Archive for Medical History
| Archive for Medical History - AfM -
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| Archive type | Special archive |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 23 '17 " N , 8 ° 32' 49" E |
| place | Zurich |
| Visitor address | Winterthurerstrasse 30 8006 Zurich |
| founding | 2003 |
| ISIL | CH-001766-2 |
| carrier | University of Zurich |
| Website | www.ibme.uzh.ch |
The Archive for Medical History of the University of Zurich was founded in 2003 as part of the Medical History Institute of the University of Zurich . Since 2014 it has been organizationally assigned to the newly founded Institute for Biomedical Ethics and Medical History. The archive sees itself as a research institution and has the task of properly storing documents and collections with medical-historical content for the purpose of documentation and making them accessible for scientific research.
history
The Medical History Institute of the University of Zurich, founded in 1951, owes its rich historical holdings to a large extent to the collecting zeal of the Zurich doctor Gustav Adolf Wehrli, who began to compile an extensive medical history object and document collection in the 1920s. Large parts of this collection were made accessible to the public in the Medical History Museum of the University of Zurich from 1932 . With the establishment of the Medical History Institute, a library was built, which was expanded in 1958 by a large part of the scientific library of the medical historian Henry E. Sigerist . In 2003 the library holdings were redistributed, with a special archive created for the safekeeping and distribution of handwritten and unpublished documents. The archive collection of the former Medical History Institute has since been supplemented by a number of bequests from medical professionals and institutions.
Stocks
The bequests and collections cover the period from the 17th to the 20th century. The focus of the holdings lies between the last third of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. The thematically arranged picture collection goes back to the 16th century. The earlier collections of the 18th and 19th centuries have been grouped thematically. The largest group is made up of the college books and manuscripts . In addition, there are bound medical histories and prescription books in this group . The regional focus is on Zurich and Switzerland . Thematic heavyweights are: psychiatry , neurology and ophthalmology . Newer collection areas are women in medicine and alternative medicine in the broadest sense.
The Archives for Medical History include bequests from Erwin H. Ackerknecht , Max Bircher-Benner , Otfrid Foerster , Auguste Forel , Ludwig Frank , Walter Rudolf Hess , Constantin von Monakow and Henry E. Sigerist.
See also
literature
- Gudrun Kling: Doubly problematic: private medical bequests in the archive of the Medical History Institute of the University of Zurich . In: Heiner Schmitt (ed.): Everything that is right. Archival questions - legal answers . Association of German Archivists, Fulda 2012, ISBN 978-3-9811618-5-4 , p. 189-193 , doi : 10.5167 / uzh-64596 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of bequests from the Archive for Medical History (PDF; 101 kB) .