Special Collections includes materials in all formats on the history of the health sciences and ancillary disciplines, the East Asian Collection of health-related materials in Asian languages, and the University Archives, which collects administrative records and materials on the history and development of the UCSF campus (an all health sciences campus). SERVICES: reference, interlibrary loan; bibliographic consultation and instruction; photography and photocopying: request information on charges. On-site reference service: Monday-Tuesday, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. by appointment only.

For information on access to the collection or other reference related questions, please contact staff at the following URL:
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact.

Holdings:

Special Collections encompasses a rare book collection (47,000 volumes) that includes incunabula (55 titles); early printed works (16th to 19th centuries); and modern secondary works; manuscripts (primarily modern) and papers of individuals; historical records of UCSF hospitals; administrative records of regional health institutions; photographs; slides; motion picture films and videotapes; oral histories; pamphlets; and artifacts. Specific subject emphases include anatomy and physiology; dentistry; pharmacy; nursing; obstetrics and gynecology; forensic medicine and toxicology; high altitude physiology; cholera and communicable diseases; occupational medicine; homeopathy; alternative medicine; California; Sir William Osler and his circle (Cushing, Garrison, etc.); tuberculosis; women in medicine; anesthesiology; smallpox in Mexico; managed care; antivivisection; AIDS; biotechnology; tobacco control. The East Asian collection numbers some 14,000 volumes, 400 manuscripts, and 400 prints, dating from 16th to the 20th century.

[+] Oral History Interviewees List

1. Abrams, Donald

2. Aird, Robert

3. Althouse, Harry

4. Amman, Arthur

5. Andrews, Richard

6. Bennett, Leslie

7. Blaisdell, F

8. Bolan, Robert

9. Bowman, Karl

10. Boyer, Herbert

11. Campbell, James

12. Carr, Gary

13. Clements, John

14. Conant, Marcus

15. Crede, Robert

16. DeLorimier, Alfred

17. Dritz, Selma

18. Dunphy, J

19. Ebert, Paul

20. Fishman, Robert

21. Follansbee, Stephen

22. Francis, Donald

23. Ganong, W

24. Gee, Gayling

25. Greenspan, Deborah

26. Greenspan, John

27. Groundwater, James

28. Helquist, Michael

29. Hume, Portia

30. Johnson, Allen

31. Jones, Diane

32. Kerr, Clark

33. Leake, Chauncey

34. Levy, Jay

35. Lewis, Angie

36. Lusby, Grace

37. Martin, Jeannee

38. Masouredis, Serafeim

39. Meyer, Morton

40. Meyer, Karl

41. Miller, Diane

42. Morrison, Clifford

43. Moss, Andrew

44. Najarian, John

45. O'Malley, Paul

46. Owen, William

47. Perkins, Herbert

48. Petrakis, Nicholas

49. Porter, Langley

50. Reimers, Niels

51. Roe, Benson

52. Rutter, William

53. Sampson, John

54. Sande, Merle

55. Schietinger, Helen

56. Schmid, Rudi

57. Schrock, Theodore

58. Silen, William

59. Silverman, Mervyn

60. Smith, L

61. Sooy, Francis

62. Thygeson, Phillips

63. Volberding, Paul

64. Watts, Malcolm

65. Winkelstein, Warren

66. Wofsy, Constance

67. Wood, George

68. Ziegler, John

Subject Strengths:

History of Alternative Medicine; History of Anatomy; History of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases; History of Forensic Medicine; History of Gynecology and Obstetrics; History of Homeopathy; History of Hospitals; History of Nursing; History of Pharmacology and Pharmacy; History of Physiology; History of Preventive or Occupational Medicine; History of Public Health; History of Stomatology; History of Toxicology

Last Updated:

03 May 2019