When searching databases for journal articles, consider the following when entering your search terms:
1. Are there multiple terms that could be used for your topic? For example:
illness or disease
popular or fold medicine
gender or women
2. Are there ways to "truncate" a term to pick up alternative spellings or singular/plural? For example:
medic* for medicine or medical
disease* for disease, diseases, or diseased
heal* for healing, healer, or healers
3. Examples of search statements:
(traditional or alternative) and medicine
culture* and (illness or disease*)
(women or gender) and (heal*)
