Gender, Bodies and Health : a guide to library resources Contents: Related library guides which may be helpful: Mental Health/Psychiatry - Mental Health resources by topic
Public Health - Public Health resources by Topic - Women's Health (Includes Men's health)
Sexuality & Anthropology Resources for Particular Discources:
Starting Points
When you need to define your topic and/or get some background reading try consulting a dictionary or encyclopedia. The most recent print editions are located in the Reference Collection on level 3 South. Some are also available electronically. Encyclopedia of aging : a comprehensive resource in gerontology and geriatrics (2001) In Her Own Right: The Institute of Medicine's Guide to Women's Health Issues (1997)
An overview of women's health, highlighting the health differences between men and women and examining women's health issues across the life span. Men's health : a research agenda and background report (1999)
Report written by R.W. Connell ... [et al.]. Submitted to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. Men's Bibliography: a comprehensive bibliography of writing on men, masculinities and sexualities (1996)
Includes useful sections on Men's health, Men's bodies and biology. Also available in print. New A to Z of women’s health : a concise encyclopedia (1995)
Does not focus exclusively on "women’s" topics but touches on all aspects of general health, including diet, exercise, disease and treatment.
Women and aging: a guide to the literature (1997)
A bibliography of women and aging. Finding Books Using The Library CatalogueUse these terms in keyword and subject heading searches:
Sex role
Women
Feminist theory
Women Health and hygiene
Men Health and hygiene
Masculinity
Men
Gender identity
Feminism
Inequality
Body, Human Social aspects
Sexism in medicine
Self-help
techniques
Depression,
Mental Popular works
Aboriginal Australians Health and hygiene
Aboriginal Australians Medical care
Theorists:
To find works about Michel Foucault
search Foucault, Michel as a subject heading To find works by Michel Foucault
search Foucault, Michel as an author Finding Journal Articles Using Databases Medical/Scientific Pubmed - index to medical and related journals from the US National Library of Medicine. Social Sciences Academic OneFile, Academic search premier are both interdisciplinary but, from your results, select articles from journals with titles of a sociological, anthropological, economic etc nature.
or use Sociological Abstracts. Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre is international but with a strong Australian emphasis. Mixture of popular and scholarly full text sources- newspapers, Dolly, Natural Health, medical jourmals etc etc. Web ResourcesThe following general medical web sites are searchable for specific diseases and disorders.
They frequently contain information from a variety of sources - scientific, popular, support groups etc. Feminist Collections
From Women's Studies Librarian's Office University of Wisconsin.
Includes: A Look at Women's Health on Alternative Medicine Websites by Ann Boyer. Intute - Medicine
Provides access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. Women's Health on the Womens Studies Database at the University of Maryland. MEDLINEplus from the US National Library of Medicine. National Womens Health InformationCenter (US) Web Sites for Women's Health Women's Health Sites at WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites
developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Part of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library.
Last update: 26 June 2009 Helen Attar
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