Library

History/Gender and Women's Studies 20: In Sickness and in Health

Professor: Susan Tananbaum
Librarian: Ginny Hopcroft
Fall 2007

Catalogs for Books

Bowdoin College Library Catalog: Access to Bowdoin Library's holdings of books, videos, government documents, etc.

MaineCat: Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. It has an online request button—requests from Colby and Bates take 1-2 days.

NExpress: Combines access to the library holdings of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Wellesley, Williams and Northeastern; requests usually arrive in 2 days.

WorldCat: Combined database of library catalogs nationwide.

In the catalogs above, you can begin looking for your topic with a keyword search or a subject search. For a subject search, here are examples of subject headings for the history of public health:

Public Health--United States
Public Health--Great Britain
Medicine--New England--18th century
AIDS (Disease)--Moral and Ethical Aspects
Medical Care
Epidemics--Europe--History
Social Medicine
Maternal and Infant Welfare

Reference Books

Statistical Handbook on Infectious Diseases
Sci Ref RA643 .W33 2003

The Encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS
Sci Ref RC606.6 .W385 2003

Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Main Ref QH332 .E52 1995

Dictionary of American History
Main Ref E174 .D52 2003

Encyclopedia of American Social History
Main Ref HN57 .E58 1993

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Main Ref H41 .I58 2001

Encyclopedia of European Social History
Main Ref HN 373 .E63 2001

Health care delivery in the U.S.S.R.: a bibliography, 1928-1987
Main Ref Z6661.S65 S74

The history of the health care sciences and health care, 1700-1980 : a selective annotated bibliography / Jonathon Erlen. 1984.
Main Ref Z6660.8 .E74 1984

Traditional medicine: implications for ethnomedicine, ethnopharmacology, maternal and child health, mental health, and public health : an annotated bibliography of Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean / Ira E. Harrrison. 1987.
Main Ref Z5118.M4 H3

United States government documents on women, 1800-1990: a comprehensive bibliography / Mary Ellen Huls. 1993.
Main Ref HQ1410 .H85 1993 v.1.

Journals

Use the “ Journals” tab in the Library Catalog to locate these journals in paper or electronic format.

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Health and History
Journal of Social History
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Statistical Bulletin
Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly--Health and Society
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Public Health Reports
Research in the Sociology of Health Care RA418 .R47
Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Project Muse)
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Indexes and Databases

Some of these databases provide citations only. Others contain the full text of the journal articles. Use either the “Check Availability” link in the database or the “Journals” tab in the Library Catalog to determine availability of a journal article.

Academic Search Premier: Academic Search Premier indexes over 1800 peer reviewed journals in the social sciences, humanities and science, as well as general interest magazines and a few major American newspapers.

LexisNexis Academic: A full text database of news and legal information. This database provides access to both current news and up to 20 years of retrospective news, both domestic and international.

America History and Life; and Historical Abstracts: From the menu for the search box at the top of the screen choose either "U.S. and Canadian History" or "World History excluding the U.S. and Canada." These are the two foremost bibliographic indexes for the scholarly literature of history. Both index articles, books and dissertations published throughout the world from the 1960’s to the present.

History Journals in the J-STOR Electronic Journal Service: The J-Stor service makes available full text articles from selected scholarly journals. All articles from all years of the journal are reproduced, except for the most recent five years.

History of Medicine

MEDLINE/PubMed: To find journal articles in the history of medicine that were published after 1964, click Limits tab on the PubMed homepage and select Subset: History of Medicine.
PAIS International (1915-1976) PAIS International (1972-Present): PAIS indexes "publications on all subjects that bear on contemporary public issues and the making and evaluation of public policy, irrespective of source or traditional disciplinary boundaries." Sources may be periodical articles, books, government documents or reports from IGOs.

Reader's Guide Retrospective: The Reader's Guide is an easy-to-use author/subject index to a broad range of U.S. general interest magazines and journals.

Primary Sources

American Periodicals Series: "...Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century."

Government Documents Monthly Catalog 1976 to present, online: Bowdoin's collection of U.S. government documents is not yet fully cataloged, so these print and online indexes are used to locate government publications. When you locate a document in this index, please make note of the "Sudocs" classification number in order to locate the document in Bowdoin's collection.

Poole's Index Main Per Index –1802 to 1906: Poole's Index is a print subject index to British and American periodicals of the 19th century. The Library holds many of these 19th century periodicals.

America’s Historical Newspapers 1740 to 1900.: “Features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images.”

History of Medicine from the National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/hmd.html


MedHist http://medhist.ac.uk/

Special Collections: The George J. Mitchell Special Collections and Archives, located on the third floor of the Library, houses the records of the Medical School of Maine, part of Bowdoin College from 1820 to 1921, as well as eighteenth century treatises on medicine, some early Maine health periodicals, and others. Some Special Collections books and manuscripts are not in the Library Catalog, so visiting the Special Collections and Archives to use their card catalog is recommended.