| IESR Identifier |
1258121797-28792 |
| Title |
Deaddocs : a Bibliographical Index of Obituaries and Posthumous Accounts in British Medical Journals and Related Sources, 1750-1850 |
| Description |
This section of the Arts and Humanities Date Service (AHDS) provides access to a bibliographic index of obituaries and posthumous accounts in British Medical Journals and related sources, 1750 - 1850. The index consists of over 10,000 numbered entries and was compiled by J. Loudon as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project based at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford. A detailed introduction is available as a PDF file and includes a list of all the journals include in the research. The data can only be downloaded as a ZIP file after registration with the AHDS website. The database is available as a large Access File (4.9MB). The aim of Deaddocs: a bibliographical index is to provide information and references for medical and other historians, as well as for researchers in local and family history of medical practitioners who died between 1750 and 1850. Deaddocs was originally planned to be one of the research publications of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. The aim of the Unit's research publications was "to make available in an inexpensive form, bibliographical, documentary and research aids in fields relating to the history of medicine". The resulting index was so large that paper publication became out of the question. Its aim was to provide brief biographical details in a standardized form. There is space for up to seven references which are coded to give some indication of their length and importance. The index is more fully described in the study's documentation.
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| Location
1 |
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/collection.htm?uri=hist-4996-1
(webpage)
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| Access Control
1 |
password |
| Location
2 |
http://ahds.ac.uk/srvc-oai/provider
(oai-pmh)
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| Access Control
2 |
none |
| Subject (Local) |
Historical & philosophical studies |
| Item Type |
Text |
| Temporal Coverage |
1750-01/1850-12 |
| Contents Date |
2004-08-04/2004-08-31 |
| Organization |
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University |
| Contributor |
JISC Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory (DRAI) |
