Nursing 312: Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness

A guide for student research.

E-books

A selection of e-books in UMass Amherst collections. To search our major ebook package sites with science content, see options on far right.

Books @ Du Bois Library

A brief selection of new additions to the print book collections follows. Call number after the title is W.E.B. Du Bois Library location unless noted.

Food, medicine, and the quest for good health : nutrition, medicine, and culture by Nancy N. Chen; RM217 .C44 2009

Making sense of language : readings in culture and communication by Susan D. Blum. P107 .B595 2009

Culture and panic disorder edited by Devon E. Hinton and Byron J. Good. RC535 .C88 2009

Indigenous peoples’ food systems : the many dimensions of culture, diversity and environment for nutrition and health edited by Harriet V. Kuhnlein, Bill Erasmus, Dina Spigelski. Science Library TX361.N3 I53 2009

Biomedical ambiguity : race, asthma, and the contested meaning of genetic research in the Caribbean by Ian Whitmarsh. RA645.A83 W45 2008

Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present by Glen Scott Allen; Q127.U6 A6815 2009

The politics of inquiry : education research and the "culture of science" by Benjamin Baez and Deron Boyles. LB1028 .B267 2009

Food, medicine, and the quest for good health : nutrition, medicine, and culture by Nancy N. Chen. RM217 .C44 2009

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E-book Packages

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of several hundred current subject encyclopedias.
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Entries from over 100 Oxford University Press subject and language dictionaries, guides, and concise companions.
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Full text books, 2005-2010, and current journals from science publisher Springer, mainly in English.
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