Anatomy and Physiology

Reference books and CD-ROMs

Use these for background information. These are just examples; there are other books in each category. Check the library catalog for other titles and for campus locations.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

R 574.03 C66 1996 - Concise Encyclopedia Biology
R 574.03 H46 1995 - Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms
R 574 M35 1991 - Magill's Survey of Science: Life Science Series ( overviews of major concepts in the life sciences. 6 vol. )
R 610.3 D69 1993 - Melloni's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
R 612.003 O93 2001 - The Oxford Companion to the Body
Online - Oxford Companion to the Body

Anatomy Atlases

R 611 A27 2003 - McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy
R 611 G73 - Gray's Anatomy
R 611.0222 R65 1993 - Color Atlas of Anatomy: a Photographic Study of the Human Body
R 612 H86 1995 - The Human Body: an illustrated guide to its structure, function, and disorders
R 617.52200222 L36 1998 - Color atlas of common oral diseases

Diseases and Conditions

R 616 D57 2001 - Diseases
R 616 F67 1997 - Color Atlas and Text of Clinical Medicine
R 616 C43 2004 - Cecil Textbook of Medicine
R 616 H37 2001 - Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
R 616 T49 1997 - Textbook of Internal Medicine
R 615.02 M47 1999 - Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (also online at http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/)
R 616.024 M47 1997 - Merck Manual of Medical Information: Home Edition (online edition has good anatomical drawings)

CD-ROMs (on CD-ROM changer computer at Sylvania)

ADAM Interactive Physiology (Cardiovascular, Muscular, and Respiratory systems)
Interactive Skeleton
Visible Man
Visible Woman

Articles

Magazine Articles Online
Several magazine article databases are available through EBSCOhost. In each case some of the articles will be available in full text (the whole article). Others will have a summary only, with details about where to find the complete article. You can choose one database or search several at once. You might try:

MasterFILE Premier
Academic Search
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; Health Source: Consumer Edition

Biology Journals (ProQuest)
Full text articles from 189 biology journals. 136 of them are peer- reviewed.

BIOSIS
Available to PCC users through PORTALS. Contains citations and abstracts to the world's biological and biomedical research literature. Indexes 7000 periodicals as well as books and conference proceedings. Coverage is 1990-2004.

MEDLINE
Covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.

PubMed
Search Medline via this free service.

Science Direct Health & Life Sciences Collection
Full text for over 890 peer reviewed journals. For best results click on SEARCH to get started. Limit your search to SUBSCRIBED Journals, last 5 years ONLY.

Look in the library catalog or A to Z list of magazines and journal titles to see if PCC has the journal you need.

For journals not owned by PCC, consult WorldCat to see if they are available at another local library. You can then go to that library and photocopy the article. If the item you need is not available in the Portland area you might be able to get it through Interlibrary loan.

Websites

Scirus - search the web for scientific information only

AllRefer Health - Pictures and images - 2500 medical illustrations, pictures, animations, and diagrams
Atlas of the Body - from the American Medical Association
MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia (good for illustrations)
World Health Organization - Health Topics
National Institutes of Health - Health Information
Centers for Disease Control - Health Topics A to Z
Martindale's Anatomy and Histology Center
Medweb (Emory University)
Yahoo: Anatomy
Yahoo: Diseases and Conditions