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Medical humanities is an interdisciplinary field of humanities (literature, philosophy, ethics, history and religion), social science (anthropology, cultural studies, psychology, sociology), and the arts (literature, theater, film, and visual arts) and their application to medical education and practice. 

Medical humanities research is approached differently from the natural sciences, where data and hard evidence are required to draw conclusions. Because the human experience cannot be adequately captured by facts and figures alone, humanities research employs methods that are historical, interpretive, and analytical in nature.

Those engaged in humanities research pose questions about common assumptions, uncover new meanings in artistic works, or find new ways to understand cultural interactions. They are interested in raising questions and offering strong but tentative answers, not indisputable solutions.

The TMC Library Health Sciences Resource Center. (2015). Medical humanities. Retrieved from http://libguides.library.tmc.edu/humanities/home

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A Collection of Art by the University of Ottawa Medical Students

In our collection

Medical Humanities Perspectives Collection

The Health Sciences Library has create a new Medical Humanities Collection locate in the Foyer of their library

Books

Thinking digital

Articles in Art & Humanities

New resources

Multidisciplinary Databases

History of Medicine

Visual art & expression

Music

Literature & Writing

Philosophy & Ethics

Society

OER, Blogs and Useful websites

Medical cartoons

In our collection

Reliability and quality of information

Identify quality information

Finding trustworthy information

1)

Use our validated and evaluated resources such as our databases:  Medline,  CINAHLNursing and Allied Health Database , DynaMed, or our collections of e-books,

Consult our specialized research libguides, e.g. Medicine, Nursing, for databases and book collections. List of research libguides by specialties.

2)

Use the reputable resources available that cover different angles of health problems: 

3)

If you find information on the Internet or through any resource and are in doubt, use the guides provided in the "Evaluating Sources and Resources" or "Verifying the Facts" box below to validate the information, facts or statements!

 

Good research !!

Evaluating Sources and Resources in Health

Assessing health care resources

 

Online Health Information Aid - McGill University

  • Online Health Information Aid provides tips and resources on searching, evaluating, and using online health information. Please take a look on the section for COVID-19.
  • COVID-19 : On this page dedicated to COVID-19, you will find selected resources for navigating and understanding the information related to the pandemic.

 

COVID-19 Myths and misinformation - University of Toronto

 

Medline 

 

Fiabilité de l'information : Évaluer le contenu en ligne (in French)

  • Page de synthèse réalisée par les Bibliothèques des sciences de la santé, Université de Montréal: 1. Qualité et validité du contenu; 2.  Autorité de la source; 3. Mise à jour; 4. Facilité d'utilisation

 

Evaluating clinical guidelines: you can use one of these tools.

 

Evaluating the sources of Grey Literature, two tests are commonly used:

  • The CRAAP Test : Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose
  • The CARS checklist: Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, Support

Myth Busters

Myths ? Misinformation ??  Disinformation ?

 

World Health Organization

 

COVID-19 Pandemic Wikipedia page

 

COVID-19 Myths and misinformation - University of Toronto

 

Online Health Information Aid - McGill University

  • Online Health Information Aid provides tips and resources on searching, evaluating, and using online health information. Please take a look on the section for COVID-19.
  • COVID-19 : On this page dedicated to COVID-19, you will find selected resources for navigating and understanding the information related to the pandemic.

 

COVID19MisInfo.org Portal

Checking the facts

Here are some resources you can consult to better verify the quality of the information you have found :

Guides for further research

About this libguide...

This online guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This guide is attributed to Marie-Cécile Domecq

If you have questions, or if you run into problems that the guide does not address, please e-mail Marie-Cécile Domecq at mdomecq@uottawa.ca

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