PHS Library Resource Page for Mrs. Carter
The Human Body - Recommended Links- Virtual Human Body - Interactive virtual tour of various body systems
- The Human Body - from the British Broadcasting Corporation. Scroll down to find links to various subjects of the human body
- Atlas of the Human Body - from the American Medical Association. A good source of detailed diagrams for your presentation.
Disease Report Project
Finding general information about your disease (including symptoms, transmission, diagnosis, and treatment)
- Medline Plus - when researching a particular disease, this site is a good place to begin. Put together by the National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions. It is meant for use by both Health Professionals and consumers and may provide you sufficient information for questions 1-6.
- Discovery Health Homepage - from the Discovery Channel; covers a variety of topics and disorders
Researching the History of a Disease
This part of the assignment can be a bit difficult. We recommend you begin with the book that's available in the library: Encyclopedia of Infectious Diseases - 616.9 Tur in the Reference Section.
Here are a few links that may help as well:
- History of Diseases - contains links to articles about the history and discovery of various disorders
- History of the Health Sciences
- Medicine Through Time - from the British Broadcasting Corporation; navigate through the time periods linked on this page.
Articles and case studies - you may also find good articles and case studies on your research topic in one of our subscription databases. For this assignment, we recommend that you use:
- Health Source: Consumer Edition, and
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Both of these databases are available through the library's Ebsco subscription. (If you're doing research from home, the username is: OSLIS and the password is: high.) When you get to the page where you may select databases, click in the box next to both.
Search tip - when looking for your disease and its "treatment" or "history" or "vaccine", make sure to use the word [and] to join your terms. You will also want to limit your results to "full text."
