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Subject Librarian Rachel Brekhus

Rachel Brekhus
(573) 882-7563
brekhusr@missouri.edu


Subject Specialist for:
Anthropology
History
Philosophy
Religious Studies

MU Libraries Course Research Guide: Anthropology 3560: Plagues and Peoples

Instructor: Lisa Sattenspiel, 206 Swallow Hall

Books and E-Books

To locate a particular book whose title, author etc. you already know in the MU Libraries and other Missouri libraries, use the FindIt@MU Book Finder.  This searches the MU Libraries, including the Health Sciences Library, and if it does not find your book there, or if the book is checked out from the MU Libraries, it passes the search along to the UM Libraries and/or the statewide library consortium called MOBIUS.  You may request books from MOBIUS libraries or other UM libraries for delivery.

To find books on the topic of a particular disease, try a SUBJECT search in MERLIN.  Choose Search for Medical Subjects (MESH).  Type the name of the disease, e.g., Influenza.  Look for books under the general subject heading; you might also find some with narrower subjects such as Influenza Human Epidemiology or Influenza Human History.

Cambridge World History of Human Disease
http://mobius.missouri.edu/search/i?SEARCH=0521332869
  
 This is NOT an electronic book. This link goes to the record for the book in the MOBIUS statewide library catalog. You may check for available copies in the system and request delivery of a coyp, if any are marked AVAILABLE.

Medical Epidemiology Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.accessmedicine.com/resourceTOC.aspx?resourceID=12
  
Also Known as: Greenberg's Medical Epidemiology

Journal Articles

MEDLINE (Ovid) Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu:2048/login?url=http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&MODE=ovid&PAGE=main&NEWS=N&D=mesd
  
 MEDLINE provides accesss to international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. [more]

Websites

From your syllabus:

 

World Health Organization (WHO):  http://www.who.int

Centers for Disease Control (CDC):  http://www.cdc.gov

Health Canada: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO):  http://www.paho.org

Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm

Weekly Epidemiological Record: http://www.who.int/wer/

All the Virology on the WWW: http://www.virology.net/

Textbook of Bacteriology: http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/

See also the Disease History section

 

Disease History

History of Diseases (Karolinska Institutet)
http://www.mic.ki.se/HistDis.html
  
 Collection of Web sites and texts on the history of various diseases, collected by Karolinska Institutet, a prominent Swedish medical school.

MedHist
http://www.intute.ac.uk/healthandlifesciences/medhist/
  
 "MedHist is a free catalogue of evaluated, high quality Internet resources and websites relating to the history of medicine and allied sciences, covering all aspects of the history of health and development of medical knowledge."

Medical History of British India
http://www.nls.uk/indiapapers/index.html
  
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