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ART 483: Pathologies of Difference: Art, Medicine and Race: Suggested Resources

Guide created for Anna Arabindon-Kesson's course Fall 2024

Research guides: British history, Race, History of Science

Relevant subject terms

Use the Library Catalog to find books and other items (you will need to go elsewhere for articles: Articles+ or a subject-specific database from the DATABASES listings). Choose Subject (browse) at the top and enter one of the below terms. Most of these have one or more sub-headings which are often geographic or period-specific:

ART AND SCIENCE
ART GREAT BRITAIN (also PAINTING GREAT BRITAIN; SCULPTURE GREAT BRITAIN etc.)
BRITISH COLONIES
BRITISH COLONIZATION
COLONIES (Colonies history, Colonies in art, etc.)
COLONIZATION (Colonization history, Colonization in art, etc.)
DISEASES (Diseases in art, etc.)
GREAT BRITAIN HISTORY 19TH CENTURY
GREAT BRITAIN RACE RELATIONS
IMPERIALISM (e.g. Imperialism and Science; Imperialism and Great Britain;
Imperialism health aspects; Imperialism history 19th century; Imperialism in art;
Imperialism in popular culture, etc.)
MEDICINE HISTORY (see sources sub-heading for compilations of historical documents)
MEDICINE IN ART
RACE DISCRIMINATION
RACE IN ART
RACE RELATIONS

One can also choose VISUAL MATERIAL under Format as a start, and then add a keyword to search for individual prints available in the Graphic Arts collection in Special Collections in Firestone Library. There are some 68,000 individual items in this format.

Miscellaneous Resources

Relevant databases