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Overview
Biomedical Organizations: A Worldwide Guide to Position Documents puts the results of a survey of hundreds of global medical organizations and their position statements at your fingertips. This comprehensive reference not only analyzes and discusses the history and characteristics of the creation and development of the organizational position statement, but also lists medical organizations, their Web site addresses, and presents an alphabetical index of their position statements. Indexed according to subject as well as by organization, this one-of-a-kind source allows readers to determine what organizations have issued position documents on a specific subject such as alcoholism or HIV, as well as providing an appendix listing biomedical organizations without position documents.Synopsis
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Reviewer:Marilia Y. Antunez, MLS(Michigan State University)
Description:This is a specialized directory that lists the names of biomedical organizations, their websites, and the titles of the organizations' position papers and other associated documents.
Purpose:This reference can help a user to quickly determine whether a particular biomedical organization has a position paper on a particular topic or issue. This is done by searching for the organization's name, which is listed in alphabetical order, or by using the index. As the author suggests, the type of topics covered in an organization's position documents reflected the interests of the organization at the time that the information was compiled. Thus, the user can see what topics were emphasized, for example, in comparison to a revised position document on an organization's website.
Audience:This book is targeted at medical personnel including health information specialists and students.
Features:The directory lists the titles of the organization's position documents and covers thousands of biomedical organizations from societies to colleges, mainly from the United States and other English-speaking countries. The book can serve as a starting point, and it can complement the search process for these documents. Unlike these organizations' websites, the book can help a user to quickly determine whether a particular biomedical organization has a position paper on a particular topic or issue. This is useful since sometimes these documents are difficult to locate on the organization's website.
Assessment:There is a lack of reference materials dealing solely with position documents. This book assists users with determining if a certain organization has developed a position statement on a particular issue. It also provides information for clarifying what a position document is and how it differs from related documents. The need for this type of work may increase as more biomedical organizations become increasingly politicized, more are able to engage in controversial issues, and many have developed position papers or position statements that summarize the standpoint of their organizations. This title is recommended for a large medical or academic library.
Editorials
Library Journal
Environmental historian Stirling has attempted to provide a snapshot of medical history through the lens of organizational position papers. Each comprehensive A-Z entry contains the name of a biomedical organization (compiled from DIRLINE and MedNets.com), its web site, and a list of position paper topics found on that site; however, the texts of the position statements were omitted, and the entries are not annotated. Foreign organizations were included if a large portion of their sites was in English. Position paper topics vary widely, ranging across subjects like Medicare, tobacco, adolescent parents, bioterrorism, and aircrew fatigue. The index was not available for review but is scheduled to include topical and country entries as well as medical practice areas. While a check of 62 entries found that the organizations and their URLs were quite stable, access to the text of the position documents themselves was spotty at best-many documents were difficult to locate or not present at all; access to some required membership logins. Though exhaustive, this listing suffers from its narrow focus, the lack of annotations, and the transitory nature of web documents. A marginal purchase.-Tina Neville, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.From The Critics
Reviewer: Marilia Y. Antunez, MLS(Michigan State University)Description: This is a specialized directory that lists the names of biomedical organizations, their websites, and the titles of the organizations' position papers and other associated documents.
Purpose: "This reference can help a user to quickly determine whether a particular biomedical organization has a position paper on a particular topic or issue. This is done by searching for the organization's name, which is listed in alphabetical order, or by using the index. As the author suggests, the type of topics covered in an organization's position documents reflected the interests of the organization at the time that the information was compiled. Thus, the user can see what topics were emphasized, for example, in comparison to a revised position document on an organization's website. "
Audience: This book is targeted at medical personnel including health information specialists and students.
Features: The directory lists the titles of the organization's position documents and covers thousands of biomedical organizations from societies to colleges, mainly from the United States and other English-speaking countries. The book can serve as a starting point, and it can complement the search process for these documents. Unlike these organizations' websites, the book can help a user to quickly determine whether a particular biomedical organization has a position paper on a particular topic or issue. This is useful since sometimes these documents are difficult to locate on the organization's website.
Assessment: There is a lack of reference materials dealing solely with position documents. This book assists users with determining if a certain organization has developed a position statement on a particular issue. It also provides information for clarifying what a position document is and how it differs from related documents. The need for this type of work may increase as more biomedical organizations become increasingly politicized, more are able to engage in controversial issues, and many have developed position papers or position statements that summarize the standpoint of their organizations. This title is recommended for a large medical or academic library.