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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2006
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ737621 |
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- Toward Improved Collections in Medical Humanities: Fiction in Academic Health Sciences Libraries Dali, Keren Dilevko, Juris Medical Libraries Academic Libraries Medicine Humanities Fiction Library Services Access to Information Library Materials Classification Indexing Although fiction plays a prominent role in the interdisciplinary field of medical humanities (MH), it is physically and intellectually isolated from non-fiction in academic health sciences libraries. Using the Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database (LAMD) as a tool for selection and subject analysis, we suggest a method of integrating fiction with non-fiction through the application of non-literary classification numbers and subject headings to improve physical and bibliographic access to medical humanities collections.