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Reference Sources

• The Chicago Manual of Style (2003)
  REF-1  655.2 C53 (kept near reference desk)
  
  
• Dictionary of Biomedical Sciences (2002)
  E&S Reference   610.3 G67D
  
  
• Encyclopedia Britannica (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  
  
• Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
  
  
• WebMD
  
  
• New York Times
  see ProQuest Direct database below
  
  
• Oxford Reference Online (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  The medical section of the ORO contains medical and related dictionaries plus an A-Z of Medicinal Drugs.
  
  
• Medical Ethics: Codes, Opinions, and Statements (2000)
  REF-1  174.2 M4893
  
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Databases

• Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  The database contains some articles on medical communications.
  
  
• InfoTrac Web (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  ProQuest Direct (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Both of these databases are business oriented so you may be able to find some information about medical communication from a business viewpoint. Most articles on this topic appear to be related to specific companies. The Business & Company Resource Center in InfoTrac and the ABI/Inform section in ProQuest are the most relevant portions of these databases. ProQuest also has a health module that you can search separately.
  
  
• Medline (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. It contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from over 3,900 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 foreign countries.
  

• Web of Science (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the literature of the sciences, social sciences and the arts & humanities. Users may choose to search across all the databases, or select just one. This unique database indexes and links cited references for each article. All formats provide complete bibliographic data and additional features, such as cited reference searching, links to related articles, plus author and publisher addresses.

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Internet Sites

• National Association of Medical Communicators

• Arts: Illustration: Specialized: Medical and Scientific (Open Directory Project)
  
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