Women's Health Pathfinder

Scope, LC & Dewey Call Numbers

NLM Call Numbers

Subject Headings

Abstracts & Indexes

Bibliographies

Directories & Yearbooks

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Handbooks & Guides

Books

Statistics

Atlases

Journals/Periodicals

Databases

Websites

Video & Audio

Associations

Scope:

This pathfinder includes sources that provide women's health information for the layperson, researcher, or reference librarian. Hot topics in this sub-category of the health sciences include the HPV vaccine, parthenogenesis (the making of viable embryos from two eggs), breast cancer, embryology, and cryobiology. NOTE: I have included subject headings and call numbers for things such as cryobiology and cytology. These subjects are peripheral to women's health but contain information about the hot topics listed above.

Abstracts & Indexes:

American Health Research Institute. (1984). Women & women's rights: A medical, psychological &

international subject survey with research index and bibliography (1st ed). Washington, D.C.: ABBE Publishers Association of Washington, D.C.

Women studies abstracts, 1972-, (ISSN: 0049-7835)

"Abstracts important scholarly research in women studies, covering 30 key areas, from education, physical and mental health to employment, interpersonal relations, literature and the arts." (Description from Ulrich's Periodicals Directory database.)

Women's health perspectives, 1988-1990, (ISSN: 1043-9951)

Vol.1 (1988), Vol.2 (1989), Vol.3 (1990). Continued by Annual review of women's health (SEE entry under Directories & Yearbooks section.)

Bibliographies:

Cunningham, N.A. (1997-). Women's health: A guide to resources. Retrieved March 1, 2007, from

SUNY University at Buffalo, Health Sciences Library site:

http://ublib.buffalo.edu.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/resources/guides/womenhealth.html

Hubbard, R., Henifin, M.S., & Fried, B. (Eds.). (1982). Biological woman—the convenient myth: A

collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Company.
Feminist perspective. Includes a chapter, "Bibliography: Women, Science, and Health," by Naomi Weisstein.

Ulincy, L.D. (1993). Health care for women: Access, utilization, outcomes: January 1990 through

July 1993: 580 citations. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Reference Section.
This is a government document available through the Government Printing Office, among other places.

Directories & Yearbooks:

Annual review of women's health, 1993-1996, (ISSN: 1073-1695)

Published annually by the National League for Nursing Press in New York, NY.

Continues Women's health perspectives. (SEE entry under Abstracts & Indexes section.)

National Association of Women's Health Professionals. (1989). Directory of women's health care

centers. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias:

Ammer, C. (2005). The new A to Z of women's health: A concise encylopedia (5th ed.). New York:

Checkmark Books/Facts on File.

Gay, K. (2002). Encyclopedia of women's health issues. Westport, CT: Oryx Press.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (1996). The Planned Parenthood women's health

encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks.

Rinzler, C.A. (1996). Why Eve doesn't have an Adam's apple: A dictionary of sex differences.

New York: Facts on File.

Handbooks & Guides:

Carlson, K.J., Eisenstat, S.A., & Ziporyn, T.D. (2004). The new Harvard guide to women's health.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Danforth, D.N. (2003). Danforth's obstetrics and gynecology (9th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott

Williams & Wilkins.

Leveno, K.J. (2007). William's manual of obstetrics (22nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

Rosenfeld, J.A. (2001). Handbook of women's health: An evidence-based approach.

Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

United States, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Council on Patient

Information and Education. (2005). Las mujeres y los medicamentos lo que usted necesita saber. Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
The title translated is "Women and the Medications They Should Know." This is a government document available in PDF form at: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS76482.

Wingood, G.M. (2002). Handbook of women's sexual and reproductive health. New York: Kluwer

Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Books:

Aguirre-Molina, M. (2003). Latina health in the United States: A public health reader (1st ed.).

San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Boston Women's Health Book Collective. (2005). Our bodies, ourselves: A new edition for a new era

(35th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster.
This is the 35th Anniversary edition of the book that was first published in 1970. It has a companion website. (SEE entry under Websites section.) This book has been used in female biology courses and is a comprehensive book on all issues pertaining to women's health.

DiSaia, P.J., & Creasman, W.T. (2007). Clinical gynecologic oncology (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO:

Elsevier Mosby.

Gabbe, S.G., Niebyl, J.R., & Simpson, J.L. (2007). Obstetrics: Normal and problem pregnancies

(5th ed.). Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier.

Harris, J.R. (2004). Diseases of the breast (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Speroff, L., Glass, R.H., & Kase, N.G. (1999). Clinical gynecologic endocrinology and infertility

(6th ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Suomalainen, E., Saura, A., & Lokki, J. (1987). Cytology and evolution in parthenogenesis.

Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
This is a good book to find out more about parthenogenesis, or the making of viable embryos from two eggs. It includes bibliographies and an index. Not a general work on women's health.

World Health Organization. (1992). Women's health: Across age and frontier. Geneva, Switzerland:

World Health Organization.
This is an international government publication authored and published by the WHO.

Statistics:

Horton, J. (1998). State profiles on women's health (1st ed.). Washington, D.C.: Jacobs Institute of

Women's Health.
Includes statistics of women's health in the United States and bibliographical references.

Leigh, W.A., & Huff, D. (2006). Women of color health data book: Adolescents to seniors (3rd ed.).

Bethesda, MD: Office of Research on Women's Health, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health.
This is a government publication that includes statistics on the health of women of color in the United States.

Atlases:

Baggish, M.S., & Karram, M.M. (2006). Atlas of pelvic anatomy and gynecologic surgery (2nd ed.).

Philadelphia: Saunders, Elsevier.

Jatoi, I., Kaufmann, M., & Petit, J.Y. (2006). Atlas of breast surgery. New York: Springer.

Journals/Periodicals:

Archives of women's mental health, 1998-, (ISSN: 1434-1816)

Gynecological endocrinology, 1987-, (ISSN: 0951-3590)

Journal of midwifery & women's health, 1955-, (ISSN: 1526-9523)

Journal of women & aging, 1989-, (ISSN: 0895-2841)

Journal of women's health, 1992-, (ISSN: 1540-9996)

Obstetrics and gynecology, 1952-, (ISSN: 0029-7844)

Women & health, 1976-, (ISSN: 0363-0242)

Databases:

NOTE: Some of these are subscription-only databases, which means you will have access to them

only through an academic or public library that subscribes to the database. Others are publicly accessible through the Internet. The links take you to the University at Buffalo Libraries' product description pages. These pages are publicly accessible so you can determine the database's time coverage and what journal articles they index. If it is a subscription database, you will be able to enter it if you are a member of the UB community. If you are not a member of the UB community, check your college or public library's website to see if it subscribes to the database. A separate link is provided for publicly accessible databases.

Academic Search Premier (subscription-only)

Database that includes periodical literature on multiple disciplines.

Access Science (subscription-only)

Encyclopedic database for beginning your scientific research.

BIOSIS Previews (subscription-only)

All things biology-related.

GenderWatch (subscription-only)

Database that covers all women's issues, inlcuding health.

Health Reference Center-Academic (subscription-only)

Database that includes popular works as well as scholarly ones.

LactMed (public access)

U.S. National Library of Medicine

Drugs and Lactation Database

http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT

Peer-reviewed, scholarly literature.

MEDLINE (via ISI Web of Knowledge) (subscription-only)

U.S. National Library of Medicine

ISI Web of Knowledge interface

MEDLINE (via Ovid) (subscription-only)

U.S. National Library of Medicine

Ovid interface

PubMed (public access)

U.S. National Library of Medicine

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed

Provides the citations to all the articles in MEDLINE. If you don't have access to MEDLINE, you can find the information you need here and interlibrary loan it at your local public library.

Web of Science (subscription-only)

This is a citation index, which means it is useful for researchers interested in finding articles written by an author who cites another particular author. You can surf from article to article through the authors' bibliographies.

Websites:

Breast Cancer Home Page

National Cancer Institute

Government site that features information about breast cancer, clinical trials, research, and cancer statistics.

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast

Maternal and Child Health Bureau

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

Health Resources and Services Administration

http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health

A Research Center of Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute

Includes a library of publications, databases, and non-English materials.

http://www.ncemch.org

National SIDS/Infant Death Resource Center

Works with the MCHB (SEE Maternal and Child Health Bureau entry above.)

"Resources about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other unexpected infant death, stillbirth, and miscarriage." (Description from the NSIDRC site.)

Includes a section in Spanish.

http://www.sidscenter.org

National Women's Health Information Center

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services

Office of Women's Health

Government site that provides free information on over 800 topics.

Topics in English and Spanish via the call center.

http://www.4women.gov/

Our Bodies, Ourselves Companion Website

Boston Women's Health Book Collective

SEE entry under Books section for the matching book.

http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

This nonprofit organization is active in women's health issues and access. The site provides information about these topics, as well as activism topics and a directory of their health centers. Planned Parenthood health centers are a good source for uninsured women who cannot afford to see a gynecologist for their pelvic and breast exams.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/

Sex Information and Education Council of Canada

In Canada, "a national non-profit educational organization established in 1964 to foster public and professional education about human sexuality." (Description from the SIECCAN site.)

Publishes the Canadian journal of human sexuality, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal.

http://www.sieccan.org/

Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States

Similar to SIECCAN, but for the United States.

Statistics, inlcuding state and country profiles; activist materials; and fact sheets.

http://www.siecus.org/

United States National Library of Medicine

National Institutes of Health

Government site that includes online exhibits and sources for health care professionals, researchers, publishers, librarians, and the public. You can access PubMed and LactMed databases through this site.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

Video & Audio:

Cubillos, J., Frost, S., Mowry, E., Pollard, R.Q., & Betts, W. (2003). My body, my responsibility:

A health education video for deaf women [videocassette]. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Medical Center.

Ebin, V. (2002). Speaking out: Women, AIDS, and hope [videocassette]. New York: Women Make

Movies.

Films for the Humanities (Firm). (2003). Now is our time: Healthy living for women 40-55

[videocassette]. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Minkin, M.J., Wright, C.V., & Schraf, K. (2006). A woman's guide to menopause & perimenopause

[CD]. Fremont, CA: STI/Health Text Audio.

Peeke, P. (2005). Body-for-life for women: A woman's plan for physical and mental transformation

[CD]. New York: Audio Renaissance.

Associations:

NOTE: These are good sources of information about women's health and careers in women's

health. (Addresses and URL's found in Associations Unlimited database.)

ACCESS/Women's Health Rights Coalition

P.O. Box 3609
Oakland, CA 94609
USA
http://www.whrc-access.org/

American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)

211 N Union St., Ste. 100
Alexandria, VA 22314
USA
http://www.amwa-doc.org/

Black Women's Health Imperative

1420 K St. NW, 10th Fl., Ste. 1000
Washington, DC 20005
USA
http://www.blackwomenshealth.org/

Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN)

Le Reseau Canadien pour la Sante des Femmes (RCSF)

419 Graham Ave., Ste. 203
Winnipeg, MB
Canada R3C 0M3
http://www.cwhn.ca/

Comunicacion Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina, A.C. (CIDHAL)

("Communication Exchange and Human Development in Latin America")
Calle de las Flores No. 11
Col. Acapantzingo CP 62440
Cuernavaca, Morelos
Mexico
http://www.cidhal.org/

Federation of American Scientists (FAS)

1717 K St. NW, Ste. 209
Washington, DC 20036
USA
http://www.fas.org/

International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)

333 7th Ave., 6th Fl.
New York, NY 10001
USA
http://www.iwhc.org/

National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)

1627 K St. NW, 12th Fl.
Washington, DC 20006
USA
http://www.nfprha.org/

National Latina Health Network (NLHN)

2201 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Ste. 340
Washington, DC 20007
USA
http://www.nlhn.net/

Women in Health Care Management (WHCM)

84 Fenwick Rd.
Newton, MA 02468
USA
http://www.whcm.org/

Oral presentation given 06 March 2007.
Pathfinder created 07 April 2007.
Last updated 21 April 2007.
Copyright: Karlen Chase, 2007.
Woman Symbol image from http://www.time4health.com.
Thank you: Renee Bush, Associate Librarian, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo, for reviewing and making suggestions for additions, 19 April 2007.