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CHRISTIANITY AND HEALTH CARE: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

KCMA Online Catalog

Useful LC SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:
Body, Human--religious aspects
Chrsitian sociology
Chrisianity
Chrisianity and justice
Church work groups--health aspects
Cloning--religious aspects
Community--religious aspects
Creeds
Death--religious aspects
Embryology, human--religious aspects
Euthanasia--religious aspects
Good and evil--religious aspects
Healing--religious aspects
Healing in the bible
Health--religious aspects
Hospital care--religious aspects
Human genetics--religious aspects
Human reproduction--religious aspects
Life--religious aspects
Medical care--religious aspects
Medical care, cost of
Medical ethics--religious aspects
Medicine--religious aspects
Nursing--religious aspects
Older people--medical care--religious aspects
Pain--religious aspects
Right to die--religious aspects
Right to health care--religious aspects
Social justice--religious aspects
Spiritual healing
Stem Cells--research--religious aspects
Stewardship, Christian
Suffering--religious aspects
Suicide--religious aspects
Terminal care--religious aspects
Tragic the--religious aspects
Transplantation of Organs, Tissues, Etc--religious apsects
Wealth-religious aspects

Note: to focus your search specifically to Christian aspects regarding a topic, many headings with the subheading "religious aspects" can be further limited by the subheading "Christianity"

Example: Body, human--religious aspects--Christianity

Useful MeSH SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:

Religion and medicine

Useful LC CALL NUMBERS on this subject:
BD300-450Ontology. Being. The soul. Life. Death
BJ1188-1295Religious ethics
BL115 .M25Christianity and Medicine
BR1-1725Christianity
BS1-2970The Bible
BT10-1480Christian Doctrine. Doctrinal theology
BX1-9999Christian Denominations
HQ1073-1073.5Thanatology. Death. Dying
HV1-9960Social and Public Welfare
QH426-470Genetics
QH471-489Reproduction
QH501-531Life (biology)

Useful NLM CALL NUMBERS on this subject:
W60Medical Ethics
W61Medical philosophy and logic
W 85.5Right to die
WB310Terminal Care
WB880Mind-body interactions. Mental healing
WB885Faith healing

OhioLINK Central Catalog

Provides access to the holdings of all OhioLINK member libaries

REFERENCE RESOURCES

R BL31 .E46 The Encyclopedia of Religion
R BL245 .H57 2000 The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition
R BR95 .E8913 1999 The Encyclopedia of Christianity
R HM 846 S43 2005Science, Technology and Society: An Encyclopedia
R W13 E5526 2004Encyclopedia of Health Care Management
R W50 R279 2003Religious Traditions and Healthcare Decisions
R WB880 K78h 2001Handbook of Religion and Health
R WA540 AA1 K9he 2004Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook (on Social Issues shelf)
R WA540 AA1 R775h 2000Health Care Policy & Politics A to Z
R WB60 E56278 2004Encyclopedia of Bioethics
R WZ 330 R822e 2000Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud

FIND ARTICLES

PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES
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ATLA Religion Database
Index to articles, book reviews, and essays in religion and theology
Arts and Humanitites and Social Sciences Citation Index
Citations and cited references from over 1,100 arts and humanities journals and over 1700 journals in the social sciences
Religion and Philosophy Collection
A comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy with over 290 full text journals
CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health)
Index to over 1500 nursing and health publications
Electronic Journals Center
Full-text indexing service for over 2000 online scholarly and research journals
Health Source (Academic)
Provides access to nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 627 journals
MEDLINE
International index to journals in the biomedical sciences
Academic Search Complete
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering a wide variety of academic areas of study
Periodicals available in the KCMA library
Christianity Today
Journal of Christian Nursing
Periodicals available through the Electronic Journal Center
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Journal of Religion and Health

INTERNET RESOURCES ON THIS TOPIC
Below are some related sites on the World Wide Web:
Bioethics.net
http://bioethics.net
This site is intended to "promote scholarly and public understanding of the ethical. legal, social and public policy implications of the advances in the life sciences and medicine."

Bioethics Resources on the Web
http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/
Provided by the National Institutes of Health, these resources provide background information and various positions on issues in bioethics

Center for Health Ethics
http://hmi.missouri.edu/ethics/links.htm
Maintained by the University of Missouri, this site provides links to academic ethics centers.

Center for Practical Bioethics
http://www.practicalbioethics.org/
The center seeks to solve moral problems by educating and empowering healthcare professionals; provides information and links to other useful websites.

The Hastings Center
http://www.thehastingscenter.org
The Hastings Center is recognized as the leading organization in advanced research and studies in biomedical ethics.

Best Information on the Net: Health Care Reform
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Religion/relindex.htm
A collection of web sites on health care reform maintained by O'Keefe Library at St. Ambrose University. The "Other Religions" link provides access to a menu of links on non-Christian religions.

Virtual Religion Index: Ethics and Moral Values
http://virtualreligion.net/vri/
A guide to web based research on religion from Rutgers University