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House Red, Hot Bellies, and High Velocity Lead Therapy: The Rhetoric of Trauma

PWR 2AT - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Todhunter, A.
Last Updated: 15-Apr-2013

A guide to resources for PWR 2AT: House Red, Hot Bellies, and High Velocity Lead Therapy: The Rhetoric of Trauma, a course in Rhetoric of trauma medicine and critical care in medicine, technology, ethics, economics, history and popular culture.

 

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Subjects

General and interdisciplinary

Around Stanford

StEMS - Stanford University Emergency Medical Services
Bibliographic Management

Reference/Background Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Encyclopedia of forensic sciences / editor-in-chief, Jay A. Siegel ; editors, Pekka J. Saukko, Geoffrey C. Knupfer.
San Diego : Academic Press, c2000.
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » HV8073 .E53 2000 V.1
The encyclopedia of trauma and traumatic stress disorders / Ronald M. Doctor and Frank N. Shiromoto.
New York, NY : Facts on File, c2010.
Green Library » Stacks » BF175.5 .P75 D63 2010
Trauma [electronic resource] : A Comprehensive Emergency Medicine Approach / Edited by Eric Legome, Lee W. Shockley.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)

Selected Searchworks Subject Terms

Here are some "controlled vocabulary" terms for trauma-related topics. Use the Limiters on the left column of the results list : Topics, Call Numbers (for Subject Area), Location (which library - another clue for subject/perspective), Publication Date, etc.

"Emergency medical personnel"
"Hospitals Emergency services"
"Emergency medicine"
"Emergency Medical Services"
"Black humor"

Selected Searchable Ejournals

You will find articles from these journals using databases (most will be found in PubMed/Medline), but you can also search these journals individually for articles from a very specific perspective.

full text access from 1983-current.

Selected Databases

Try these suggested databases  and these additional:

Academic search premier [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
A multidisciplinary database which provides full-text for over 4,650 scholarly publications. A great place to start your research. See this result from searching the keywords Emergency Medical Humor. "Whatever Gets you through Today: An examination of cynical humor among emergency service professionals"
Scopus [electronic resource].
[New York] : Elsevier, 2004-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
SciVerse Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and also in the arts and humanities.