Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Advisory Board for Medical Specialties. Directory of Medical Specialists. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940-1942.

American Board of Medical Specialties. Directory of Medical Specialists.Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1974/75-1991/92.

American Medical Association. Directory of Physicians in the United States, 33rd ed. Chicago: Division of Survey and Data Resources, 1992.

American Medical Directory. Chicago: American Medical Association, 1906-1990.

Atkinson, William B. The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States. Philadelphia, Robson, 1878.

Baily, H, Bishop, W.J. Notable Names in Medicine and Surgery. 4th ed. London: H.K. Lewis; 1983.

Bibliography of the History of Medicine. Washington, DC: National Library of Medicine, 1964-1993.

Bynum, W.F., E.J. Browne, and Roy Porter, eds. Dictionary of the History of Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Dorland, W.A. Newman. Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1957-2000. (Formerly The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1900-1951).

Dunglison, R.A. Dictionary of Medical Science. Philadelphia: Lea, 1833.

Erlen, Jonathan. History of the Health Care Sciences and Health Care, 1700-1980: A Selective Annotated Bibliography. New York : Garland, 1984.

Fox, D.M., Meldrum; M., Rezak I, eds. Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1990.

Fruton, J.S. A Bio-bibliography for the History of the Biochemical Sciences since 1800. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society; 1982.

Gillispie, Charles. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 18 volumes, New York: Scribners, 1970-1990.

Gross, Samuel D., ed., The Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1861.

Jablonski, Stanley, ed. Dictionary of Medical Acronyms & Abbreviations. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, 2001.

________. Illustrated Dictionary of Eponymic Syndromes and Diseases and their Synonyms. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1969.

Kaufman, M., Galishoff, S., Savitt, T.L., eds. Dictionary of American Medical Biographies, 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Kelly, Emerson C. Encyclopedia of Medical Sources. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1948.

Kelly, Howard A. and Walter L. Burrage, eds. Dictionary of American Medical Biography; Lives of Eminent Physicians of the United States and Canada, from the Earliest Times. New York: Appleton, 1928.

Magalini, Sergio. Dictionary of Medical Syndromes. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1997.

Morton, Leslie. A Bibliography of Medical and Biomedical Biography. Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1989.

Polinski, Roth. Family Practice: Medical Subject Dictionary and Research Index With Bibliography. Washington, DC: ABBE Publishers Association of Washington, DC, 1983.

Stedman, Thomas Lathrop. Stedman’s Medical Dictionary. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.

Stone, Richard F., ed. Biography of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons. 1st ed., 1894; 2nd rev. and enl. ed. Indianapolis, IN: Hollenbeck, 1898.

Talbott, John H. A Biographical History of Medicine; Excerpts and Essays on the Men and Their Work. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1970.

Thacher, James. American Medical Biography. 1st ed., 1828; rev. ed. with Intro. and bibliography by Whitfield J. Bell. New York : Da Capo Press ; 1967.

Thomas, Clayton L., ed. Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary. Philadelphia: Davis, 2001.

Watson, Irving A., ed. Physicians and Surgeons of America . . . A Collection of Biographical Sketches of the Regular Medical Profession. Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1896.

Who Was Who in American History -- Science and Technology: A Component of Who's Who in American History. 76 Bicentennial ed. Chicago: Marquis Who’s Who, 1976.

Williams, Stephen. American Medical Biography; or, Memoirs of Eminent Physicians; Embracing Principally Those Who Have Died Since the Publication of Dr. Thacher's Initial Work in 1828 on the same subject. New York: Milford House, 1967.

World Who's Who in Science; A Biographical Dictionary Of Notable Scientists From Antiquity To The Present. Ed. by Allen G. Debus. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1968.