History of Medical Law
Prof. Veilleux
Fall 2006
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Reference Works
Legal Reference Sources | Medical Reference Sources
- Legal Reference Sources
- Legal Abbreviations & Citations
- Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations. Mary Miles Prince. 5th ed. Buffalo, NY: W.S. Hein, 2001.
Reference R 349.73 P956b
- The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. 17th ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law Review Assoc., 2000.
Reference R 340.07 B658
- Legal Dictionaries & Companions
- Black's Law Dictionary. Ed. Bryan A. Garner. 7th ed. St. Paul, MN: West, 1999.
Reference R 340 B62L7
- Dictionary of Selected Legal Terms. Margaret C. Jasper. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 1996.
Reference R 340 J39d
- A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage. Bryan Garner. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
Reference R 340.03 G234d 1995
- The Oxford Companion to American Law. Ed. Kermit L. Hall. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002.
Reference R 349.73 O981
- The Oxford Companion to Law. David Walker. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1980.
Reference R 340.3 W178o
- The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. Ed. Kermit Hall. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
Reference R 347.73 O98 2005
- Legal Encyclopedias
- American Jurisprudence 2d
Covers state and federal law; . Included in Westlaw Campus Research.
To search this encyclopedia, click on the "Law" tab in Westlaw, enter keywords, and, in step 2 on the main search page, select "American Jurisprudence 2d."
To browse this encyclopedia, click on the "Law" tab, then, in step 2, click on the "i" icon next to American Jurisprudence 2d. Near the top of the page, by the word "Scope," click on "AmerJur." Finally, click on the "Table of Contents" link near the upper right-hand corner of the next page.
- Corpus Juris Secundum: A Complete Restatement of the Entire American Law as Developed by all Reported Cases. c. 101 vols. St. Paul, MN: West, 1936- .
Reference R 345 C822
Library has current edition. CJS covers state and federal law. To use this set, start with the General Index volumes, which are shelved at the end of the main sequence of volumes.
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Ed. Jeffrey Lehman and Shirelle Phelps. 2nd ed. 13 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2004.
Covers topics on a wide range of legal issues; written for a general audience.
- Medical Reference Sources
- Medical Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Guides
- The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Reference R 610.3 A512
- Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 30th ed. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2003.
Reference R 610.3 D711
- The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. Ed. Jacqueline Longe. 2nd ed. 5 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2002.
Reference R 616.03 G151 2002
- The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health. Ed. Kristine Krapp. 5 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2002.
- Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Medicine and Surgery. 38th ed. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1995.
Reference R 611 G77, 1995
- Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary. Douglas Anderson et al. 6th ed. St. Louis, MI: Mosby, 2002.
Reference R 610.3 M894 2002
- The Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine. Ed. Stephen Lock et al. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
Reference R 610.3 O98 2001
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary. 22nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins, [1972].
Reference R 610.3 S81m22
- Medical History
- Bibliography of the History of Medicine of the United States and Canada, 1939-1960. W.B. McDaniel. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, [1964].
Reference R 016.61 M64b
- The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Ed. Kenneth Kiple. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.
Reference R 610.9 C178
- Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine. Ed. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 1993.
Reference R 610.9 C737
- Dictionary of American Medical Biography. Ed. Martin Kaufman et al. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.
Reference R 610.92 D554
- A Dictionary of the History of Medicine. Anton Sebastian. New York: Parthenon, 1999.
Reference R 910.9 S443d
- Encyclopedia of Medical History. Roderick McGrew. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Reference R 610.9 M147e
- Medical Obituaries: American Physicians' Biographical Notices in Selected Medical Journals before 1907. Lisabeth Holloway. New York: Garland, 1981.
Reference R 926.1 H745m
- The Oxford Medical Companion. Ed. John Walton et al. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
Reference R 610.3 O98, 1994
Finding Cases
If you are looking for cases on a particular topic, first consult the legal encyclopedias, medical history reference sources, and secondary sources to find citations to cases; you can then retrieve the cases in Westlaw Campus Research or LexisNexis. You can also search the following to identify cases:
- Great American Court Cases. Ed. Mark Mikula and L. Mpho Mabunda. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1999.
Reference R 349.73 G786
- Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia. Ed. John Johnson. 2nd ed. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Reference R 349.73 H673 2001
- LexisNexis Academic
(c. 1754 to present) Includes the full text of United States Reports (Supreme Court opinions), decisions from U.S. Courts of Appeals and District Courts (1789 to present), and state courts.
To find court cases:
In the upper left-hand corner of the main search screen, choose the "Legal Research" search form, and then choose "Federal Case Law" or "State Case Law."
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- Shepard's Acts and Cases by Popular Names, Federal and State. Colorado Springs, CO: Shepard's/McGraw-Hill, 1999- .
Reference R 345.5 S547
- Westlaw Campus Research
Includes the full text of federal and state court cases as well as American Law Reports, which summarizes cases on specific topics.
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Secondary Sources
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
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- America: History and Life & Historical Abstracts
(Time period covered: 1450 to present [world history]; prehistory to present [U.S. and Canadian history]. Publication coverage: 1954 to present). Indexes journal articles, book chapters, doctoral dissertations, and book reviews. (Each database can also be searched separately.)
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- Index to Legal Periodicals
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 1,000 legal periodicals, including law reviews, as well as yearbooks, bar association publications, court decisions, government documents, books, and book reviews. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1994 to the present. International in scope.
Note: to find articles published from 1952-1981, consult Index to Legal Periodicals, shelved in the Reference Index area at call number R 050 I38.
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- Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law
Library has: vols. 1-20 (1958-1978)
Reference R 016.34 I38
Indexes law-related articles in approximately 300 non-legal journals; these journals are not covered by the Index to Legal Periodicals.
- LexisNexis Academic
(Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from law reviews as well as local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals. Also includes transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
To find articles from legal newspapers and law reviews:
In the upper left-hand corner of the main search screen, choose the "Legal Research" search form," then under "Secondary Literature," select either "Legal news" or "Law reviews."
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- Medline (PubMed)
(1966 to present) Includes citations and abstracts to the worldwide biomedical literature; also includes some full text articles. Covers over 4,600 journals.
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- PAIS International
(1915 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics.
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- Social Sciences Abstracts
(1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
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- Westlaw Campus Research
Contains full text articles from over 800 law reviews and journals as well as news sources, important primary law and analytical sources, including state statutes, federal statutes published in the U.S. Code Annotated, federal and state cases, including Supreme Court cases, federal regulations published in the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, European Union law, American Law Reports, and American Jurisprudence, 2nd, an important encyclopedia covering state and federal law.
Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research.
To find articles from legal journals and law reviews:
Click on the "Law" tab in the upper left-hand corner of the screen and then, for step 2, select "Journals and law reviews."
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