PART Net: Historical Medical Museum Personnel and Training Networks, 1700-1870

106 medical museums and 410 individuals with 441 roles are documented in this historical database. The PART Net database extends René Sigrist's work on savants from 1700-1870, focusing on medical museums and training networks. It includes six tables on savants, disciplines, training links, infrastructures, and personnel, with 11,431 savants and 3,709 training links.

Use Cases

• Network analysis of training lineages based on the 3,709 documented training links.
• Studying the institutional history of medicine based on data for 106 medical museums.
• Mapping the roles and affiliations of savants based on information for 410 individuals.
• Analyzing the relationship between scientific disciplines and museum infrastructures based on the six linked tables.

Strengths

• Includes data on 106 medical museums and 410 individuals with 441 specific roles.
• Contains a substantial training history component with 11,431 savants and 3,709 links.
• Structured as six interlinked tables, suggesting relational data integrity.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for individual tables is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to its 1700-1870 coverage period.

Provenance

Source

Extension of René Sigrist's Base de données sur les savants de la période 1700 1870 (DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3956437).

Collection Method

Likely compiled from historical archives and records, with a focus on medical museums.

Time Range

1700-1870

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-15 04:06:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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