Brandi's Research Blog

Part One: 1.        Allardt, E. 1993. “Having, Loving, Being: An Alternative to the Swedish Model of Welfare Research.” In Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life, 88-94. Clarendon Press, Oxford. ·          Book ·          I would use Search It via the library page ·          This book can be accessed online through Oxford University press ebooks. It is also available at the Holland Terrell library and through Summit. 2.        Beck, Ulrich. 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Sage, London. ·          Book ·          I would first use Search It ·          Can be requested from Holland Terrell library or Tri-cities library and summit libraries. ...

This week we explored google scholar: What search terms or search phrases did you use to search Google Scholar? Traditional medicine AND "Mood disorders" Ethnomedicine AND "Mood disorders" Alternative medicine AND "mood disorders" Alternative treatments AND "Bipolar" · What limiters did you use? Relevance   · What did you find here that you have not seen in the databases? I found the "related searches" links at the bottom of the results to be helpful. More so than the topic links provided by the library databases.   · How did this search process compare with the library databases you have been using? Was it easier or more difficult? I found google scholar easy to use but the library databases and books are still most useful for my topic. I found that I was having to weed through some irrelevant information but I also found many of the articles from searching a variety of subject specific database...

The Three Databases and articles I found this week are: 1. From PsychInfo Assad, T., Okasha, T., Ramy, H., Goueli, T., El-Shinnawy, H., Nasr, M.,... Shorab, I. (2015). Role of traditional healers in the pathway to care of patients with bipolar disorder in Egypt.  International Journal of Social Psychiatry,  61 (6), 583-590. http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu:2090/10.1177/0020764014565799  PsychInfo is a psychology specific database. My research is focusing on types of ethnomedicine the approach to the treatment of mood disorders which are psychological disorders from the biomedical perspecitve.  2. From Anthropological Literature Storck, M. (2000). Depressive illness and Navajo healing.  Medical Anthropology Quarterly ,  14 (4), 571-597.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/649721 Anthropological Literature is an anthropology specific database. Ethnomedicine is a sub-discipline of medical anthropology.  3. From Pubmed/Medline Ke...