Pathophysiology: A Guide to Information Resources
Finding Books
Alvernia Library
Selected books in the Alvernia Library collection:
Geriatric dosage handbook: Including clinical recommendations and monitoring guidelines 615.1 S472 2008
Goodman & Gilman's manual of phrmacology and therapeutics 615.1 B911 2008
Mosby's 2008 nursing drug reference 615.1 M894 2007
Physicians' desk reference R615.105 P578 2010
WorldCat 170 million records
This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection.
Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.
Online Books
A collection of over 15,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that are great for reference and research. Access is limited to one user at a time. If an ebook of interest is being viewed by another user, you can request to be notified when the ebook becomes available. Books are automatically returned for access when there is no activity for a period of 15 minutes in a browser where the book is being viewed.
Examples of books in the NetLibrary collection include:
- Basic & clinical pharmacology (2009)
- Big picture: Medical physiology (2009)
- Davis's drug guide for nurses (2009)
- Evidence-based guide to antipsychotic medications (2010)
- Nurse's pocket drug guide (2010)
- Pocket psych drugs: Point-of-care clinical guide (2010)
- Schaum's outline of human anatomy and physiology (2010)
Gray's Anatomy
The classic illustrated text of human anatomy
(20th edition, 1918) is searchable by
keyword, table of contents, or subject index containing 13,000 entries.
From Bartleby.com. (LII)
Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses
AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
Rockville, MD.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced
by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental
Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide
to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.
Merck Manuals
The Merck Manual of Medical Information--Second Home Edition
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Seventeenth Edition
The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, Third Edition
The Merck Manual of Health and Aging
Websites
BUBL: Diseases
Selected web sites on diseases.
CDC Diseases and Conditions
Links to web pages by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics
An online collection with information on the history of medicine and a historical context for current
epidemiology. Created by the Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program.
Diseases
A.D.A.M.
definitions, alternative names, causes, symptoms. treatment, outlook and more.
Diseases, Disorders and Related Topics
Links to web sites with information about diseases and disorders hosted by the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
Factline: Tracking Health in Underdeserved Communities
A website sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and Meharry Medical College that highlights health disparities in
underserved communities.
Hardin MD
Diseases and disorders links to images and information by the University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.
An Introduction to Human
Disease
Selected web links from An Introduction to Human Disease
(7th ed.).
Interactive Images of
Disease
Images hosted by the Museum of Human Disease at the University of
New South Wales.
The Internet Pathology
Laboratory for Medical Education
A web resource of image, tutorials,
laboratory exercises, and examination items on human disease conditions. The
University of Utah School Eccles Health Science Library.
Office of Rare Diseases Research
The National Institutes of Health source for information on rare diseases.
Physiotherapy
Evidence Database (PEDro)
Database
of evidence relevant to physiotherapy maintained by the Centre for
Evidence-Based Physiotherapy.
Symptoms
Click on a region of the body to begin to identify diseases/disorders using the A.D.A.M Symptom Navigator.
The
Urbana Atlas of Pathology
A database of images by the University of
Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign.
Virtual Pathology Museum
A searchable
database of macroscopic images hosted by the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Searchable by
disease or organ.