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This guide is a list of major sources in the field of Medical Sociology. Consult the Catalogue to cover the subject more extensively. The categories of sources you will find on these pages are:
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Reference Books
In addition to the many monographs that cover this field in the UNSW Library there are dictionaries and encyclopedias which are able to provide brief information and definitions of the sociology of medicine
SREF 301.03/13B
Penguin Dictionary of Sociology 3rd ed.
Ringwood: Penguin, 1994.
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The concise Oxford dictionary of Sociology. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994.
SREF 301.03/6
Encyclopedia of Sociology
Guildford,Connecticut: Dushkin, 1973.
MBREF 610.3/93 (1-2)
Oxford Companion To Medicine
Oxford: University Press, 1986
MB614.2/10H
Handbook of Medical Sociology 4td ed.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall,1989.
Print Indexes and Abstracts
SREF970.005/2
America: History and Life Vol. 1, 1965+
Search under
- Sociology-Medicine
SREF300.5/80
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts) Vol. 1987+
Search under
- Medical Sociology
SREF301.3205/6
CHOMI DAS (CLEARING HOUSE ON MIGRATION ISSUES DOCUMENTATION & ABSTRACTS SERVICE) Vol. 1 (1975)- Vol. 14, (1990)
Clearing House on Migration Issues
Search under
- Health
SREF301/512
CRIS
- Combined Retrospective Index Set To Journals In Sociology 1895-1974
Search in- Volume 3 Institutions includes Health & Medical Systems Structures
SREF301.05/8
International Bibliography of Sociology. London: Routledge
v.5 (1955)+
Search under
- Medical Sociology
Review Journals
SQ305/9
Social Science & Medicine
Vol. 12 (Jan. 1978)-
S362.105/49
Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 1, no. 1
(June 1979)-
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Research in the Sociology of Health Care.
Vol.2 (1982)-
SREF 301.05/37
Sociological Abstracts
Search under
- Medical Sociology
VOL 1 (1953)-
Also available on CD-ROM as Sociofile
SREF 305.405/15
Women Studies Abstracts Vol. 1 1972+
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- Medicine
In the Physical Sciences Library
PREF 509.05/2
ISIS- A bibliography of the history of Science
Search under
- Medical Ethics
- Medicine
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CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health)Password required for all users
Search under
- Sociology
- Group Processes
EMBASE(Excerpta Medica)
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- Sociology
HealthStar
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- Sociology-Medicine
Medline
Password required for all users
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- Sociology, Medical
- Sociology
PAIS Bulletin (Public Affairs Information Service)
Sociofile 1974+
Search underSocial Sciences Index
- Medical Sociology
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- Sociology-Medicine
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