Internet Resources on Tibetan Medicine and Related Topics

Tibetan Medicine, General

http://www.tibetmed.org/links.htm
Links to many useful websites on various aspects of Tibetan medicine.

http://www.ittm.org/
The International Trust for Traditional Medicine, in Kalimpong, India, publishes the journal AyurVijnana, which sometimes includes articles on Tibetan medicine. ITTM has also input many Tibetan medical texts.

http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/medicine-clinics.htm
Tibetan medical clinics and pharmacies around the world (outside Tibet).

http://www.tibetanmedicine.com/html/resource.html
Tibetan medical clinics and pharmacies around the world (outside Tibet).

http://www.conferencerecording.com/newevents/tmc98.htm
Audio recordings from the International Congress on Tibetan Medicine in 1998.

http://www.tibetanmedicine.com/html/article.html
Articles on Tibetan medicine by Eliot Tokar, a NYC-based practitioner of Asian medicine

http://www.tibetan-medicine.org/
Website for the Mentsikhang in New Delhi.

http://www.shangshung.org/
The Shang Shung Institute of Tibetan medicine, in the United States.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indology.html
Internet Resources for Indological Scholarship. Very useful site. The Indology discussion archive (messages back to 1990) is searchable. Also includes an archive of Indic e-texts.

http://www.itmonline.org/arts/startindex.htm
Articles published on various complementary therapies topics, some with reference to Tibetan medicine, by the Institute for Traditional Medicine and Preventive Health Care (ITM). E.g., see articles such as Resource Guide for Tibetan Medicine, Traditional Medicine of Bhutan, Tibetan Herbal Medicine, with examples of treating lung diseases using rhodiola and hippophae, Medicine in the Tibetan Refugee Community, Drepung Gomang, From Tibet to India, and various other essays.

Traditional Pharmacy and Medicinal Substances

http://www.botanicgardens.org/pageinpage/librarylinks.cfm
Denver Botanic Gardens' Library. "One of the premier collections of plant-related resources in the United States. It contains over 25,000 items including books for all ages, rare books, magazines, nursery catalogs, videos, software, slides and the plant records of Denver Botanic Gardens."

http://plants.usda.gov/
U.S. Department of Agriculture's PLANTS Database.

http://www.herbs.org
"Information on the health benefits and safety of herbs and expertise in sustainable botanical resource development... including botanical literature research, publications, herb safety reviews, and Herb Information Packets."

http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html
W3TROPICOS provides access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files.

History of Medicine

http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM). This system provides access to the nearly 60,000 images in the prints and photograph collection of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includ es portraits, pictures of institutions, caricatures, genre scenes, and graphic art in a variety of media, illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine.

http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/histmed/
The University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library History of Medicinewebsite is an excellent resource for research on the history of medicine in general.

http://www.histmed.org/
The AAHM is North America's oldest continuously functioning scholarly organization devoted to the study of all aspects of the history of the health professions, disease, public health, and related subjects. It is comprised of professional historians , practicing health professionals, librarians and archivists in the history of the health sciences, graduate students and students actively seeking professional degrees. Its annual meetings occur each spring and include, over a two and a half day period, a wealth of workshops, plenary sessions, and competitively peer-reviewed scholarly papers.

http://medhist.ac.uk/
MedHist, a guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet, with a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering the history of medicine.

Medical Anthropology

http://people.ucsc.edu/~bobbaq/anthro/med/medanthlinks.htm
Medical Anthropology comprehensive internet resources and related links.

Chinese Medicine

http://www.jcm.co.uk/
The Journal of Chinese Medicine: Professional, English-language journal with articles on Acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, qigong, dietary medicine, and news about Chinese medicine world-wide.

http://www.acupuncture.com/
Comprehensive coverage of traditional and contemporary Chinese medicinal therapies.

http://www.demon.co.uk/acupuncture/ftcm.html
The Foundation for TCM, a British organization of physicians and researchers studying acupuncture

http://www.mic.ki.se/China.html
The History of Traditional Chinese Medicine page of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden's primary medical school. Many interesting links.

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/nakbib.html
Nathan Sivin's "Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Science and Medicine: Works in Western Languages." Nathan Sivin's website is extremely useful, containing many of his articles on the history of medicine in China, bibliographies, and other important reference materials.

General Medicine; Complementary & Alternative Therapies; Miscellaneous Links

http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis5937dee/sources.htm
Various online medical information sources.

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Syllabi/Sexuality/
Women's Studies Database.

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/Syllabi/Sexuality/human-sexuality+gender
Human Sexuality And Gender: a long syllabus, about 65 pages.