Location
The Rare Book Room is located in Room 5919 of the Taubman Medical Library which is part of the University of Michigan's medical campus.
Address
Taubman Medical Library
1135 E. Catherine St.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109-2038
Telephone
734-763-3071 (Reference)
734-764-1210 (General Information)
To find the library, directions (click on Library name) and maps are available. Parking near the library is limited. Visitors may wish to use buses instead.
Hours
Materials from the Rare Book Room may be used in the Taubman Medical Library Reference Office from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday through most of the year; please check the library hours for any closures for holidays or other reasons.
Materials may be requested at the Reference Desk in person.
About the Rare Book Room
from the Aldred Scott Warthin Collection
The Alfred Taubman Medical Library Rare Book Room serves as a resource for researchers in the history of medicine. It contains approximately 6,300 medical works of scholarly significance, original descriptions of important medical discoveries, and classic accounts of the evolution of modern medicine.
With titles dating from 1470 to the early 20th century, the collections consist primarily of pre-1850 imprints and includes
- 82 incunabula
- medical fugitive sheets
- manuscripts
- letters
- medical cartoons
- medical portraits
- medical illustrations
- 52 medical magical amulets
- medical artifacts
The collections are almost all cataloged and represented in the University of Michigan’s online catalog Mirlyn.
From its early beginnings the Rare Book Room has benefited from a number of generous donations and the continuing transfer of volumes from the Taubman Medical Library stacks. Thus the collections cover a broad range of medical subjects. Particular strengths have developed in
- anatomy
- surgery
- homeopathy
- pharmacy and materia medica
- obstetrics and gynecology
- American medical literature from the early 1800s
- cardiology
- pathology
- hernia repair
Rare Books Librarian
Barbara Shipman
My Contact Info:
Taubman Medical Library
University of Michigan
1135 E. Catherine
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2038
734-936-1398
My Links:
My Profile & Guides
My Subjects:
History of Medicine, Biological Chemistry, Cell & Developmental Biology, Microbiology & Immunology, Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Pharmacology
Guide Created by
Nadia J. Lalla
Interim Collections Coordinator
Health Sciences Libraries
The University of Michigan
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