Welcome! This guide is designed to support research in WVU's Medical Humanities courses. Each page contains links to relevant resources in the designated area, including books, journals, databases and more. On all pages, you can read a description of each resource by holding your cursor over the black "i" circle. If you're having trouble finding what you need, please don't hesitate to contact a librarian.
Health Humanities Reader by
Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. In Health Humanities Reader, editors Therese Jones, Delese Wear, and Lester D. Friedman have assembled fifty-four leading scholars, educators, artists, and clinicians to survey the rich body of work that has already emerged from the field--and to imagine fresh approaches to the health humanities in these original essays. The collection's contributors reflect the extraordinary diversity of the field, including scholars from the disciplines of disability studies, history, literature, nursing, religion, narrative medicine, philosophy, bioethics, medicine, and the social sciences.
Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease by
"The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on ¿Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease, ¿ held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2005. This volume will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care provider who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which we can understand health, illness and disease."
Each page of this guide contains subject-specific databases that you can use to find peer-reviewed articles. The databases listed below are less specific but make good starting points for virtually any topic.
The following databases are good resources for health and medicine-related articles.
