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Medical Archives and Manuscripts on-line (United Kingdom)



I attach an announcement of a new service to be launched in the UK next
week, which should be of interest to archivists working in the medical
history field.  Apologies for any cross-posting.
Dr. Christopher Hilton
Senior Assistant Archivist, Department of Archives and Manuscripts
Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine
The Wellcome Trust
183 Euston Road
LONDON NW1 2BE
Tel.: (+44) 020 7611 8481

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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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