Research Guides: Medicine, Health, and Society: Finding Images

Images

Images from the History of Medicine
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) provides online access to over 70,000 digitized images of the approximate 100,000 items from the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Prints and Photographs collection. IHM includes image files of a wide variety of visual media including fine art, photographs, engravings, and posters that illustrate the social and historical aspects of medicine dating from the 15th to 21st century.
Wellcome Images
Thousands of images and centuries of medicine, science, society and culture. Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.
Image Archive of the American Eugenics Movement
Images from the History of the Public Health Service; A Photographic Exhibit

Popular Medicine in America This link opens in a new window
Books, pamphlets, trade cards, and advertising ephemera showing popular remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America, aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals.
Coverage: 1800-1900.

National Library of Medicine Digital Collections
Access to free online resource of biomedical books and still and moving images.