Countway Library

Cultivating and advancing education, research, scholarship, and professional growth in the health and biomedical sciences.

Important changes effective July 1, 2025

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A collection of children's and young adult books featuring diverse characters and stories related to experiences of health and illness.

A collection dedicated to supporting the HMS Arts and Humanities Initiative and its mission.

This collection highlights a recent and growing field, graphic medicine, that explores health topics through comics.

September 26, 2025

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce the digitization of E. A. Codman's Alb…

September 3, 2025

It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Dr. David Satin, who served as the visionary…

August 19, 2025

The Center for the History of Medicine has recently added new items to the catalog.

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