Guides: WGST 2239: Race, Medicine, and Gender (Danylevich): Web Resources

Medical Industrial Complex

Stories of Care and Control
A timeline of the medical industrial complex (MIC). This is a tool designed to understand the histories of medical experimentation, scientific racism, racial capitalism, and ableism as some of the many forces shaping the conditions and evolution of healthcare within the United States.

Social Media Search Tools

Platform-Specific Searching

Google Advanced Search
X Advanced Search
Formerly known as Twitter. Requires an account.
TikTok
Basic searching possible without an account. Some features require an account
Instagram
Requires account
Facebook
Requires account.
Pinterest / Explore

Search Engines

Many social media platforms have internal search engines that all users to search for users, hashtag, keywords, and the like. In addition, there are some social media search tools that should help you identify relevant content.

Social Searcher
A free social media search engine that searches across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, Flickr, etc. Search by mentions, users, or trends.
UVRX Social Search
A collection of Google custom searches put together for platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.

5 Tips for Searching Google Effectively

Google's Advanced Search screen provides a number of ways to limit and refine your search. You can use the basic Google search to help you mine the contents of some social media feeds using the following tips:

Use quotation marks to get exact wording: "health inequities"
Use a minus sign or hyphen to omit words from your search: vaccines -influenza
Use OR to add options: healthcare OR medical care
Use site: to limit to specific domains: health inequities site: twitter.com
Use site: plus a country code to search by geographic area: refugee site: FR

Cited Reference Searching

Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature across the disciplines.

Finding DOIs

Crossref
Crossref makes research outputs easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse. Can use to identify DOI (digital object identifiers).

Wayback Machine

Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a tool to help you search for websites as they used to look. It is good for finding websites that are now defunct or comparing changes over time.