Travel and Wilderness Medicine

"The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness."
Havelock Ellis [1859-1939] The Dance of Life, Chap. 5

"Among the therapeutic agents not to be found bottled up and labelled on our shelves, is Travelling; a means of prevention, of cure, and of restoration, which has been famous in all ages."
Daniel Drake [1785-1852] Western Medical and Physical Journal I:305, 1827

Books

Books useful to the study of Travel and Wilderness Medicine include:

HSL Ref WA 110 .I57 1989 International Travel and Health Vaccination Requirements and Health Advice
HSL Res WC 680 .T779 1987 The Travel and Tropical Medicine Manual
HSL Res WD 501 .L237a 1985 AMA Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants
WC 680 .T857 1991 Hunter's Tropical Medicine, 7th ed.
WC 680 .W289t 1990 Tropical and Geographical Medicine, 2nd ed.

If you don't find what you need, visit (or call or email) your librarian.

Journals

Journals in the Health Sciences Library are indexed in MEDLINE, and are shelved alphabetically by journal title. Relevant journals include the Journal of Wilderness Medicine. Military medicine journals also frequently include articles on medicine in difficult environmental conditions such as deserts, arctic tundra, jungles, and high altitude areas.

Databases

MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of journal citations in over 3500 journals, collected since 1965, and remains the most likely source of travel or wilderness medicine journal citations, but the National Library of Medicine and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released a new database in 1995 called SPACELINE, about life sciences and medical research performed as part of the space program.

MEDLINE Search Hint

Journal articles are indexed with the most specific terms appropriate to the subject matter of the article, using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) selected by National Library of Medicine indexers. The index term "travel" is used for the medical, social, and psychological aspects of travel and tourism, for articles on the hazards of travel, or for articles on the spread of disease by travel. Other potentially useful terms are "desert climate," altitude sickness," "insect bites and stings," "snake venoms," "frostbite," etc.

For more MEDLINE information, read the Medline Search Guide or consult your librarian.

Images

Remember that slides, CD-ROM images, and other visual travel and wilderness medicine information are available in the Medical Education Media Center. See also the University of Missouri-Kansas City Image Bank.

Internet Resources - World Wide Web

For other Internet medical resources, see

Hancock List, a comprehensive list of health sciences resources on the Internet.
Medical Matrix list of medical resources on the Internet.

CML's Information Resources Home Page UMKC School of Medicine Home Page UMKC Health Sciences Library Home Page

http://research.med.umkc.edu/teams/cml/Travelmed.html updated 2/97 by pfannenstiel@cctr.umkc.edu