HIS/PBH 314:Reproductive Health and Justice in Latin American History

Here are some strategies for search statement language for database searching:

• Use an * to search for multiple forms of a word in a single search:
  • mexic*   will search for: mexico, mexican, mexicans
  • pregnan*   will search for: pregnant, pregnancy, pregnancies
  • medicaliz*   will search for: medicalize, medicalized, medicalization
     

• Use "quotation marks" to have multiple words searched together as a phrase:
  • "sex education"
  • "dominican republic"
  • "reproductive health"

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• ​Use the word OR (in capital letters) to search for words with similar meaning -- always place within (  ):
  • (prostitution OR "sex work")
  • (contraception OR "birth control")

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• Use the word AND (in capital letters) to combine different topics/concepts:
  • "maternal mortality" AND policy AND argentin*
  • women AND health AND peru* AND (indigenous OR indian)