A draft version of a consolidated thesaurus for the rapidly - growing field of alternative medicine

Yitzhaki, Moshe Shahar, Tzipi

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6664)

Abstract:

The field of alternative medicine has undergone a significant transformation in recent decades, emerging into a large and widely-recognized field, and undergoing a process of growing consolidation with the conventional scientific-medical establishment. Consequently, a growing number of articles, dealing with various aspects of alternative medicine, have appeared in scientific and professional journals. An on-line search limited to the 1975-1994 period, that was conducted on eighteen databases specializing in medical and scientific fields, and used by the medical profession, retrieved close to 4000 articles, most of which appeared quite recently, between 1985 and 1994. A draft of a consolidated thesaurus was constructed, based on keywords found in titles and in descriptors of the aforementioned articles. The principles and rules of the thesaurus' construction are described, and illustrative samples of descriptors and lead-in references are displayed

Creation: 2000
Keywords: Medicina ; Tesauros ; Diseño

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