Research Help
Research Help
Introduction
This guide provides resources and guidance for doing research in the history of science and medicine, using primary and/or secondary sources.
To learn more about UBC's collection of rare books in science and medicine, please see the guide below:
Key Resources
- Summon searchUBC Library's integrated search tool
- National Library of Medicine History of Medicine DivisionNLM's History of Medicine Division collects, preserves, makes available, and interprets for diverse audiences one of the world's richest collections of historical material related to human health and disease.
Background Texts
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science by ISBN: 0195112296Publication Date: 2003-03-27Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries. Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century, the articles cover all disciplines (Biology, Alchemy, Behaviorism), historical periods (the Scientific Revolution, World War II, the Cold War), concepts (Hypothesis, Space and Time, Ether), and methodologies and philosophies (Observation and Experiment, Darwinism).
The Cambridge History of ScienceISBN: 9780521594486Publication Date: 2013-10-07Six Volumes:
Medieval Science
Early Modern Science
Eighteenth-Century Science
Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Modern Life and Earth Sciences
Modern Social Sciences
UBC Sites
- UBC Science and Technology StudiesInformation on graduate program, as well as related undergraduate major in History and Philosophy of Science
- Charles Darwin Letters Online (UBC Library Open Collections)Two collections of letters, written to and by Charles Darwin.