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CHRISTIANITY AND HEALTH CARE: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

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KC/Wright State and Affiliates Catalog
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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, 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

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Useful MeSH SUBJECT HEADINGS for this topic:

Religion and medicine

Useful LC CALL NUMBERS on this subject:

	BD300-450		Ontology. Being. The soul. Life. Death
	BJ1188-1295		Religious ethics
	BL115 .M25		Christianity and Medicine
	BR1-1725		Christianity
	BS1-2970		The Bible
	BT10-1480		Christian Doctrine. Doctrinal theology
	BX1-9999		Christian Denominations
	HQ1073-1073.5		Thanatology. Death. Dying
	HV1-9960		Social and Public Welfare
	QH426-470		Genetics
	QH471-489		Reproduction
	QH501-531		Life (biology)

Useful NLM CALL NUMBERS on this subject:

	W60		Medical Ethics
	W61		Medical philosophy and logic
	W 85.5		Right to die
	WB310		Terminal Care
	WB880		Mind-body interactions. Mental healing
	WB885		Faith healing

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REFERENCE RESOURCES

	R BL31 .E46		The Encyclopedia of Religion
	R BR95 .E8913 1999		The Encyclopedia of Christianity
	R HM 846 S43 2005		Science, Technology and Society: An Encyclopedia
	R W50 R279 2003		Religious Traditions and Healthcare Decisions
	R W 84.1 A567 2005		Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Reference Manual for Health Care Providers
	R WB60 E56278 2004		Encyclopedia of Bioethics
	R WZ 330 R822e 2000		Encyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud

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PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES

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 KC library

Christianity Today

Journal of Christian Nursing

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:

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://ethics.missouri.edu/
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