UKMHL: visualising medical historyPeter Findlay, UK medical heritage library event

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UK Medical Heritage Library collections

What’s on offer

»10 highly searchable collections › Bristol: Bristol and Bath, two important centres of healing in the

nineteenth century and earlier reflected in the inclusion of the spas collection

› Glasgow: Hunterian Collection strong in anatomy, obstetrics and gynaecology

› King’s College London: St Thomas’ Hospital (founded 1551), Guy’s Hospital (founded 1726) and King’s College Hospital (founded 1840)

› LSHTM: outlining the history of tropical medicine and public health

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»10 highly searchable collections › Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Scientific medicine

Chadwick, Christison, Hahneman, Hughes-Bennett, Koch, Lister, Pasteur, Simpson, Syme, Tuke and Virchow

› Royal College of Physicians of London: some of the earliest works by women studying to become physicians but also diverse languages: French, German, Latin, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch and Tamil

› Royal College of Surgeons of England: 21,800 pamphlets and tracts; material to support research into the beginnings of anaesthesia, antisepsis, microbiology, forensic medicine, demography and epidemiology

What’s on offer

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What’s on offer

»10 highly searchable collections › University of Leeds: large cookery collection; works on food

production, on food’s medicinal uses, on gardening and other food-related topics

› UCL: ophthalmology, the eye and its diseases, and their treatment including surgery

› Wellcome: 25,000 texts; strong in history of genetics and mental healthcare

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Developing a toolset

» Visualisations – why these ones?» Beyond the visualisations

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Peter Findlay

Designing a collaborative service for the purchasing of digital archival collections

Peter.Findlay@jisc.ac.uk