Subject and Course Guides: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Finding Books

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Books from other Illinois libraries may be found and requested via the CARLI I-Share Catalog.

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AccessMedicine
AccessMedicine features core textbooks for medical education, with additional news and resources. Includes captions.
Note: we don't have complete access to all the case files.
AccessPharmacy
Access Pharmacy contains core textbooks and reference works in pharmacy and pharmacology. Includes captions for videos and transcripts for animations.
AccessSurgery
Comprehensive online surgery resource aimed at medical students. Includes access to leading surgical textbooks, such as Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery and Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations.
Credo Reference
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Ebook Central
Ebooks from a wide range of publishers covering many subjects, including business, economics, technology and engineering, humanities, life and physical science, and social and behavioral sciences.
NCBI Bookshelf
Free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
R2 Digital Library
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The Rittenhouse Publishing R2 Library provides online and fully searchable health sciences reference works. The Library licenses two simultaneous users per book. After 15 minutes, your search session will expire, so you might want to create a login and save any results you need. You may print up to 10 sections or chapters per session. Do not attempt to download the entire contents of these books.
SAGE Reference E-Books
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This is a portal to over 60 topical and subject encyclopedias online.
ScienceDirect
A web database for research that contains abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of articles in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.

Wiley InterScience Online Books
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Finding CAM Books in the Library

To find books by title, author, or subject, search our Library Catalog.

Most books at the Library of the Health Sciences are shelved by the National Library of Medicine Classification system. Most books written specifically about complementary and alternative medicine are usually classified "WB". Here is a select list of where you can find books related to complementary and alternative medicine:

QU 145.5 Dietary Supplements.
QU 160-220 Vitamins.
QV 766-770 Medicinal Plants.
WB 369 Acupuncture.
WB 400-449 Diet and Nutrition.
WB 535 Musculoskeletal Manipulations.
WB 537 Massage.
WB 550 Therapeutic Use of Music.
WB 880-962 Complementary and Alternative Therapies.
WM 450 Art Therapies.

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Finding Books

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