Journals
These journals are dedicated to the history of nursing and medicine.
Databases
Recommended databases that include articles about well known figures in nursing and medicine.
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
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Scholarly journal articles about nursing and allied health including nursing interventions, education, theory, and history as well as physical and occupational therapy.
- PubMedScholarly journal articles about health and medicine, nursing, audiology, and biology.
- American National Biography Online
Portraits of more than 17,400 men and women whose lives have shaped the nation. Access limited to 6 users at a time.
- America: History and Life
Scholarly articles about the history of the United States and Canada.
- JSTOREssential scholarly journals in health and nursing.
- Project MUSEFull text access to journals and ebooks in classics, education, history, literature, math, philosophy, politics, religion, and visual and performing arts.
Find Historical Articles in PubMed
Best tip: Search your topic in the History of Medicine subset within PubMed.
- Go to PubMed
- Select Topic-Specific Queries located under PubMed Tools
- Select History of Medicine and run your search.
Other search tips:
1. Apply the subheading /history (or /hi) to a Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) or your search topic
- Enter MeSH term in search box: leeching/hi
- Enter Keyword in search box: cancer AND history[sh]
2. Search a personal name as a subject, such as Lillian Wald, using the abbreviation [PS]
- Enter in search box: Wald L[ps]
3. Search a person as an author.
- Wald L[au]
4. Limit search of a person using filters "Biography," "Portraits," or "Personal Narratives" found under Article Types on left side of search screen
- Nightingale F
Find Historical Articles in CINAHL
Search your topic using these examples:
1. Use keywords with the option of specifying where your term(s) should appear in the article using the drop-down box.
- leech* and histor* The asterisk is a truncation symbol.
2. Use CINAHL Headings and select History as a subheading for that term.
- Leech therapy/History
3. Search a historical person and limit to author (AU) or as Named Person (NP) from the drop down box.
- Wald, L in NP Named Person
- Wald, L in AU Author
- Lillian Wald (searched as a phrase)
