Online Resources
- History of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) and HematologyIncludes "Legends in Hematology" short biogrphies on American hematologists and "Fifty years in Hematology"
Extended Resource
BLOOD AT WORK.
Special Report by Stanford University
Baumanometer: instrument for measuring
pressure manufactured by W.M. Baum Co.
Inc. New York. 20th cent.
Biographies
- Bethune, Norman(1890-1939), Canadian surgeon. First to use a mobile blood bank to the battlefield during the Chinese revolution.
- Duffin, Jackie(b. 1950), Canadian medical historian and hematologist.
- Dussault, Jean(1941-2003), Canadian medical researcherDr. Dussault’s simple test on a heel prick blood sample detects congenital hypothyroidism in newborns. Early treatment thus avoid mental retardation.
- Klein, Edmund(1922-1999), American dermatologistDeveloped a technique that allowed the separation of whole human blood into its components, greatly increasing the efficiency of blood transfusion.
- Mustard, J. Fraser(1927-2011), Canadian medical researcher, founder of McMaster Medical School.Groundbreaking research on the role of platelets in the coagulation of blood, and the means by which this process could be controlled.
Online resources for the history of medicine in general
- American National Biography OnlineWonderful resource for biographies of Americans.
- Archival resources in CanadaA list of websites for medical archives in Canada
- Canadian Medical Hall of FameBiographies of our very best in medicine and health care.
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography OnlineWonderful resource for all aspects of Canadian history through biographies.
- Early Canadiana onlineA huge collection of Canadian publications digitized. Books, journals, newspapers and government documents all keyword searchable.
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