History of Medicine: Finding Scholarly Articles

The resources on this page primarily cover Early Modern to Modern eras.

• For resources covering the Middle Ages, see the Medieval Studies guide.

History databases:

Multidisciplinary databases:

Not sure how to find the full tex of an article if you have a citation? Let's pretend you are looking for the article with the following citation:

Marsella, Jamie. "'Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City': Eugenic Maternalism, the Babies Welfare Association, and the Urban Better Baby Contest." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 98, no. 3 (2024): 370-93. https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2024.a944545.

→ The name of the article is: "'Better Babies, Better Mothers, Better City': Eugenic Maternalism, the Babies Welfare Association, and the Urban Better Baby Contest."

→ The name of the journal where the article was published is Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

→ The article was published in 2024 in volume 98, issue number 3, on pages 370-393 of Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

How to Find the Full Text

→ Go to the library homepage and click on the E-Journals tab above the search box.

• If an article has a DOI, you can enter the DOI number (usually starts with 10) into the Search by DOI or PubMed ID (PMID) Number box.

→ If there is no DOI, search for the journal by name or ISSN (if you know it) in the Journal search box. If Fordham subscribes to the journal, you should see a record that shows which databases offer access to a journal for specific pockets of time:

→ Since the article needed is from 2024, try a maroon database link that would include 2024.

→ Once a database is selected, use the citation information highlighted in yellow above to navigate to the article (ie published in 2024, volume 98, issue 3, pages 370-393).