Guide for Finding History of Medicine Citations in the Database History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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What is History of Science, Technology and Medicine?

This database includes bibliographical citations for books, journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in the history of science, technology and medicine. It indexes a much broader array of historical literature than PubMed but it does not significantly index medical and scientific journals. It includes the entries from the Isis Current Biography (History of Science Society) since 1975, from Current Work in the History of Medicine (Wellcome Library for the History and Public Understanding of Medicine) since 1991, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Society for the History of Technology), and Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza. Access to HSTM is purchased by the Yale University Library and requires a Yale IP address, PPP access, or a proxy server or VPN account. The search screen is similar to that used for Eureka (RLIN). To determine if Yale owns an item, click on the associated SFX link.SFX button.

How to get to History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

From the Medical Library home page, choose All Major Resources A-Z, and then choose History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Search by Author

Select author and enter the name in the format, last name, first name (see example on the search page). For example, enter musto, d for citations by Yale Professor David F. Musto.

Click on Search

You will see a list of headings. Click on all those that might be the desired name (there may more than one variant).

Click on List, Brief, or Full. List provides a quick browsable list of titles. You can then select those of interest and click on Brief or Full. Brief provides the basic bibliographical information. Full includes the database from which the entry came and the indexing terms.

Search by Title

Select Title. Enter the beginning of the title omitting initial articles, e.g., Gospel of Germs

Articles about a person

Treat the name as though it were a subject. Select Subject Word and enter last name, first name or initial, e.g., cushing, harvey
You will get an index of names. Choose the correct entries (there may be variants).

Search by Subjects

Search by Subject Word or Keyword. You can enter more than one term. For example, you can enter tuberculosis france to get sources on the history of tuberculosis in France.

Advanced search

Advanced Search lets you search two indexes at once. It is useful when you have a poor citation and are looking for a full citation. For example, you can enter an author's last name in the first box and a title word in the second, e.g., rogers as author word and flies as title word.

Printing, Dowloading, E-mailing

Select items of interest by clicking on the box before the author's name and Brief or Full format. You can print your list directly by selecting Print under the File menu. If you select the Print link on the results page, you will get a plain text version. You then can save to a disk by using Save As under the File menu. Or you can select E-mail on the results page to e-mail the citations to yourself or someone else.