HIS 238 - History of Health and Medicine in America
Books, Videos & CDs:
Search the MCLN Catalog
NetLibrary and other e-book collections – for over 50,000 electronic books.
Other Library Catalogs – to see what's available at UNC-A and other local libraries.
WorldCat – searches the collections of libraries all over the world and indexes books, audiovisuals, & archival and manuscript materials.
Articles & Databases:
Journal Sources:You could try these interdisciplinary, full-text periodical databases which cover almost any subject area. There are over 10,000 full-text journal titles in these three databases:
Academic Search Premier
MasterFILE Premier
Proquest Research Library
Next, try some of these more specialized indexes:
JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive – contains complete backfiles of key journals covering many subject areas including history (over 50 journals in history).
America History & Life – a great index w/ abstracts only (no full text), covering pre-history to the present for the U.S. and Canada.
MEDLINE – THE medical database, with citations to medical journals back to 1951. Warning: most of these are very technical and written by and for medical professionals, and you will need to use interlibrary loan to obtain many of them.
PsycInfo and PsycArticles – THE index for psychology (obviously useful for anything related to mental health). PsycArticles is a full-text subset of PsycInfo.
Health Source: Consumer and Health Source: Nursing/Academic – wide-ranging databases covering health and medical issues, with quite a bit of full-text.
Social Sciences Index – covers anthropology, sociology, psychology, etc.
Other Possibilities:
American National Biography
American Civil War: Letters & Diaries
American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
Biography Resource Center
Humanities Index
North American Women's Letters & Diairies
Oral History Online
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women Working, 1870-1930
The New York Times Historical – full coverage back to 1851.
Web Sites:
Here is an extensive list of web sites dealing with the history of medicine.Take a look at our library's selected list of history and health/medical web sites.
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