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Course Guide

History 304: History of Medicine Dr. Annette Finley-Crosswhite Spring 2008 Reference Desk: 683.4178 Databases (to find journal articles) www.lib.odu.edu => Databases => Choose from the subject list or choose from the alphabetical list. Note: When you select a database from off campus, you will be prompted to enter your student ID number: use your 8 digit University ID Number (UIN). After entering your ID number, you will see two security screens. Click "yes" to proceed through them an to your chosen database.

Databases and Indexes

• America History and Life (ABC-CLIO) Indexes and abstracts books and journals on the history of the U.S. and Canada from pre-history to the present.
• C19 Indexes books, periodicals and official publications including mortality reports and official documents.
• Cambridge Journals Online Fulltext database in the sciences, social sciences and humanities: includes the British Journal for the History of Science.
• Historical Abstracts (ABC-CLIO) Indexes and abstracts books and journals of the world from 1450 to contemorary times.
• General Onefile Abstracts and fulltext database across a wide variety of subjects including history and sciences.
• JSTOR Fulltext database includes a number of journals on the history of science and technology.
• Oxford Journals Online Fulltext database in the sciences, medicine, and the social sciences: includes the journal Social History of Medicine.
• Project Muse Fulltext database includes the journals Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences and Perspectives on Science: Historical, Philisophical and Social as well as others.
• PubMed Abstracts and indexes articles from approx. 3900 current worldwide biomedical journals.
• Science Direct Fulltext journals in the sciences including Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences as well as others.
• Sociological Abstracts Indexes and abstracts books and journals in sociology and medical sociology.

Reference Books (good place to start research)

Cambridge World History of Human Disease
REF R131.C233 1993

Chronology of Public Health in the United States
REF RA445.W75 2005

Dictionary of the History of Medicine
REF R121.S398 1999

Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
REF Q124.97.K73 2004

Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia
REF Q124.97.M43 2005

Oxford Textbook of Public Health
REF 425.O9 2002 (Vol. 1-3)

Microfilm Collections

Annals of the Royal College of Physicians 1518-1988
Microfiche: R773 R5.A55

Black Death: Sources Concerning the European Plague 1474-1824
Microfilm: RC178.A1B53 1994

Darwin, Huxley and the Natural Sciences
Microfilm: QH31.D2 D228

Sex and Sexuality: Literary, Medical and Sociological Perspectives
Microfilm: HQ21.S46

Interlibrary Loan (to have books and articles sent to you)

ILLiad: Users must first register as an ODU patron, then select the type of item you wish to request and fill in as much information as you know about the requested item.

Internet Resources

• American Social Hygiene Posters National posters on all topics from hygiene to reproduction from 1910-1970.
• CDC Public Health Image Library Photos and images of diseases, carriers, and people.
• Karolinska Instuetet Sweden's largest medical center with excellent resources on the history of medicine, and the history of diseases.
• Historical Collections Exhibits From the University of Virginia Health System
• History of Medicine The National Library of Medicine with online exhibits and amazing digital text and illustration resources.
• MedHist Sponsored by the Wellcome Trust Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, provides internet links for Medical History.
• History of the Health Sciences Sponsored by the History of the Health Sciences Section of the Medical Library Association.
• United Kingdom Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery Contains useful bibliographies on the history of midwifery.

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