Health and Society
This is a list of some of the resources in Paul Robeson Library, and on the
Internet, concerning health and society. For more information
please ask a reference librarian.
Reference Works
Dictionary of the History of Medicine / REF R 121 S398 1999
History of the African-American in Medicine / REF R 695 M6 1978
Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing / REF RT 31 S66 1999
Dictionary of American Nursing Biography / REF RT 34 D53 1988
Cambridge World History of Human Disease / REF R 131 C233
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine / REF R 131 E5 1993
Great Events from History: Science and Technology Series / REF Q 125 G825
1991
Dictionary of Scientific Biography / REF Q 141 D5
Writings on American History, 1962-1973 / REF E 178 W773 1985 (vol. 2 &
3)
Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies / REF DA 550 C852 (pp. 436-453)
American Diaries / REF CT 214 A74
Civil War Eyewitnesses / REF E 601 C78 1988
American Travelers Abroad: A Bibliography of Accounts Published Before 1900
/ REF G 222 A1 S6 1999
Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women's Autobiographies / REF
HQ 1593 A3 K35 1997
British Diaries / REF Z 5305 G7 M3 1950a
British Autobiographies / REF Z 2027 A9 M3 1968
British Parliamentary Papers. General Index, 1801-1899 / REF Z 2019 I74
Monthly Catalog of US Government Documents / Doc Ref area
Historical Statistics of the United States / Doc Ref HA 202 B87 1975
Medical Sources at the Camden County Historical Society / REF R 284 C16
D56 1997
Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Archives of the Library of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia / REF R 314 P5 C68 1983
For your topics it is probably better to start with a keyword search,
such as (nurse or nurses or nursing) and civil war and then look
for appropriate subject headings.
Be aware that items at the Alexander Library in New Brunswick purchased
before c. 1970 and not checked out since then are not included in IRIS.
We have a copy of their old card catalog from c. 1970 on microfilm. Ask
at the Reference Desk for more information.
Two other catalogs may be useful in locating resources for your paper.
Both will include some primary sources. You can request items from these
catalogs on interlibrary loan.
- RLIN -- database of catalogs from research libraries
- CRL (Center for Research Libraries)
The library has several journal indexes available. The best index for
you will depend on your topic. Some of the general indexes
that are likely to be relevant are:
- America History & Life
- Humanities Index
- Medline
- Cinahl
- Histline (http://igm.nlm.nih.gov)
For primary source articles, the following, located in the Index area,
may be useful:
- New York Times Index, 1851 -
- Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, 1890 -
- Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906
- Writings on American History, 1902-1906
- Pennsylvania Gazette (electronic full-text, look in IRIS)
The
Wellcome Library (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/library/homlib/HOMlibCATeleINTlnk.html)
American Association for the History
of Medicine (http://www.histmed.org/sites.htm)