Biology and Eating
Professor
Davis-Spring 2008
Reference Books
Encyclopedia
of Human Biology.
1997. 9 volumes. [Ref. QP 11 .E53]
A very good overview of the
nuts and bolts of how humans work. See articles on Feeding Behavior and
a variety of Food-related topics. Broad and specific: so Eye, Anatomy
and Endometriosis. Use the index!
Encyclopedia
of Human Behavior.
1994. 4 volumes. [Ref. BF 31 .E5]
Scholarly articles on the
psychology and physiology of why we do what we do. Articles on
Appetite, Body Image, and Taste are particularly relevant.
Encyclopedia of Medical
Anthropology.
2004. 2 volumes. [Ref. RA 418 .E354]
A slightly different take
on
the subject. A lengthy article on Nutrition and Health in
volume
1 discusses problems with human physiology and the modern diet. We're
built to be Stone Age hunter-gatherers.
Databases
for General, Non-Technical
Articles
These indexes are available
from the Library webpage under Research Databases, or you can search
for them by name in the library catalog.
Off-campus
access: use
the links under Databases
A to Z rather than these.
Academic Search
Premier
(1975-) is the world's largest database of full text information. It
covers
over 6,000 magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals in all areas
of study. Over 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. This database should always
be your first stop if you need to find an article.
InfoTrac
OneFile
1980 - present
Combines the journals in the other databases
into
one large database for easier searching.
Health
and Wellness Resource Center includes a variety of general
introductions to almost anything health-related. Also includes the full
text of the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, a high-class scholarly
source on things like anorexia. Databases
for Research and Review Articles
ScienceDirect
Searchable database of over 1000 largely scientific and technical
journals, most of which are available full text. To locate
review
articles, use the checkbox under the Journal tab. You can also try
similar databases by other publishers, like Wiley Interscience
and BioOne.
Medline
The value-added version of Pubmed, with
more
full-text. 4800 biomedical journals. There is a checkbox that
allows you to limit your search to review articles.
JSTOR
Full-text database of backfile
(articles published
4-5 years ago) of leading peer-reviewed journals in biology and
anthropology Web
Resources
Pubmed
is the
National Library of Medicine's index to 15 million million
biomedical articles. This is the open web version (i.e., Wofford didn't
pay for it) so there are many fewer full articles available from here.
Webmd covers a wide
range of medical
conditions and health-related issues. More from a consumer's
perspective: how to identify it, how to fix it. Links to good resources.
Google Scholar is
a search engine
for scientific information, primarily books and articles. Pretty good
coverage of biology, but often the links are not free. However, the
library owns or subscribes to lots of the things you'll find here.
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