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The reproduction, use, or downloading of images is governed by copyright law.  Please check the policies on each site.  Some images may be in the public domain and may be used without permission, while other images are copyright protected and require that you ask permission from the copyright holder before downloading, reproducing, or using in any way.  Some images may be freely used while others may require a registration or user fee.  Some images may only permit you to link to their site.

 

 

images.MD

****Available on-campus only to MCPHS users!****

A database of over 50,000 high-quality medical images spanning the entire spectrum of internal medicine; Derived from Current Medicine’s series of illustrated atlases; Images are accompanied by informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts.

Click here for more information

 

 

AnatLine

http://anatline.nlm.nih.gov/Anatline/index.html

A database of gross anatomy images of the human body; Developed and provided by the NLM.

 

Anatomy: The Foundation of Medicine:  From Aristotle to Early Twentieth Century Wall Charts

http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/anatomical/index.html

From the Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia.

 

Catalog of Clinical Images

http://meded.ucsd.edu/clinicalimg/

“A web-based collection of physical examination findings“

UCSD, University of California, San Diego.

 

Hardin-MD:  Medical Picture Gallery

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/

An extensive list of web sites containing medical images; from Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa.

 

Health Education Assets Library  (HEAL)

http://www.healcentral.org/

“The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners.”

 

HONmedia

http://www.hon.ch/HONmedia/

A repository of medical images and videos provided by the Health on the Net (HON) Foundation.  HON is a non-profit non-government organization that has developed a Code of Conduct for medical and health web sites that addresses the reliability and credibility of the information.

 

Images from the History of Medicine   (IHM)

http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/gw_44_3/chameleon?skin=nlm&lng=en

“The collection includes portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.”

 

Index of Medieval Medical Images

http://digital.library.ucla.edu/immi/      

From the UCLA Digital Library.    

 

MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations

http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/mackinney/index.html

Over 1000 medical illustrations from the Middle Ages digitized from slides collected by medievalist scholar Loren C. MacKinney.

 

Medical Images and Illustrations

http://www.mic.ki.se/MEDIMAGES.html

An extensive list of sites containing medical images; Compiled and maintained by the Karolinska Institute.

 

Medical Images: Duke University Medical Center Library

http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/subject/medimages

A directory of links to image sites according to medical specialty.

 

Medical Images on the Web

http://www.unmc.edu/library/reference/medimage.html

A list of medical image sites compiled by the McGoogan Library of Medicine, University of Nebraska  Medical Center.

 

NCI Visuals Online

http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/

Contains images from the National Cancer Institute.

 

NLM: Online Exhibitions and Digital Projects

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/onlineexhibitions.html

Includes images from projects such as: The Visible Human Project®, Historical Anatomies on the Web, Dream Anatomy and many others.  From the National Library of Medicine.

 

Public Health Image Library  (PHIL)

http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp

Includes photographs, illustrations, & multimedia files.

From the CDC.

 

A Review of Image Search Engines, Feb. 2008

http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchengines.html

 

 

 

06/17/09