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ANT344: Healers in Cultural Perspective
Fall 2002 - Donald Joralemon
reference contact: Sika Berger x2963

Background | Books | Articles | Internet Links | Citation Style | Contacts for Help

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Reference Source / Website Link or Call Number
Handbook of Medical Anthropology:
Contemporary Theory and Method
ref GN 296 M423 1996
Encyclopedia of Bioethics (5 volumes) ref QH 332 E52 1995
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine
(2 volumes)
ref R 131 .C65 1993

Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (4 volumes)

ref GN 307 E52 1996
Countries and Their Cultures (4 volumes) ref GN 307 .C68 2001

Encyclopedia of World Cultures (10 volumes)

ref GN 550 .E53 1991

Also Look for Specific Reference Sources Link or Call Number

Encyclopedia of Aging (4 volumes)

ref HQ 1061 .E534 2002
Older Americans Almanac ref HQ 1064 U5 O416 1994
Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine (3 volumes, level A) R 605 .E53 1985

Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic

ref RA 644.A25 E5276 1998
The AIDS Bibliography: Studies in Anthropology and Related Fields ref GN 296 .A24 1994

An Annotated Bibliography of Cambodia and Cambodian Refugees

MH Reference
Z 3228.C5 M36 1987
(also in UM Reference)
The Alternative Health & Medicine Encyclopedia SCI: ref R 733 .M38 1998
Bioethics, Health Care, and the Law: A Dictionary ref R 725.5 H44 1999
Encyclopedia of U.S. Biomedical Policy ref RA 395 A3 E545 1996

BOOKS: The Five-College Library System

Use Advanced Keyword searching to combine terms,
or search with Subject Headings such as these:
Healers - [country or region]
Shamans
Herbalists
Traditional medicine - [place]
Medical anthropology
Indians of North America - Medicine
Public health - Anthropological aspects
Medical care
[group] - Medicine
Medicine, Ayurvedic - India
Ahimsa
Nonviolence
Aged - Family relationships
Caregivers - United States
Aging parents - Care

AIDS (Disease)
Women healers
Midwifery - History
Midwives
Childbirth - Cross-cultural studies
Cesarean section
Human reproduction - Government policy - Brazil
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Khmers - Medicine
Tuberculosis - United States
Communicable diseases
Hispanic Americans - Psychology
Puerto Rican women - Mental health
Acupuncture
Alternative medicine

Search the libraries' online catalog by Journal title to find call numbers for
bound periodicals on the second floor in Neilson Library.

Search WorldCat to find books from outside the Five Colleges, available through Interlibrary Loan. You must plan ahead -- allow at least two weeks.

New! Use the Five College Electronic Journal Locator to access full-text journals by title.

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND MORE

Social Sciences Abstracts (1983 to present, index of core journals -- many at Smith, some full-text)

Health Reference Center & Expanded Academic Index ASAP
(1980 to present, some news and articles full-text)
Access is made possible by the Massachusetts Library and Information network

Anthropological Index Online (1957 to present)

Sociological Abstracts (1963 to present)

MEDLINE via PubMed (1966 to present, includes "AIDSLINE" and "BIOETHICSLINE" subsets)

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (1982 to present)

Bibliography of Asian Studies (1971 to present)

PILOTS:An Electronic Index to the Traumatic Stress Literature

PsycINFO (1887 to present)

AfricaBib:Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature

LexisNexis Academic
(CAUTION: Use restricted to Smith faculty, staff, and students only.)
Fulltext articles from news and popular sources. Read the search tips and enter a specific topic.

INTERNET LINKS

Resource Link
Library Information Services Gateway: Kennedy Institute of Ethics
Features Bioethics Thesaurus and tips for searching Bioethics materials in PubMed
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/
Society for Medical Anthropology (AAA) http://www.medanthro.net/
WWW Virtual Library:
Medical Anthropology

http://vlib.anthrotech.com/

Anthro.Net: Medical Anthropology
Includes some texts and links.
http://home1.gte.net/ericjw1/medical.html
Medical Anthropology Web
http://www.medanth.com/
Bioethics.Net http://bioethics.net/
National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/

HELP WITH CITATION STYLE

Resource Website
AAA Style Guide http://www.aaanet.org/pubs/style_guide.htm
Citation Guides for Electronic Documents (IFLA) http://www.ifla.org/I/training/citation/citing.htm
Electronic Styles: Handbook for Citing Electronic Information ref desk PN 171 D37 L5 1996

HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN

See Need Help? Ask a Librarian! to send a question via e-mail at any time or live days and many nights until 2 a.m., or contact Sika Berger, Reference Librarian directly: sberger@email.smith.edu

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