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PubMed is the largest bibliographic database in medicine. In its vast collection, you cannot only find current research, but also bibliographic data of older medical literature, which can be of interest for historians. Which time period is covered? PubMed provides reliable medical articles dating back to 1946. Older articles are occasionally updated. For the period […]

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There is an increasing demand on digitized images and documents on the history of medicine. The Wellcome Library in London holds one of the largest collections on medical history worldwide. A large amount of books, manuscripts, images, historical films and audio files have already been digitized and are available free of charge in the Wellcome […]

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The corona crisis falls in the middle of the WHO’ s Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. With the publication of these interviews taken before the Covid-19 outbreak, we would like to express our gratitude and recognition for the nurses’ vital work. Corinne Steinbrüchel-Boesch is a nursing expert APN in the Department of Geriatric […]

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Iris Ludwig, who holds a degree in nursing and educational science, was a vocational school teacher and expert on nursing didactics for many years. She was instrumental in the introduction of innovative teaching methods such as skills-labs and Problem Based Learning in Switzerland. From 1996 to 2006, she founded and managed the first master’s program […]

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Talks with Iris Ludwig and Iren Bischofberger The World Health Organization WHO has designated 2020 the «Year of the Nurse and Midwife» in honor of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. (1). Nurses and midwives account for nearly half of the global health workforce. It is about time for an international focus on their […]

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At the end of the 18th century and in the first half of the 19th century, the canton of Appenzell was the preferred destination for whey cures. In spring and summer, Gais, Weissbad, Gonten, Heiden and other villages offered spa guests drinking cures with pure goat and herbal whey. Such cures were particularly recommended against […]

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Until well into the 20th century, stays in a health resort were also common for children. They spent weeks or months separated from their parents. Jörg Zemp, now 65, remembers his stay at the Theresia children’s Kurhaus in Unterägeri. Jörg Zemp was interviewed by Ursula Reis, subject specialist for medical history at the Main Library […]

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Prof. Dr. Flurin Condrau is a medical historian at the University of Zurich. He wrote his dissertation on the social history of tuberculosis sanatoriums and has since published on various aspects of the history of tuberculosis. Prof. Dr. Flurin Condrau was interviewed by Ursula Reis, subject specialist for medical history at the Main Library – […]

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Open-air treatment in a luxury sanatoriumFor decades, sanatorium treatment in mountain climates was regarded as the standard therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis. In Davos, the physician Alexander Spengler began to offer altitude therapies in the 1860s. Within a few years, the mountain village developed into a flourishing health resort. Luxury sanatoriums – such as those described […]

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The cultural anthropologist and medical historian Prof. Dr. Eberhard Wolff is a research assistant in Popular Cultures at the University of Zurich. In 2010 he curated the exhibition “Zauberberge: die Schweiz als Kraftraum und Sanatorium” at the Landesmuseum in Zurich. Ursula Reis, subject specialist for history in medicine in the Main Library – Medicine Careum, […]

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