SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH CARE: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

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PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES

Academic Search Complete

Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering a wide variety of academic areas of study

 

Alt-Health Watch

Full text articles from 170+ peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care

 

ATLA Religion Database

Index to articles, book reviews, and essays in religion and theology

 

CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health)

Index to over 500 nursing and health publications

 

Electronic Journals Center

Full-text indexing service for over 2000 online scholarly and research journals

 

Arts and Humanities, Science, and Social Science Citation Indexes

Covers over 1100 journals in the arts and humanities, 6,000 major journals in over 150 scientific disciplines and 1,700 scholarly social sciences journals in 50 related disciplines 

 

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 medicine

 

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

 

PsychINFO

Provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral and mental health sciences

 

Psychology and Behavioral Science

A comprehensive database with more than 510 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods

 

Periodicals available in the KC library

Journal of Christian Nursing

Making the Rounds in Health, Faith, & Ethics (1995-1996)

Second Opinion (incomplete holdings through 1995)

 

Periodicals available through the Electronic Journal Center

Journal of Religion and Health

 

INTERNET RESOURCES ON THIS TOPIC
Below are some related sites on the World Wide Web:

The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health

http://www.gwish.org/
"The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health (GWish) is a university-based organization working toward a more compassionate system of healthcare."

 

University of Washington School of Medicine: Spirituality and Medicine

http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/spirit.html
This web site is intended to assist physicians in finding "ways to engage the spiritual beliefs of patients in the healing process, and come to a clearer understanding of ways in which the physician's own belief system can be accounted for in transactions with patients."

 

Duke Center for the Study of Religion, Spirituality and Health

http://www.spiritualityandhealth.duke.edu/
"The purpose of the Center is to conduct research on the effects of religion (or spirituality) on physical and mental health. "

 

Spirituality and Health at Medical University of South Carolina

http://www.musc.edu/dfm/Spirituality/Spirituality.htm
The Spirituality and Health Interest Group at MUSC is a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and students who are interested in encouraging education and research regarding spirituality and health matters.

 

James Gagne, MD: Spirituality and Medicine

http://www.jamesgagne.com/SpiritualOverview.shtml
Dr.Gagne, and internist, presents a personal perspective on spirituality and medicine."