The Medical Heritage Library partners worked together during June and July 2009 to identify collection strengths and complementary subject areas for digitization. Works selected for scanning include such topics such as anesthesia, popular medicine and homeopathy, medical jurisprudence and general public health, with a core focus on the intersection of medicine and society. In the past year some 7,498 items have been uploaded to the Internet Archive, and in the upcoming year readers may expect to enjoy newly digitized public-domain titles in the following subject areas:
- Anatomy
- Anesthesia
- Biography (Physician travels)
- Cholera
- Climatology, Geography of Disease
- Cookbooks
- Dentistry
- Directories
- Early Americana (1607 – 1820)
- Epilepsies
- General Public Health
- Health Resorts
- Homeopathy
- Hydrotherapy
- Immunology
- Later Americana (1821 – 1860)
- Medical Jurisprudence
- Military Medicine
- New England (esp. Connecticut)
- Nursing
- Obstetrics
- Pamphlets (mixed topics)
- Parasitology
- Pathology
- Pharmacology, Pharmacy, Materia Medica
- Physiology
- Plastic Surgery
- Popular Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Schools & Colleges
- Serial Government Documents (U.S.)
- Serial Reports of Hospitals
- Smallpox (Vaccination, Inoculation)
- Special Systems (General)
- Surgery
- Therapeutics (General)
- Tobacco
- Tuberculosis
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