Historia Medicinae - New GWUMC Journal

GWUMC students have published a new online journal for articles on the history of medicine, Historia Medicinae. The journal is student run and has published its inaugural issue. Historia Medicinae will cover "all periods of medical history from classical and ancient medicine to historical developments in modern medicine."

The first issue includes articles on:

• A Desire to Control: Contraception throughout the ages by Megan Evans
• An Open Letter to (Future) Clinician-Historians: On the relevance of the American Association for the History of Medicine by Kristen Ann Ehrenberger
• An Early Hope of Psychopharmacology: Bromide treatment in turn-of-the-twentieth-century psychiatry by Howard Chiang

Historia Medicinae can also be found on the Library's e-journals webpage beginning on Tuesday, April 28.