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Exploring the Medical Heritage Library: A Digital Gateway to Health History

The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a rich, content-centered digital community dedicated to supporting research, education, and discourse in the history of medicine. With over 58,000 curated digital items, including texts, audio-visual materials, journals, and more, the MHL facilitates understanding of past and present health and society. Access both digital and non-digital holdings from contributing institutions, and engage with a diverse body of materials primarily in English, alongside other languages. Join us in exploring the intersection of medical practice and human health.

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Exploring the Medical Heritage Library: A Digital Gateway to Health History

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  1. Medical Heritage Library

  2. Mission • Content-centered digital community • Supporting research, education, dialog • History of medicine contributing to understanding of past and present health and society • Body of curated digital materials • Access point to digital and non-digital holdings of contributing institutions • Facilitates discourse around medical practice, human health

  3. Scope of the MHL • 58,000+ items • Text, audio-visual, audio • Journals, monographs, pamphlets, ephemera, video • 1502-2000s • Primarily in English, but also French, German, Spanish, Latin, Portuguese...

  4. Scope

  5. Scope

  6. Participation Levels • Principal contributor: any institution that dedicates resources or staff time to achieve MHL goals and objectives. • Content contributor: any institution that adds digitized materials to the MHL. • Contributor: any institution that publicizes the MHL and promotes its use and development.

  7. Searchability: Internet Archive

  8. Searchability: MHL Tool

  9. How to Find the MHL • Website: www.medicalheritage.org/ From there, link to any of these: • Internet Archive: archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary • Twitter: twitter.com/MedicalHeritage • Facebook: www.facebook.com/medicalheritagelibrary • Email: medicalheritage@gmail.com • Search: http://mhl.countway.harvard.edu/search

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