Global Library of Women’s Medicine

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine is a new free resource featuring over 442 peer-reviewed, full text, searchable chapters on women’s medicine.

“The Global Library of Women?óÔé¼Ôäós Medicine is a unique web library incorporating a range of detailed clinical information across the whole field of women?óÔé¼Ôäós medicine. It consists of 442 main chapters and 53 supplementary chapters, supported by more than 40,000 references, which will be kept permanently up-to-date. The chapters have been written by more than 650 specialists and will reflect some of the very best worldwide opinion. The website has been developed from the six-volume, encyclopedic textbook Gynecology & Obstetrics, which was first published in 1934 and has been edited for the last 30 years by professor John J. Sciarra.”

Though the site is available to the public, medical and health professionals can register for extra features, such as the ability to comment on the text, submit new material, and access videos, medical atlases and laboratory tests.

GLOWM was created in honor of the publisher’s daughter, Abigal Bloomer, who died of breast cancer at age 31.