News from the Libraries
Featured New Books/E-Books for September 2016
September 1, 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, Head of Resource Management.
August 2016 Historical Book of the Month
August 1, 2016
The August 2016 Historical Book of the Month highlights the oldest resource in the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library, De Medicina, published in Milan in 1481. Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a first-century Roman historian who compiled this set of treatises as a home health reference for wealthy Patrician families. It includes principles of good surgery, dental […]
July 2016 Historical Book of the Month
July 5, 2016
This month’s featured historical treasure is Osteographia, or The Anatomy of the Bones by William Cheselden. Published in London in 1753, this exquisite volume includes depictions of human and animal skeletons in interesting vignettes and in lifelike poses. His artists, Gerard van der Gucht and Jacob Schijnvoet, were the first to use the camera obscura […]
June 2016 Historical Book of the Month
June 2, 2016
The June 2016 Historical Book of the Month features the artistic masterpiece, Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery: Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism, and Lithotomy by Charles Bell published in London in 1821. Sir Charles Bell was a Scottish surgeon, neurologist, and anatomist and namesake of such structures and phenomena as Bell’s Nerve, Bell’s Palsy, […]
New Leisure Books – May 2016
May 19, 2016
Need a break? Check out the latest titles in the Leisure collection. The Leisure collection is located on the main floor of the Briscoe Library in the seating area across from the Circulation desk. This collection is funded through library donations. For a complete list of all titles in the Leisure collection click here.
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