Selected Resources in Complementary
& Alternative Medicine
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Citation Index (CCI)
- Database of more than 90,000 bibliographic citations from 1966 to 1997, obtained from
the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. The citations were
obtained using MeSH controlled vocabulary terms from the "alternative medicine" tree
structure, and other selected MeSH terms. This database was created by the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) (formerly called
the Office of Alternative Medicine) which is part of the National
Institutes of Health.
- Center for
Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer--Reviews of Agents
- Extensive reviews of alternative and complementary cancer therapies assembled by University of Texas
Center for Alternative Medicine Research (UT-CAM). UT-CAM is one of eleven centers established by the National
Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) to evaluate alternative therapies and the only NCCAM center
that focuses solely on alternative and complementary cancer therapies.
- American Indian Ethnobotany Database
- Comprehensive database of the plants used by Native American peoples for foods, drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses (a total of over 44,000 items). This
represents uses by 291 Native American groups of 4,029 species from 243 different plant families.
- Glossary of
Terms for
Complementary and Alternative Medical Health Care Practices
- Definitions of complementary and alternative medicine terms assembled by staff of the Texas Medical Association Library.
- Current Bibliographies in Medicine: Acupuncture
- Each bibliography in the Current Bibliographies in Medicine series covers a distinct subject area of biomedicine of current popular interest.
This bibliography contains 2302 citations and covers the period January 1970 - October 1997.
- Current Bibliographies in Medicine: Integration of Behavioral
and Relaxation Approaches into the Treatment of Chronic Pain and Insomnia
- This bibliography contains 1147 citations and covers the period January 1985 - July 1995.
General Collections of Resources in
Complementary & Alternative Medicine
- Alternative Medicine Health Care
Information Resources
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- The Alternative Medicine
HomePage
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- Alternative Therapies & Complementary Medicine
- Selected by Craig Haynes at the Medical
Center Library, these sites include
Ask Dr. Weil, the University of
Washington Medicinal Herb Garden, the National
Center for Homeopathy, the National
Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine, and others.
Library Catalog Searches
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ROGER catalog and run a search for books, whole journals, and other items on that
subject. You can then use the "Limit" option on the ROGER screen to narrow down
the search by date, type of material, library location, etc. These subject headings
are presented here as good starting points. Once in ROGER, you may want to try other search
strategies to meet your particular needs.
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