This guide will help you find resources and information for your disease project for HUM BIOL 217.
If you need help with library search tools and resources, just click on the Research Help tab. For other questions about your assignment, contact your professor.
These reference books contain short entries about specific topics, and they can be a really useful starting point for your research. You can browse through them to get topic ideas for your project. Once you have a topic, read through the corresponding encyclopedia entry for background information and to view a list of related resources.
Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 9th ed.
The Gale Encyclopedia of Emerging DiseasesIn addition to the resources listed above, these library databases may be useful for your research. They contain scientific (scholarly) articles and book chapters related to health and medicine. Start by searching for the name of the disease you're studying.
for an article in a database, click on it to connect to the full text. If the article is not available, request it through interlibrary loan with the "Request a PDF (1-3 days)" link.
