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History of Health Sciences

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  • Newspapers
Newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)
Full text of popular magazines
Anthropology and archaeology
  • Ebooks
  • Newspapers
Full text access to historical books, imprints, newspapers, and government publications. Collections include digital reproductions with searchable full text.
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  • Audio
Primary source materials from libraries and museums throughout California
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Collection of historical maps
  • Newspapers
Newspaper archive
  • Ebooks
Digital reproductions of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700.
Citations, with selected abstracts, of the world's economic literature.
Pre-1700 and Eighteenth Century imprints.
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HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository that provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
  • Newspapers
Newspaper index
  • Statistics
Statistical data on quantifiable aspects of U.S. history, including agriculture, population, the economy, government, welfare, and work. Includes Contextual essays by expert scholars 
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National Library of Medicine collection that illustrates the social and historical aspects of the health sciences
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Historical citations to Surgeon-General's Library, 1880-1961.
Full-text archive for more than 360 of the top scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities and arts. Coverage of some journals dates back to the nineteenth century. Does not include the most recent years (3-10 years) of publication.
  • Newspapers
Full-text access to historical editions of the LA Times from 1881-1985.
  • Newspapers
Newspaper content from the 19th Century
Doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
  • Newspapers
Includes major U.S. cities historical newspapers from 1849 - 2012
UCSF-customized version of PubMed requires off campus users to log in with MyAccess for full text access. Good starting point for health sciences research including nursing, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy.
Social work, human services, and related areas.
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These prints provide a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West. 
  • Newspapers
Full-text access to historical editions of the Wall Street Journal. Covers from 1889-1989.
Science and social science citation indexes.
Track down dissertations published prior to 1861 (when Dissertations and Theses coverage begins.) Look for items that may not be in Dissertations and Theses.
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