News from the Libraries
Featured New Books/E-books for May 2016
May 18, 2016
For a list of the newest titles at the Briscoe Library click here. Purchase suggestions? Complete the online Purchase Suggestion Form or contact Andrea N. Schorr, Metadata & Collection Management Librarian.
History of Anatomy Class Visits P.I. Nixon Library
May 18, 2016
On April 12, 2016, the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library hosted this year’s History of Anatomy Class taught by Charleen Moore, PhD, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology. Faculty, students, and staff from the UT Health Science Center San Antonio Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, School of […]
Damon Tweedy, MD Speaks at UT Health Science Center
May 16, 2016
On April 19, 2016, a crowd of 500 enthusiastic attendees from the UT Health Science Center San Antonio and the greater San Antonio community gathered in the Holly Auditorium to hear Damon Tweedy, MD deliver the Frank Bryant Jr, MD Memorial Lecture in Medical Ethics. Dr Tweedy is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Duke […]
May 2016 Historical Book of the Month
May 3, 2016
This month’s highlighted historical book from the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library is De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum by Albrecht Dürer. This 1st Latin edition was translated from the original 1528 German edition and published in Nuremberg in 1532. Dürer was an influential artist, renowned print-maker, and respected contributor to the Northern […]
News From the Libraries – April 2016
April 19, 2016
The April issue of News from the Libraries is now available. For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below. Medicine in Poetry Highlights Of Army Nurse Corps Historical Book of the Month Featured New Books See all past issues of News From the Libraries
Medicine in Poetry: History of Medicine Society – April 26
April 19, 2016
In celebration of National Poetry Month and in collaboration with the publication of this year’s issue of Connective Tissue, the History of Medicine Society will host its annual Medicine in Poetry night on Tuesday, April 26 at 6:00 pm in the Howe Conference Room on the 5th floor of the Briscoe Library. Poets and fans […]
Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps
April 19, 2016
Lark A. Ford, PhD, RN will present Highlights in the History of the Army Nurse Corps on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 12 Noon in the Howe Conference Room on the 5th floor of the Library. Dr. Ford will discuss key memorials to nursing from 1902 through 2000, the first century of the U.S. Army Nurse […]
Featured New Books/E-books for April 2016
April 19, 2016
For a list of the newest titles at the Briscoe Library click here. Purchase suggestions? Complete the online Purchase Suggestion Form or contact Andrea N. Schorr, Metadata & Collection Management Librarian.
April 2016 Historical Book of the Month
April 4, 2016
In honor of Earth Day, this month’s chosen resource is Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany, a 3-volume set published between 1817 and 1820 and one of the first titles published in the United States containing colored plant illustrations. Sixty beautiful colored plates were produced using a special process invented by Bigelow himself. Each entry includes […]
Announcing: Community Discussions in Social Justice: Black Man in a White Coat
March 22, 2016
The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics and the Briscoe Library have chosen Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy, MD, JD as the basis for a Community Discussions in Social Justice Project. Dr. Tweedy will present the Frank Bryant Jr, MD Memorial Lecture in Medical […]