Cataloging: Using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) in Cataloging
Module 4—Use of Topical Qualifiers (Subheadings)
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Introduction
Module 1
Subject Analysis Principles
Module 2
Introduction to Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and the MeSH Browser
Module 3
Selecting the Main Concept
Module 4
Use of Topical Subheadings in MeSH
Module 5
Geographic Headings
Module 6
Publication Types
Module 7
Names as Subjects
Module 8
Deconstructed Headings vs. Subject Strings
Special Instructions
- $x history
- Use only for works discussing the historical aspects of a subject. Do not use for materials on a topic written as contemporaneous works or for reprints of these works, simply because they are old
Examples
- A work describing the history of military nursing during the American Civil War, written in 2003
- 650 _2 $a Military Nursing $x history
- 650 _2 $a American Civil War
- A work on nursing care in the Confederate Army published in 1866 and reprinted in 1998
- 650 _2 $a Military Nursing
- 650 _2 $a American Civil War
