Vendors/publishers have provided Hardin Library access to additional resources at no charge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Access end dates will be determined by the vendor supplying the resource and dates will vary. Access to these resources is restricted to University of Iowa affiliates, and you will be required to use your Iowa HawkID and passwordContinue reading “Additional Educational Online Resources | AcessEmergencyMedicine/Peds/ObGyn/Surgery/Physiotherapy | Case Files | Athletic Training”
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Mental Illness and Addiction Biographies | Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel
Author Elizabeth Wurtzel’s groundbreaking biography about depression Prozac Nation inspired many other confession-style biographies. Ms. Wurtzel died from metastasized cancer on January 7, 2020. Here is a selected list of biographies that discuss mental health or addiction held in the University of Iowa Libraries collections. Prozac nation: young and depressed in America / Elizabeth Wurtzel,Continue reading “Mental Illness and Addiction Biographies | Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel”
Robert Knox | Man, his structure and physiology | March 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ROBERT KNOX (1791-1862). Man, his structure and physiology : popularly explained and demonstrated. 2nd ed. London ; New York: H. Bailliere, 1858. This popular introduction to anatomy and physiology was written by the noted – if somewhat infamous – Edinburgh anatomist Robert Knox. Knox believed that a knowledge of human structure and physiology was vital, forming theContinue reading “Robert Knox | Man, his structure and physiology | March 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Guido Guidi | October 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
GUIDO GUIDI (1508-1569). Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa. Paris: Excudebat Petrus Galterius, 1544 Guidi, a successful Florentine surgeon, was invited to Paris in 1542 to help the French King Francis I apply medical advances of the Italian Renaissance to French medicine. Francis appointed Guidi his personal physician and chair of surgery at the Collège de France.Continue reading “Guido Guidi | October 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Banned Books Week 2018
The #4 book-The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini- on this list is a very popular book in Hardin’s collection.