Sexuality, Women and Gender Studies 410 | Fall 2015

Epidemics and Society: AIDS and Ebola

Listed in: Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, as SWAG-410, Sahar Sadjadi (Section 01)

Questions about this guide? Contact

Blake E. Doherty

Overview

This guide provides a selection of interdisciplinary online databases that may be useful for searching for books, articles, and primary source material for this course.

In our library session, we will use a concept map to map out your research.

A concept map can be really helpful as you move into the research process. It

... serves as a visual tool for organizing ideas
... uses free association
... aids in developing questions
... reveals themes and patterns
... helps you generate search terms.

Example:

WHO are the important / influential people involved with my topic? This could also be a group or organization rather than an individual. Who is the audience or end user?

WHAT are some examples of or cases associated with this topic? What are important aspects?

WHEN – what time period(s) are appropriate to this topic? Has it been around for a long time, or is it new? How did it originate? If it is historical, what are the important milestone dates in its history?

WHERE – is it tied to a specific country, state, city or geographic area? Has it been relocated to multiple places and if so, where? What is the importance of place to my topic?

WHY is this topic/idea important –to others, and to me?

In addition to this guide, you may want to consult the Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies Research Guide.

Databases

AnthroSource (1988 to present)
Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource indexes 100 years of anthropological material.
Ethnic NewsWatch (1959 to present)
News and analysis from ethnic popular and scholarly publications.
GenderWatch (1970 to present)
Full text of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
PAIS Index (1972 to present)
Coverage of articles, selected books, government documents, research reports, etc., from a wide range of social sciences.
Anthropological Index Online (1970 to present)
Index to current periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library)
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975 to present)
Covers international journals in political science and its complementary fields.
Sociological Abstracts (1952 to present)
Covers the international literature in sociology and related disciplines.
Sociology Database (ProQuest) (1985 to present)
Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more.
Women's Studies International (1972 to present)
Interdisciplinary, covers the latest scholarship in feminist research.
Alt-PressWatch (1970 to present)
Full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
PubMed (1966 to present)
Premiere biomedical index, includes MEDLINE and links to molecular biology databases.

Data

iPOLL
Database contains survey questions and answers asked in the US over the last 70+ years by more than 150 survey organizations. Create a personal registration for access to full features.
Statistical Insight (ProQuest)
Searches U.S. federal government (1974-present), international intergovernmental (1983-present), state government and privately published documents (1981-present) that contain statistics. Many tables are available online as images or Excel files.
WDI Online (1960 to present)
World Development Indicators providing international social and economic statistics from the World Bank.
Public Opinion Research Archive (Roper Center)
Archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. Create a personal registration to access datasets and full features.

News

Access World News (Newsbank) (date coverage varies)
Electronic editions of over 2,600 local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as 1,500 international sources. Fully searchable and browsable by map.
LexisNexis Academic (Now called: Nexis Uni) (date coverage varies)
Full-text federal and state laws, international legal materials, and law reviews. Also newspapers, business information and company profiles.
Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.
Ethnic NewsWatch (1959 to present)
News and analysis from ethnic popular and scholarly publications.
Television News Archive (1968 to present)
Searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN), selected content from PBS and FOX News.
Alternative Press Index (1969 to present)
Covers alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

Websites

UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS - You can search this website for particular regions, populations, and other keywords to find news, press releases, data, and information about the UN's work in those areas.

Custom Google search of NGO pages - Using this search created by David Oldenkamp at Indiana University and James Jacobs at Stanford, you can search the websites of NGOs for information on your topic.

UN Research Guide from Berkeley: This guide provides information about the UN and its programs. In the "health" tab, you can find health-related organizations, data, databases, and books from the UN.

Georgetown University Library HIV/AIDS Research Guide - While the "Books" and "Articles" tabs in this guide are geared toward Georgetown users, the majority of the resources in the other tabs are freely available on the web.

Ebola Resources

The resources listed below will provide more specific information for your Ebola seminars. Many of the sources listed in the other tabs of this guide will be useful to you as well.

Basics

CDC Fact Sheet on the 2014 epidemic

WHO FAQ on Ebola

Data

World Health Organization Data - Data and statistics on the Ebola epidemic from 2014-2015

University of Michigan Ebola Resources Guide - guide to data visualization on the Ebola epidemic

See also: "News" tab in this guide

Books in the Library

The economic impact of the 2014 ebola epidemic : short- and medium-term estimates for West Africa.

Ebola : the natural and human history of a deadly virus / David Quammen.

Search the library catalog for more books on your topic

Videos in the Library

Frontline - Ebola Outbreak - 2014 Frontline episode about the Ebola epidemic (assessible via Kanopy streaming video)

Scholarly Literature

Cultural Anthropology series: Ebola in Perspective - The essays collected here explore the political landscapes that make the state itself both a vector for and victim of this disease; the social realities of funeral practices, both their limits and their potential for change; the media coverage of the disease and the complex ways in which information flows in and around the region; the way Ebola discourse has entered popular culture, occult narratives, and the diasporic imaginary; and the complicated ways it links to the region’s history of violence.

Limn: Issue #5: Ebola's Ecologies: This issue of Limn on “Ebola’s Ecologies” examines how the 2014 Ebola outbreak has put the norms, practices, and institutional logics of global health into question, and examines the new assemblages that are being forged in its wake. The contributions focus on various domains of thought and practice that have been implicated in the current outbreak, posing questions such as: What has been learned about the ambitions and the limits of humanitarian medical response? What insights are emerging concerning the contemporary organization of global health security? To what extent have new models of biotechnical innovation been established in the midst of the crisis?

See also, "Databases" tab of this guide.

Reflections / Responses

WHO: One year into the Ebola epidemic - One year after the first Ebola cases started to surface in Guinea, WHO is publishing this series of 14 papers that take an in-depth look at West Africa’s first epidemic of Ebola virus disease.

UN Women - Action to Confront the Crisis - Actions taken by UN Women in response to Ebola crisis

Global Ebola Response - UN site documenting Ebola response.

Library Sexuality, Women and Gender Studies 410

Section Navigation