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DB / Metadata Management Program (MMP): Using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®) in Cataloging


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


Last Reviewed: July 19, 2017