44 B193c
ISBN: 0521642884
Publication Date: 1999-08-19
Cultural Approaches to the History of Medicine by Cornelie Usborne; Willem de Blécourt (Editor)
Call Number: Online Resource
ISBN: 023028759X
Publication Date: 2003-12-18
Epidemics and the Modern World by Mitchell L. Hammond
Call Number: Online Resource
ISBN: 9781487593766
Publication Date: 2020
The Germ of an Idea by Margaret DeLacy
Call Number: 610.941 D371g
ISBN: 9781137575272
Publication Date: 2016-01-20
Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe by Claire L. Carlin
Call Number: Online Resource
ISBN: 9780230522619
Publication Date: 2005-10-14
An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine by Keir Waddington
Call Number: 610.94 W117i
ISBN: 1403946922
Publication Date: 2011-11-29
Routledge History of Disease by Mark Jackson (Editor)
Call Number: Online Resource
ISBN: 9781787856158
Publication Date: 2017

Research Databases

Daily Life Through History This link opens in a new window
A collection of primary documents, reference works, monographs, images, maps, illustrations, and time lines depicting essential activities of daily life across the globe and throughout history.
Early European Books Collection II This link opens in a new window
Early European Books Collection II contains early printed volumes from the
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (the National Central Library of Florence). The selection of works focuses on four collections of particular historic and bibliographic importance within the library’s holdings from this period: The Nencini Aldine Collection, Marginalia, Incunabula, and Sacred Representations.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
Gale Primary Sources cross-search interface provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions. It contains a wide range of content including monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.
This database provides access to the: 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspaper Collection, 19th Century UK Periodicals, American Historical Periodicals, Archives Unbound, Associated Press Collections Online, Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture, British Library Newspapers, Daily Mail Historical Archive (1896-2004), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Financial Times Historical Archive, Indigenous Peoples: North America, International Herald Tribune Historical Archive (1887-2013), Liberty Magazine Historical Archive (1924-1950), 19th Century Collections Online, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, Picture Post Historical Archive, Punch Historical Archive (1841-1992), Sabin Americana (1500-1926), Smithsonian Collections Online, The Economist Historical Archive, The Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003), The Independent Digital Archive, The Listener Historical Archive (1929-1991), The Making of Modern Law (multiple), The Making of the Modern World, The Sunday Times Digital Archive (1822-2006), The Telegraph Historical Archive (1855-2000), The Times Digital Archive, The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (1902-2013), U.S. Declassified Documents Online and U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs (1832-1978).
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. Provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. Limited to 6 users at a time.

Access World News This link opens in a new window
Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper

Historical Newspapers Search
Provided through the History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library.

Eighteenth Century Journals This link opens in a new window
Portal to newspapers and periodicals c1685-1835 brings together rare journals printed between c1685 and 1835, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life. Many are ephemeral, lasting only for a handful of issues, others run for several years. Topics include: the writings of Sir Isaac Newton; the French and American Revolutions; colonial life, provincial and rural affairs, reviews of literature, the theater, and fashion throughout Europe; the origins and rise of Romanticism; political debates; gender, religion, influence of the press, and coffee house gossip and discussion.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Included are journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses. The current collection, Ethnic NewsWatch™, covers 1990-present, and the historical collection, Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, spans 1959-1989. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Native People.
World Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new window
World Newspaper Archive chronicles the history and politics of diverse peoples and cultures during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This expanding online resource was created in partnership between Readex, a division of NewsBank, and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)-one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories-and includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America, Slavic and East Europe, South Asia and other regions.

CABI Global Health This link opens in a new window
Global in scope, coverage includes agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, plant sciences, mycology and parasitology, food science, human health and nutrition. CAB Abstracts offers extensive coverage of journal and nonjournal literature from around the world including annual reports, general reports, books, conference proceedings, field notes and more. Over 7 million records with coverage dating back to 1973. Includes over 170,000 full-text journal articles and indexing for over 10,000 academic journals, books, conference proceedings and reports.
Health and Society in Video This link opens in a new window
Health and Society in Video defines and explores today's latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society. This resource includes documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews
History of Science, Technology & Medicine This link opens in a new window
History of Science, Technology and Medicine reflects the influences these fields have had on society and culture throughout time, from prehistory to the present. Updated on a monthly basis, this essential database includes records of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, serials, maps and other related materials.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1952 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Major areas of coverage include culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; women's studies.
Medical Services and Warfare This link opens in a new window
The resource tells the story of medical advances during warfare from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the influenza epidemic in 1918 and the discovery of penicillin in 1927. The wealth of documents cover multiple conflicts as well as interwar developments from a range of perspectives.

Explore multiple perspectives on the history of injury, treatment and disease on the front line. Chart scientific advances through hospital records, medical reports and first-hand accounts, and discover the evidence of how war shaped medical practice across the centuries.

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis. The University of Illinois has access to the following JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-XV, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Business IV, Global Plants, Ireland, and Life Sciences.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Web of Science (Core Collection) This link opens in a new window
Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Non-UIUC Links and Resources

Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
A collaboration of universities, libraries, and museums. Visit the Collections page to search for items of interest.
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
Harvard Library Digital Collections. Offers digitized manuscripts, books, pamphlets, etc. from a global perspective primarily in English, French, and German.
E-Codices, University of Fribourg
Virtual manuscript library offering access to medieval and early modern manuscripts from across Switzerland.
Europeana
Provides access to books, artwork, music, and other artifacts from European cultural institutions.
HathiTrust Digital Library
Provides access to millions of digitized items held by a collaboration of academic and research libraries.
U.S. National Library of Medicine Digital Collections
Includes images and documents relevant to the history of medicine in Europe.
Wellcome Library Digital Collections
Digitized material available from a world hub for the study of medical history.
World Digital Library
Digitized primary sources from around the world, made available through a partnership between the Library of Congress, UNESCO, and various cultural institutions. Includes materials in multiple languages.

Organizations

World Health Organization (WHO): Europe Regional Office
Visit this site for publications, databases, news, and more. Country-specific information available.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Website provides data, publications, news, and other research and learning tools.

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