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AN 382: Health, Society & CultureDr. Alex Carroll-RuuskaPrint ResourcesEncyclopedia of Medical Anthropology, volumes 1 and 2. REF RA418 .E354 2004 Native American Ethnobotany. REF E 98 .B7 M66 1998. Encyclopedia of Medical History. REF R133 .M34 1985 Bibliography of the History of Medicine. NMU Documents HE 20.3615: International Bibliography of Social and Cultural Anthropology. GN 316 .I593. Selected Medical Anthropological Journals (most available through NMU) and Database Resources:
Direct links to databases listed above: ABI Inform, Academic OneFile, America: History & Life, Anthropological Index Online, AHSearch, CINAHL, ECO, GEOBASE, MEDLINE (PubMed), MEDLINE (FirstSearch), MLA, PsychINFO, Sage, Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, SocialSciAbs, Springer, and Wilson Select Plus. List of Anthropology journals indexed in MEDLINE. Includes some titles not listed above. Google Scholar. Search for resources within the social sciences field, medical field, or across many disciplines. NMU Library Catalog and for searching farther afield, WorldCat. Search with subject terms such as anthropology, “medical anthropology”, “medicine, traditional”, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, “traditional medicine”, "social medicine", "anthropology, cultural". Interlibrary Loan of resources. Plan ahead; get your books or articles early. Register for this now if you have not already done so! Internet ResourcesSociety for Medical Anthropology, a subgroup of the American Anthropological Association. Contains links to resources, news, journal information, contacts in the field, etc. Native American Ethnobotany. Database from Daniel Moerman at U-M Dearborn (author of Native American Ethnobotany, listed above under Print Resources). Briefly cites the original publications where a reference to the plant and its use was mentioned, and then links to the USDA description of the plant. Bibliography of Medicinal Plants from the Library of Congress, and one of Ethnobotany of the Americas. Links from the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology. MedAnth (A lot of Anthropology instructors had linked to this. Looks a bit suspect to me). Medical Anthropology links from the Social Science Information Gateway. Infomine: A scholarly resource search engine. Medical Anthropology Glossary: The root website itself (from Palomar College), Cultural Anthropology Resources, has additional resources. Demographic & Health Surveys from Measure DHS. Profiles 75 countries with information about "health, nutrition, HIV, and population". Includes customizable data sets. The International Union of the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences website has a Commission on Medical Anthropology & Epidemiology. Current and back issues of the IUAES Newsletter are available. CitingAmerican Anthropological Association Styleguide. The Association's citation style is based upon the Chicago Manual of Style. A print copy of the Chicago Manual of Style can be found in the reference collection: REF Z253 .U69 2003.
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