Background/Reference Sources
Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.
3rd ed. New York : Macmillan Reference USA : Thomson/Gale, c2004.
Tanner » Reference (Non-circulating) » QH332 .E52 2004 V.1
Also a searchable digital encyclopedia
2nd ed. Ithaca, N.Y. : New Strategist, c2007.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » RA445 .A442 2007
2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2003.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » RA395 .A3 R685 2003
New York ; London : Springer, c2008.
New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2004.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » RA418 .E354 2004 V.1
Oxford ; Seattle : Radcliffe Pub., c2005.
Green » Stacks » RA441.5 .M33 2005
Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1995.
Business » Check Business Library catalog for status » RC81 .C725 1995
This work is a collection of almost 200 consumer health publications produced by the US government. The texts are replicated in full and cover a wide variety of topics that include: AIDS; allergies; cancer; contraception; genetic diseases; and women's health.
Suggested Searchworks Subject Terms
These are some sample Searchworks searches - see the left-hand column limiters to limit your results by language, date, topic, format, etc.
results are sorted from new to old
Databases
Besides the selected general and subject-specific databases listed here , try these databases for Articles on particular perspectives on Health
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
add ("choose databases"): America: History and Life, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Film and TV Literature Index, MLA (Literature)
[Ann Arbor, Mich.] : ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Click on the link at the top "Social Science Databases". you can search all, or select one or more: AltPress Watch, Gender Watch, Ethnic NewsWatch, Sociological Abstracts, Psycinfo, PAIS (public policy).
[New York] : Elsevier, 2004-
a cross-section of scientific and social science - try, for example, searching: health policy and nutrition
Suggested E-Journals
When you search a particular journal, you don't need to use as many keywords in your search. You already know the focused perspective of the journal by its description.
[New York, NY] : Springer, c2006-
Oxford : Oxford University Press
Sample Books of Interest
2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, c2003.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2007.
Green » Stacks » RA563 .M56 E45 2007
New York, NY : Springer, c2007.
Maidenhead, Berkshire : Open University Press, 2005.
Green » Stacks » RA395 .A84 C65 2005
Washington, DC : World Bank ; Geneva : World Health Organization : International Labour Office, 2004.
