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Listed below, in no particular order, are a number of ideas for research
papers. The list is by NO means complete, but is only designed to spark
interest on your part. You certainly do not have to choose from this
list. Do remember, however, that only one person to a topic, so, if you
see something you like, speak up quickly! All of these topics are easily
researchable using our library, InterLibrary loan, and the National Library of
Medicine.
Paleopathology, Ancient
New technologies and resources in paleopathology
Life cycle of pre-agricultural Man
Medical importance of development of agriculture
Health and illness in early cities
Warfare and trauma in Egypt and Mesopotamia
Medical treatments and surgical techniques in ancient Egypt
Egyptian medicine and religion
Medicine and public health in Old Testament
Code of Hammurabi and medical ethics
Judaism and medicine
Chinese anatomy and medicine
Confucian medical ethics
History and origins of syphilis
Ayurvedic medicine
Comparison of Chinese and Indian medical systems
Classical
Homeric medicine
Mystery of Plague of Athens
Hippocratic medicine
Greek and Roman medical sects and philosophies
Roman military medicine
Development of the hospital
Roman public health
Library at Alexandria and medical research
Galen's medicine and its influence on medieval medicine
Plague of Justinian
Medicine in Byzantine Empire
Medieval
Salerno medical school and medieval universities
Medieval Christianity and medicine
Monastic medicine and Hildegard of Bingen
Women and medieval medicine
Leprosy in Middle Ages
Bubonic Plague
Medieval epidemics and other health risks
Warfare and trauma in Middle Ages
Arabic physician-scholars and preservation of knowledge
Early Modern
Enlightenment and medical reform
Renaissance anatomy and modernization of medical knowledge
Life and death in early modern Europe
Witchcraft and ergotism
Development of public health programs in early modern Europe
Scurvy and Age of Discovery
Medical aspects of discovery and conquest of New World
Smallpox and vaccination movement
Mental health in Middle Ages and early modern European reforms
Prison reform as public health issue
Academic medicine and new inventions
Medicine in Age of Revolutions - French Revolution and Napoleon
Enlightened Absolutism and public health
Nineteenth Century
19th century Sanitation Movement (public health)
Urban sanitation, pollution, poverty
Industrialization, urbanization, and public health
Bacteriological Revolution
Microbiology and war on infectious disease
Rabies
Pasteur and Koch
Anthrax
Yellow fever and building of Panama Canal
Cholera
Tuberculosis and sanitorium movement
Diphtheria and Anchorage-Nome Alaska race
European diseases in conquest of Hawaii and Polynesia
British rule in India, problems of cholera and plague
European conquest of Africa, problem of African sleeping sickness
Development of tropical medicine
Civil War medicine and surgery
Homeopathy
Hydropathy, "water cure" and spas
Osteopathy and chiropractic
Seventh Day Adventists and Christian Scientists
Patent medicines and self-medication
Patent medicine and women's health
Development of nursing and professionalization of women
Early women physicians
Red Cross
Modernization of surgery
Anesthesia and antisepsis
Developments in mental health
Freud and birth of psychiatry
Twentieth Century
Development of antibiotics
Proliferation of specialties, from pediatrics to geriatrics
World War I and advances in military medicine
World War I and development of psychiatry
World War II, Korea, Vietnam - modernization of military medicine
Bioterrorism and biowarfare
Emergent viruses - Ebola, Marburg, etc
Tuskeegee experiment - racism and medical ethics
Advances in surgical techniques
Organ transplantation
Development of diagnostic technology
Revolution in pharmacology
Institutional advances, hospitals, universities, research facilities
New interest in education and prevention
Nazism and birth of international medical ethics
Modern medical education
Spanish Flu
Polio
Malaria
Pediatrics, child welfare
Venereal disease, STDs
Sickle cell anemia and malaria
Prostheses and aids
HIV/AIDS
New importance of chronic rather than acute disease
New health care professions
Medical consumerism, marketing of medicine
Economics and politics in medicine
Medical insurance, the HMO, Medicare/Medicaid
Resurgence in interest in non-Western medicine, alternative medicine
Third World poverty and disease
Problem of antibiotic resistance
Ethics and reproductive medicine, cloning
Scarce resources and rising costs
End-of-life issues and euthanasia
Development of hospice movement
This list is by NO means exhaustive. There are many other
topics which you may find interesting.
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