Helmke Library offers collections and rapid access to a wealth of in-depth resources to support research in medical anthropology, medical sociology, transcultural nursing, and cross-cultural aspects of public medicine and health care. Here are some of the major tools in this interdisciplinary field to help you discover and deliver the best resources. Be sure to Ask a Librarian for help in refining your information-foraging skills.
Thinking of Words...using dictionaries, thesauruses, quotations
These resources define terms and point out related concepts, but do not generally offer suggestions to guide your reading.
Concise Medical Dictionary, 2003
Dictionary of Anthropology (Reference GN307 .D485 1997)
Dictionary of Medical Sociology (Science Reference RA418 .C655 1997)
Dictionary of Mind and Body: Therapies, Techniques and Ideas in Alternative Medicine, the Healing Arts and Psychology (Science Reference R733 .W38 1995)
Dictionary of Nursing, 2003.
Dictionary of Public Health, 2007
Dictionary of the Social Sciences, 2002
Encyclopedia of World Cultures, "Ethnonym Index" (also available Reference GN307 .E53 1991 v. 10) Use the Ethnonym Index in v. 10 Index (also see the Supplement volume) to find accepted ethnic group names (i.e., ethnonyms). It is often necessary to search under all alternate forms and spellings to locate the major ethnographic works about a culture in periodical databases (see Finding Current Information) and library catalogs (see Discovering Books).
Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary (Science Reference R121 .M89 2002)
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary (Science Reference R121 .T14 1997)
Gaining an Overview...using encyclopedias, guides, handbooks, textbooks, yearbooks
These resources will help you find your way into the literature thicket. Specialized encyclopedias and handbooks contain articles written by experts who identify the key authors and concepts that you need to pursue.
Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology (Science Reference RA418 .B5736 2001)
Community Health Nursing: Promoting and Protecting the Public's Health (Science Reference RT98 .S68 2005)
[Recommended] Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality (Reference H21 .I68 2004)
[Recommended] Countries and their Cultures, 4 vols. (Reference GN307 .C68 2001)
DK Encyclopedia of Healing Therapies (Science Reference R733 .W65 1997)
[Recommended] Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 5 vols. (also available Science Reference QH332 .E52 2004)
Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, 4 vols. (Reference GN307 .E52 1996)
Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine: Old World and New World Traditions, 2004.
Encyclopedia of Health Care Management (Science Reference RA971 .E52 2004)
[Recommended] Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures, 2 vols. (Science Reference RA418 .E354 2004)
Encyclopedia of Public Health, 4 vols., 2002.
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures, 2 vols. (Reference HQ16 .E53 2004)
Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology (also available Reference GN307 .E648 1996)
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender, 2 vols. (Reference HQ1115 .E52 2001)
[Recommended] Encyclopedia of World Cultures, 10 vols., and Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement (also available Reference GN307 .E53 1991 and Suppl. 2002)
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 4 vols., 2005
Handbook of Chinese Herbs (Science Reference RM666.H33 Y38 1996)
Handbook of Community-Based and Home Health Nursing Practice: Tools for Assessment, Intervention, and Education (Science Reference RT98 .S782 2000)
Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 3 vols. (Reference GN502 .H36 1997)
Handbook of Gender, Culture, and Health, 2000
Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Reference GN345 .H37 1998)
Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology (Reference GN502 .H3635 2003
[Recommended] Health and Illness: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (Science Reference R733 .L477 1997)
Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z (Science Reference RA395.A3 R685 2000)
Health in the Americas (Pan American Health Organization), 2 vols. (Science Reference RA407.5.A45 H43 2002)
[Recommended] International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 26 vols. (Reference H41 .I58 2001)
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 19 vols. (Reference H41 .I63 1968)
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying, 2 vols., 2003
Oxford Companion to Medicine, 2005
Oxford Companion to the Body, 2004
Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 3 vols. (Science Reference RA425 .O9 1997)
Science, Technology and Society, 2005
Finding Current Information...using databases & indexes, alerting services (some may require free registration), journals to browse
Find a link to more than 20,000 online licensed journals available on or off campus to IPFW students, faculty, and staff through Helmke Library's E-Journal Finder. Search by exact journal title or keywords in journal titles, or browse for journals under broad subjects. Look under Social Sciences > Anthropology or under Health & Biological Sciences > Medicine or Public Health subject categories.
All online and printed journals available to IPFW library users are included in IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog). See especially the comprehensive literature reviews published in Annual Review of Anthropology. For example: Dressler, William W., Kathryn S. Oths, and Clarence C. Gravlee. 2005. "Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research: Models to Explain Health Disparities." Annual Review of Anthropology 34(1):231-52.
Be sure to use the handy  button to view all delivery options for the search results you discover. The following databases provide indexing and abstracting of articles in the most important medical anthropology and transcultural health care journals.
Anthropology Plus -    |
Coverage: Late 19th century to present |
Brief Description: Indexes more than 2,500 journals worldwide from the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary studies. |
Tools Available: An online list of journals indexed is available. |
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Academic Search Premier -    |
Coverage: Indexing coverage varies, with full-text content for some titles beginning 1975 or earlier, and most titles indexed from the 1990s. |
Brief Description: Provides abstracts and indexing of articles in more than 8,000 popular magazines, scholarly journals, and major newspapers in all fields of study, with nearly 4,000 titles available full text. |
Tools Available: A complete list of titles covered is available. |
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Call Number: Reference Z6675.N7 C8 |
Coverage: 1981 to present |
Brief Description: Provides monthly updated indexing of more than 2,900 journals in the fields of nursing and allied health and publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League of Nursing, covering 1981 to present. |
Other IPFW Formats: IPFW library owns the printed index 1956-1997. |
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Google Scholar - |
Brief Description: Google Scholar is a specialized Google search engine that limits your search to scholarly material combed from Web sites, databases, and publication lists of the world's major academic publishers, scholarly and professional societies, and university repositories. |
Tools Available: Google Scholar Help is available. |
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Discovering Books...using library catalogs, bibliographies
A quick way to narrow your search results in large multidisciplinary databases is to add some or all of these anthropology-related terms to your search strategy: (your keywords or subject terms) and (anthrop$ or ethno$ or social or sociolog$ or behavior$ or cross cultur$ or transcultur$ or primitive or magic$ or folk$ or holistic or alternative or therap$)
This example works well in IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog). Remember to include the correct truncation symbol for the database you are using, whether an asterisk (*), question mark (?), dollar sign ($), etc.
For help in constructing effective Boolean search strategies, see Helmke Library's Foraging for Information Worksheet (PDF).
WorldCat - |
Brief Description: Provides access to the OCLC database with more than 1 billion bibliographic records for materials in all formats. |
Tools Available: Online tutorials are available. |
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Checking Facts...using almanacs, statistics
Country Resources: The Green Boxes (Indiana University) provide handy links to both freely accessible and licensed resources (available only to IU Bloomington users)
Country Studies (printed editions also available in IUCAT Catalog (Indiana University's online library catalog) by searching 'Area Handbook Series' and [country name])
Globalhealthfacts.org
National Center for Health Statistics
Statistical Abstract of the United States (also available Service Desk C 3.134:[current year])
Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Library)
World Factbook (also available Service Desk PREX 3.15:[current year])
Seeking People & Organizations...using biographies, directories, cited & co-cited author indexes
American Anthropological Association
American Men and Women of Science, 8 vols., 2005
Biography Resource Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dictionary of Scientists, 1999
Social Medicine Portal
Society for Medical Anthropology
Encountering Facts & Opinions...using reviews, editorials
Academic Search Premier
Book Review Index (Reference Z1035.A1 B6)
Editorials on File, 1970-2006 (Reference D39 .E3)
Facts on File
Using Writing & Editing Tools...using style guides, guidelines for authors
Anthropology Style Guide (PDF)
American Anthropological Association Style Guide
Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors, and Copywriters, 15th ed. (Service Desk Z253 .U69 2003)
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Service Desk BF76.7 P83 2001)
Crossing Boundaries...using subject headings, call numbers, syndetic structure
Anthropological works are generally classified under geographic area. Materials of interest to students of medical anthropology and transcultural health care may be found throughout the library. To browse profitably among the relevant call numbers, see the following LC classification outlines.
Library of Congress Classification Outline for Schedule D: History - Europe, Asia, Africa (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification Outline for Schedule E-F: History - United States, North & South America (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification Outline for Schedule GN: Anthropology (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification Outline for Schedule H: Social Sciences (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification Outline for Schedule R: Medicine (PDF)
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