Welcome to the Program in the History of Medicine
at the University of Minnesota!

The Program is dedicated to research and teaching of the intellectual and social history of disease, health care, and medical science in all their aspects. At the Graduate level, we have merged with the Program in the History of Science and Technology to form a joint Program in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.

We offer:

• Graduate work leading to M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
• Undergraduate elective courses and an undergraduate minor
• Historical segments in the Medical School curriculum
• An annual lecture series

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McKnight Land-Grant Professorship 

The Program in the History of Medicine is very pleased to announce that Assistant Professor Dominique Tobbell, author of the recently released Pills, Power, and Policy: The Stuggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and its Consequences (University of California Press, 2012), has been selected as one of six McKnight Land-Grant Professors for 2012-2014. This highly competitive award recognizes recipients for their "potential for important contribution to their field; the degree to which their achievements and ideas demonstrate originality, imagination, and innovation; the significance of their research; and the potential for attracting outstanding students."  

For the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship announcement, see:
http://www.research.umn.edu/advance/land-grant.html#.Tyg2IJh92uR 

We are fortunate to possess excellent research facilities at the University of Minnesota. The Program shares a floor of the Biomedical Library with the Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine which currently holds in excess of 60,000 volumes and has an active acquisitions program. The University also houses important manuscripts and papers in the Social Welfare History Archives, the Immigration History Research Center, and the Charles H. Babbage Institute-Center for the History of Information Technology. Other important sources in medical history in the Twin Cities include the Minnesota Historical Society and State Archives and the Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life.