Women's Studies 321:
Gender, Justice and Health Policy

Spring 2008 · Professor Charlene Galarneau

Contents:

• Find background information
• Find books
• Find scholarly journal articles
• Find articles in the alternative press
• Key websites
• Evaluating what you find

• CQ Researcher - In-depth, unbiased background and analysis on timely political topics, 1923 to present
• Encyclopedia of American Social Movements - Clapp Ref HN57 .E594 2004
• Encyclopedia of Bioethics
• Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. 4 vol. Clapp Ref B51 .R68 1998
• Encyclopedia of Population
• Encyclopedia of Social Theory
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Biomedical Policy - Clapp Ref RA395.A3 E545 1996
• Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z - Clapp Ref RA395.A3 R685 2003
• The New A to Z of Women's Health: A Concise Encyclopedia - Clapp Ref RA778 .A494 2000, Science Ref RA778 .A494 2000
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Portrait of Health in the United States - Science Ref q RA407.3 .P67 2001
• Praeger Handbook of Black American Health: Policies and issues behind disparities in health - Clapp Ref RA448.5.N4 H364 2004
• Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine - Science Ref q RA564.7 .P7545 2004
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Clapp Ref R121 .S8 2000, Science Ref R121 .S8 2000

Use the Wellesley library catalog to find books, videos, and journals (not individual articles).

a few tips:

• use a keyword search to return a broad set of results, or to find resources that reference specific key terms (e.g., health disparities, environmental justice )
• use subject headings to identify more books on a specific topic (find them by clicking on the "Full Record" tab in any catalog record) in our catalog and in NExpress or WorldCat

some useful subject headings for your research might be:

• Social justice
• Medical ethics
• Social medicine
• Health care reform -- United States
• Insurance, Health -- Social aspects -- United States
• Health services accessibility -- United States
• Right to health care -- United States

• Minorities -- Medical care -- United States
• African American women -- Medical care
• Hispanic Americans -- Medical care
• Health and race -- United States
• Racism -- Health aspects -- United States
• Discrimination in medical care -- United States
  
  

• if our copy is checked out, click on to the right of the title to request a book quickly (2-4 days)
• If NExpress doesn't have it, click on in our catalog (2-4 days)
• Search WorldCat to find material we don’t own, click on and request through ILL (interlibrary loan)
• In a hurry? Get a BLC card and borrow the book directly from a nearby library

relevant databases

• Women's Studies International
• Academic Search Premier
• Web of Science
• PubMed
• Project Muse (recent articles) / JSTOR (older articles)

find more databases on the Databases A - Z page

find journals (you can browse tables of contents for research ideas)

• bioethics journals
• feminist theory journals
• health policy journals (including law)
• law journals focusing on women and gender
• law journals focusing on african american constituencies
• law journals focusing on asian american constituences
• law journals focusing on latin@ and hispanic constituencies
• journals focusing on disability (including law)

• Alt-Press Watch
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• GenderWatch
  

• Bioethics Resources from the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics - Links to bioethics organizations and publications, as well as theological, governmental, and feminist philosophical sources
• Bioethics Resources on the Web - National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
• National Academies Press (NAP) - Browse recent online studies in categories such as Medicine/Public Health and Science and Ethics.
• Public health news and news releases, from the American Public Health Association.
• World Health News, news digests from Harvard University's School of Public Health.
• The Kaiser Family Foundation
• The Commonwealth Fund
• Health Policy Links, and health policy summaries, from Moving Ideas: the Electronic Policy Network.
• Health Issues, from the National Center for Policy Analysis.
• National Health Policy Forum
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Institute for Women's Policy Research
• Center for Women Policy Research
  

Critically evaluate what you find

Criteria to keep in mind when choosing and using soures:

• Accuracy - Does the author cite her/his sources and are they legitimate?
• Authority - Who wrote the source? Are they credible?
• Objectivity - Does the author have a bias, political or commercial or persuasive?
• Currency - Is this information new or based on outdated sources? Can you tell how current it is?

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Alana Kumbier • last modified: February 26, 2008