Research Guides: HIST 356: Health Care History: Home

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Welcome to the 2020 guide for HIST 356! This page features tools that will help you gather sources for your research projects.

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Databases for locating research

OneSearch
Filter to Stetson Library to search the collections of the duPont-Ball Library.
ProQuest Complete
Searching most of the ProQuest databases at once, including ProQuest Research, ABI/Inform, GenderWatch, Hoovers Company Records, ProQuest Biology, Science, and Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Newspapers.
JSTOR
An archive of scholarly journals. Content spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The most recent 3-5 years of journals are generally not available. JSTOR has a number of other collections to which we do not subscribe. Provided through a cooperative agreement with Stetson's College of Law Library.
EBSCO Research Databases
A search interface to multiple databases on the EBSCO platform. (Academic Search Premier, MLA, PsycInfo, and more)
Credo Reference
A starting point for research and learning that offers unlimited access to hundreds of full text reference books on every subject. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations.
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies
Coverage of gender in culture and society. Includes scholarly journals and magazines.
African American Experience
Covers the black experience from its African origins to the present day. Topics include history, biography, literature, arts, music, pop culture, folklore, business, slavery, civil rights, politics, sports, education, and science & technology.

Includes hundreds of primary documents: manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other papers; More than 4,000 interviews with former slaves, including the WPA slave narratives from the acclaimed The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography; Sixty-seven Negro University Press texts from the late 1700s to the early 1970s classics in black scholarship. Other Features: In their Own Voices (audio clips, such as interviews with former slaves and music files). Links to vetted Web sites. Lesson plans, directly tied to associated primary source documents and images, and other classroom resources. Hundreds and hundreds of photographs, maps, and other images.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
Archival materials including: digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and more.
America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations
Includes newsletters, position papers, and FBI reports dealing with every aspect of antiwar work carried out by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). Covers 1967-1975.
Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
Provides a comprehensive and systematically organized collection of material on this series of events. All aspects of the war are covered in this collection.

Contents cover the Viet Cong and the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Southeast Asia, the campuses and political forums in the U.S., and conflicting perceptions about the nature, course, and purpose of the war. The collection spans 21 years and includes 365,000 pages of materials.
ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS
A full-text collection of major religion and theology journals selected by some of the major religion scholars in the United States. Coverage begins in 1949.

Special topics

Will B: Seminole Health Practices

Jessica C: treatment of cholera before scientific medicine

Angel I: Women Homeopaths in treatment of earlier pandemics, with lessons for today (Gale db search: https://bit.ly/33xwkRO)

Kyla J: Racial Inequality in health care

Kelli K: Chicago Nurses in the 1918 Flu Epidemic

Avery M: Lessons from past pandemics for Covid

Stephen M: Lyme Disease problems and management

Matthew M: Jim Crow public health

Brianna R: Veterans Administration problems and opportunities

Kennedy R: History of Access to Reproductive Health Care

Megan S: Smallpox Vaccination in Colonial America

Adrian S: Asbestos Research

Josiah W: Pharmaceutical Companies at the intersection of markets and medicine

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