This page contains information about accessing e-books and print books via the ANZCA Library, as well as a linked list of selected books related to the history of anaesthesia.
How to access e-books
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For further information about searching and accessing e-books, see the E-books guide
Borrowing books
ANZCA library provides access to a large range of print items, specialising in anaesthesia and pain medicine-related titles.
For further information about requesting books, see the Borrowing books page
McGraw Hill e-Book access issues: There is an ongoing issue with McGraw-Hill e-books, whereby some users are improperly authenticated when accessing content within the IP range of another institution that also subscribes to MGH e-books. This results in the user being being unable to access some titles.
Access to the above collections should be unaffected when authenticated outside the IP range of the affected institutions. This includes access from home and access from a mobile device using 4/5G (and not the institutions' Wi-Fi). Users with a pre-existing MyAccess login, can sign out of the affected collections, and sign in using their MyAccess credentials.
Creating a MyAccess account:
ANZCA users requiring urgent access can submit chapter request/s via the Request an article service.
For a comprehensive list of titles, see: History of anaesthesia
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Their goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live.
The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive.
Highlights from "Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia"
Cronin M. 2018. Museuming: things museums should be doing. In: Desai MS. Desai SP, editors. Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on the history of anesthesia. Boston: 2018. p. 3.
Cronin M. 2018. Where are all the women? Exploring the seemingly invisible history of women in anaethesia. In: Desai MS. Desai SP, editors. Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on the history of anesthesia. Boston: 2018. pp. 158-161.
Chong CT. 2018. Historical perspectives on total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA). In:&Desai MS. Desai SP, editors. Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on the history of anesthesia. Boston: 2018. pp. 191-193.