Searching in Subject Specific Databases

 

PART 1

ANTHROPOLOGY PLUS

Contains scholarly articles in archaeology, biological and physical anthropology, cultural and social anthropology, religious studies, and linguistics.

Brady, B. R., & Bahr, H. M., (2014). The influenza epidemic of 1918-1920 among the Navajos. American Indian Quarterly, 38(4), 459-491. Retrieved from https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2290/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=f984e525-a2c4-46ce-a5fc-8788c86e28ba%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=637247&db=ant

PSYCINFO

Contains scholarly articles related to education, psychiatry, business, medicine, linguistics, nursing, law, and social work.

Yudofsky, S. C., (2009). Contracting schizophrenia: Lessons from the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. Journal of the American Medical Association, 301(3), 324-326. Retrieved from https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2152/psycinfo/docview/621800503/AD52A541E1F84FEDPQ/1?accountid=14902

PUBMED (MEDLINE)

Contains scholarly articles about medicine, health, and allied health and biology.

Short, K. R., Kedzierska, K., & van de Sandt, C. E., (2018). Back to the future: Lessons learned from the 1918 influenza pandemic. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 8(343), 1-19. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00343

Okland, H., & Mamelund, S.E., (2019). Race and 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States: A review of the literature. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(2487), 1-18. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16142487

SOCIAL SCIENCES ABSTRACTS

Contains scholarly articles related to anthropology, criminal justice, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Garrett, T. A., (2009). War and pestilence as labor market shocks: U. S. manufacturing wage growth 1914-1919. Economic Inquiry, 47(4), 711-725. doi: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2008.00137.x

Jones, M. M., & Saines, M., (2019). The eighteen of 1918-1919: Black nurses and the great flu pandemic in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 109(6), 877-884. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305003

   

PART 2

This week, I learned that I can find research information on any given topic in databases I wouldn’t automatically think to look. My assignment was to look through several subject-specific databases for at least three articles related to my topic. I searched through several subject-specific databases and found academic articles related to the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 in journals that focus on economics, public health, psychology, microbiology, and anthropology in addition to the history databases I searched last week. I was pleasantly surprised at how many different topics I could actually research from just this one event in our fairly recent history.

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  1. SamOctober 29, 2020 at 4:48 PM

    Hi Robin. Nice work on all of this--and your citations are in perfect APA format! Thank you for using the DOIs when available. It is okay to leave out the URLs beginning with https://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu... since those will only work for WSU users anyway.--Sam

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