General Tips on Searching in CLIO for Books and Book Chapters
- -"History of Health and Medicine in Africa" -- Suggested Keyword Searches in CLIO:
- Combine "history" -or- Africa -or- [name of country] ...with:
health -or- "health and hygiene" | medicine -or- medical | "medicinal plants"
“mental health" | AIDS -or- malaria -or- tuberculosis -or- Ebola | diseases
aging | epidemics | “women and children” | “women in development”
girls -or- boys | sexuality | teenagers -or- "teenage pregnancy"
missions (missionaries) | "social conditions" | population
disabilities | food -or- nutrition | ecology -or- environment
- Historical sources—published
- Use “Subject” keywords like:
“description and travel” | “personal narratives”
sources | "case studies" | biography
- Colonial government publications
Search [name of the colonial territory], Great Britain Colonial Office, France, etc. as “Author” or “All Fields”
- Reference works or statistical publications -- in print or electronic
- Combine name of country or language or ethnic group as “Subject” -AND- another term as a “Subject”….such as:
bibliography | handbooks | statistics | atlas -or- maps
biography | congresses (conferences) | dictionaries | grammar
- Literary works
- Search by author or title …or combine [name of language] as “Subject” with:
literature | drama | fiction | poetry | criticism
- Exceptions….African literature (English) ; African literature (French)
Primary Sources?
- Autobiographies & memoirs
- Letters or correspondence
- Diaries
- Historical newspapers
- Documentary films & photographs
- Speeches (audio-visual or printed)
- Oral histories & interviews (audio-visual or printed transcripts)
- Unpublished government records & published government reports
- Ethnographic surveys & case studies
- Travellers’ accounts & descriptions
- International organization & national NGO reports based on field investigations
- RECOMMENDATION: Routinely search & read articles in the back issues of two journals: