Health Sciences

Online Catalogs

Search the online catalogs for: print and electronic books; streaming video and audio, DVD's and government documents. The Kent Library Catalog searches our collection. The MOBIUS Catalog searches other Missouri college and university library collections and allows you to request their physical materials be shipped to our campus. 

Streaming Video Databases

Recommended streaming video databases.

Ebook Databases

Recommended ebook databases.

Subject Headings

Every book in the library has been tagged with subject headings that describe broadly what it is about. When you find one book, you can use its subject heading(s) to find books on similar topics. Clicking on a hyperlinked subject heading in a catalog record will generate a result list of all titles owned by Kent Library that have been assigned that subject heading.

Call Numbers

Currently, most of Kent Library's books are organized on the shelf by the Dewey Decimal System. Kent Library is in the process of converting library materials to Library of Congress (LC) call numbers. Until this conversion is complete, collections in all subjects will be housed in both Dewey and LC, though most books related to Kinesiology, Nutrition and Recreation have been reclassified and are in LC.. Call numbers are assigned to represent a subject that describes what the book is about. As a result, books you find in the catalog may be shelved next to books on similar topics. You can often find more sources by looking around on the shelf by the book or books you found using the catalog.

Listed below are call numbers for Health Sciences in the LC classification scheme:

Library of Congress Call Numbers

• Subclass R
• R5-920 Medicine (General)
• R5-130.5 General works
• R131-687 History of medicine. Medical expeditions
• R690-697 Medicine as a profession. Physicians
• R702-703 Medicine and the humanities. Medicine and disease in relation to history, literature, etc.
• R711-713.97 Directories
• R722-722.32 Missionary medicine. Medical missionaries
• R723-726 Medical philosophy. Medical ethics
• R726.5-726.8 Medicine and disease in relation to psychology. Terminal care. Dying
• R727-727.5 Medical personnel and the public. Physician and the public
• R728-733 Practice of medicine. Medical practice economics
• R735-854 Medical education. Medical schools. Research
• R855-855.5 Medical technology
• R856-857 Biomedical engineering. Electronics. Instrumentation
• R858-859.7 Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
• R864 Medical records
• R895-920 Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicin

Dewey Decimal Call Numbers

• 519.5 Statistics for Health Sciences