Brandi's Research Blog

Part One: My Research question (thus far) is:  How do traditional medical systems, outside of Western biomedicine, approach the treatment of mood disorders? Part Two:  a. The main concepts in my research question are: traditional medicine and mood disorders. b. Search Statement: (Ethnomedicine OR Traditional Medicine) AND mood disorder* c. Used in ASC:  ethnomedicine OR "traditional medicine" AND "mood disorder*" "Ayurved*" AND "mood disorder*" "Chinese medicine" AND "mood disorder*"  acupuncture AND "mood disorder*" "native American* AND "traditional medicine" AND "mental health" "indigenous people*" AND "traditional medicine" AND "mood disorder*" "indigenous people*" AND "traditional medicine" AND "mental health" d. Database Limiters used: peer reviewed, publication date Part Three: Thi...

Part one: Looking up subject terms My search terms and their corresponding subject terms were: 1. "Ethnomedicine" Subject terms= TRADITIONAL medicine, ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY 2. "Mood disorders" Subject terms= AFFECTIVE disorders, MOOD research Part two: Reflection What part of this lesson did you find useful?   This exercise provided a great refresher for me on Boolean phrases. Although I was previously aware of how to utilize them, I feel like this gave me a few reminders and new ideas on how I might be able to put them to work for me on my current topic. The subject terms are not something I have really paid all that much attention to before and will be helpful for looking at future research topics.  How do you intend to use these skills for future searches?   I always forget about using the asterisk for truncation! This will make my time spent searching much shorter if I remember to do this instead of searching plural and other forms of my terms. I have ...

1. Electronic Reference I chose to use Sage eReference for my search and the book that I chose to use was The Encyclopedia of Anthropology and the entry title was “Ethnomedicine”   http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2090/10.4135/9781412952453.n302 Some new information that I found from this source are:  Founding people in the field including William Caudill and Stephen Polgar. More detailed descriptions of what ethnomedicine and traditional medicine represent such as explanatory models and health constructs. I also found that there is a differentiation between “old ethnomedicine” and “new ethnomedicine”; The old approach excluded biomedicine as a form of ethnomedicine while the new ethnomedicine recognizes biomedicine as a form of ethnomedicine. Some subtopics that I read about were: c ulture bound medical disorders, types of ethnomedicine, and changes in the field of ethnomedicine over time.  Potential research questions include: Does the utilization of other ...