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Feb 01 2019

Artificial Hearts | Shelley McKellar | 2019 R. Palmer Howard History of Medicine Society Dinner | Friday, April 5, 2019

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Medical historian Shelley McKellar will speak on Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and its Sensational Patient Cases at the 2019 R. Palmer Howard Dinner.

Shelley McKellar
Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Western University Canada

Location: Radisson Hotel, Coralville, Iowa
Date: Friday, April 5, 2019
Reception 6pm with cash bar, Dinner at 7pm, Presentation at 8pm

Registration and prepayment (check or credit card) required by March 29, 2019. Printable registration form

Today, artificial hearts are a clinical reality after decades of contentious development. Former US Vice President Dick Cheney stated that the technology “saved his life” in 2010, but not all patients enjoyed such successful outcomes. Dr. McKellar examines the clinical use of artificial hearts since the 1960’s, situating the triumphant narrative of this technology and it’s “resurrectionist capacity” along side technical device challenges and difficult patient experiences. The appeal was the promissory nature of artificial hearts as a life-sustaining treatment, but it was (and is) and imperfect and controversial technology.

Shelley McKellar, PhD bio

Feb 01 2019

Google Scholar | Change Some Settings for Off-Campus Access

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Using Google Scholar off campus requires changing some settings in order to view full-text articles.

Access Google Scholar from Hardin’s A-Z database list or directly at http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/GoogleSch.

Then change settings as below:

Go to Settings

Click on Library Links

Make sure The University of Iowa – ViewIt@UILink has a check mark next to it and SAVE that setting

Then look for the ViewIt@UILink link in the results to get to University of Iowa subscribed content.

Explore the “Cite” and “Cited by” features

Jan 25 2019

William Osler: His Life and Human | History of Medicine Lecture by Robert Rakel, MD | Thursday, February 28, 5:30pm

Posted on January 25, 2019February 8, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

image of Dr. Robert Rakel, white man, glasses, suit and tie — Robert Rakel, MD
Professor Emeritus, Family & Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

On the 100th anniversary year of William Osler’s death, the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear Robert Rakel, MD speak.

William Osler: His Life and Sense of Humor
Thursday, February 28, 2019
5:30-6:30PM
2117 Medical Education and Research Facility

Osler was the most famous physician in the world at the time of his death. This presentation will review his major accomplishments and his sense of humor–appropriate for his day, but would not be considered funny today.

Osler Pamphlet Collection at the John Martin Rare Book Room

The Principles and Practice of Medicine by Osler (standard text for 40 years)

More information / donate to the History of Medicine Society

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program please call Janna Lawrence at 319-335-9871.

image of white man with beard and mustache in robe

Jan 03 2019

Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina | January 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on January 3, 2019January 31, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

AULUS CORNELIUS CELSUS (25 B.C.-50 A.D.). De medicina. Venice: Philippus Pincius, for Benedictus Fontana, 1497.

Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia. The De Medicina is the oldest medical document after the Hippocratic writings. It was written about 30 A.D. De Medicina was one of the first medical books printed after printing was invented.

Celsus has left the best account of Roman medicine; he was the first important medical historian. The manuscript of the De Medicina was lost during the Middle Ages and rediscovered in Milan in 1443. Celsus was probably not a professional physician–his work seems to be a compilation of the work of others–echoing the Greeks and especially Hippocrates. Nevertheless, it is an extremely able and interesting history of medicine and surgery, including descriptions of symptoms and treatment of disease as well as descriptions of plastic surgery, goiter operations, tonsillectomies, treatment of fractures, and dental procedures.

This Celsus volume is one of few volumes in the John Martin collection which has been completely digitized. View the book online: http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/jmrbr/id/6326/rec/1.

The John Martin Rare Book Room copy is in Latin and bound in Eighteenth-century half calf and floral boards.

Jan 03 2019

No More Recalls ! | Get Checked-Out Books Faster, Keep Materials Longer

Posted on January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Do you need to use a book checked out to someone else? The UI Libraries’ new default option for getting a copy of a book that is in use is to request it through interlibrary loan, rather than recall it from the person who has it checked out.

The Libraries’ interlibrary loan* service will get a copy of the needed material from another library, at no charge to you. On average, it takes 6.5 days to get a book through interlibrary loan. In contrast, when a book is recalled from another user, that user is given at least a week to return it, and sometimes longer, depending on when they had checked the book out. This change also means that materials you have checked out are less likely to be recalled from you.

If you have never requested a book or journal article through interlibrary loan, you will need to fill out a registration form the first time. There is no limit on the number of interlibrary loan requests UI faculty, staff, students, or residents can make, and requests can be for any use, including entertainment.

Books may still be recalled by UI Libraries staff when they are needed for course reserves.

If you have questions about interlibrary loan or any other UI Libraries service or policy, contact Hardin staff at 319-335-9151.

*What are Interlibrary Loans?
Interlibrary loans are materials borrowed from another library for use by a user or loaned to another library for their patron’s use.
The lending library does not know which user has requested the materials.

Dec 17 2018

2020 Journal and Database Cancellation Review Information

Posted on December 17, 2018December 18, 2018 by Sarah Andrews

The University of Iowa Libraries work to offset increases in the costs of information resources each year along with a flat budget (0 percent increase in funding). Our strategy is to minimize the impact of inflation by continuously monitoring the use of the collection to identify and eliminate journals, databases, and ebooks that:

are low-use
carry a high cost-per-use
duplicate content available from other sources

In the past, these processes–along with reducing spending on printed books–have enabled The Libraries to counter rising costs. However, in 2020, subscription costs will increase 5 to 7 percent, and we are finding it difficult to identify further spending reductions. The UI Libraries must identify $600,000 in subscriptions to cancel. Health sciences areas will cut $175,000 and other areas will cut the remaining $425,000. Subscriptions managed by the Law Library are not included in this process.

We need your feedback in order to make the best possible decisions.

Faculty and staff should complete the feedback form by Friday, March 1, 2019 to make a case to keep journal titles or database subscriptions.

Updates and more information about the process is available online.

Dec 17 2018

Data Science Institute | Learn Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Tidyverse/R, Stata, High Performance Computing with Argon | Free | January 7-10

Posted on December 17, 2018January 3, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

The University of Iowa, a pioneer in Informatics research, will host a data science institute featuring a number of mini-classes the week of January 7-10, 2019. The workshop is a collaborative effort between the Iowa Social Science Research Center (ISRC) and the Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3). The institute will teach participants about the basic building blocks of coding as applied in the fields of the Biological, Physical, Social Sciences, and Digital Humanities. We welcome faculty, staff, post-docs, graduate, and undergraduate students interested in building new skills in informatics. The topics for Spring 2019 include Introduction to Python, R, STATA and High Performance Computing. Faculty from UI3, Educational Measurement and Statistics and Political Science will teach the courses.

The Data Science Institute is sponsored by the Iowa Informatics Initiative (UI3) and the Iowa Social Science Research Center (ISRC).

The Data Science Institute for Spring 2019 will take place in Room 140 Schaeffer Hall.

image of asian man, glasses, in jacket — Dr. Kang P Lee

January 7, 2019 – 8:30 Am – 12:15 Pm: Introduction to Python Data Analytics – Dr. Kang Pyo Lee

This introductory class will cover the basic elements in Python data analytics and provide hands-on practice. The topics to be covered include an introduction to data analytics and Python, Python basics for data analysis, and data preparation/exploration/visualization using widely used data analytics libraries in Python. Participants will also be able to learn how to take advantage of an interactive web-based data analytics environment called Jupyter Notebook. No prior experience in Python is necessary for this class. Participants will be expected to bring their own laptops.

white man, drinking coffee, with baseball cap on — Professor Brandon Lebeau

January 8, 2019 – 8:30 Am – 12:15 Pm: Introduction to Tidyverse/R – Dr. Brandon Lebeau

This hands on course will provide an introduction to the tidyverse, a data analysis framework in R that provides users a simple vocabulary to data analysis. Topics covered will include: introduction to data visualization, data management, and exploratory data analysis using the tidyverse. This course is intended to be hands on, therefore attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop with R and RStudio already installed. No prior R knowledge is needed.

January 9, 2019 – 8:30 Am – 12:15 Pm: Introduction to Stata – Dr. Frederick J. Boehmke

This introductory course in Stata will cover the basics of data preparation and manipulation in Stata. Topics addressed will include importing data, merging and combining data sets, cleaning data, variables, variable manipulations, loops, and data visualization.

image of Indian man, tan shirt — Dr. Sai Ramadugu

January 10, 2019 – 8:30 Am – 12:15 Pm: – Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) using Argon – Dr. Sai Kumar Ramadugu

This session is intended for anyone who will be running jobs on Argon. The training session covers the following aspects:

How to make the most effective use of HPC resources
Connecting to the Argon cluster
Launching HPC jobs
Getting your data to and from Argon
Getting access to the software you need

For Introduction to HPC using Argon workshop, attendees need an account on the HPC cluster, Argon. If you do not have an account on Argon, you cannot do the hands-on session. Please apply HERE if you do not have an account.

Dec 12 2018

ClinicalKey, Scopus and many Elsevier journals working again

Posted on December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 by Sarah Andrews

ClinicalKey, Scopus and Science Direct should all be working as expected.

If you have problems, please call us at 319-335-9151.

Nov 29 2018

Hippocrates Translated by François Rabelais | December 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on November 29, 2018February 7, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

portrait of François Rabelais by unknown painter

HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.-ca. 368 B.C.). Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem. Lyons: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1543.

The John Martin Rare Book Room holds 21 titles by Hippocrates published from 1527 through the 1800’s. This volume, translated from the Greek to Latin is by François Rabelais (ca. 1490-1553?). Rabelais was a French physician, Catholic monk, and noted humanist, best known for his series —Pantagruel and Gargantua –the comic and satirical masterpieces directed against the superstitions and pretenses of his day.

He entered Montpellier to study medicine late in 1530 and by 1532 was physician to the Hôtel Dieu in Lyons. Rabelais compiled and edited the first edition of the present work while at Lyons in 1532. He was one of the first to lecture from Greek texts and, in the book’s dedicatory letter to his good friend Geoffroy d’Estissac, Bishop of Maillezais, indicates that the translation was made from his own ancient text because existing Latin translations were filled with errors. The Greek text of the Aphorismi with its own special title page is added at the end of the book. The book also includes Hippocrates’ De medico, medicine officio liber, Liber de lege, and Liber de specie, acie, visuve, & opsios oculorum corrupta.

Radiology, Cardiology, Anatomy & More | New eBooks Available on ClinicalKey

Posted on November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 by Sarah Andrews

- Arrhythmias in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (Balaji, Seshadri) 1st ed *NEW*
- Complications in Neurosurgery (Nanda, Anil) 1st ed *NEW*
- Endocrine and Reproductive Physiology (White, Bruce) 5th ed
- Essentials of Nuclear Medicine Imaging (Mettler, Fred) 7th ed
- Gastrointestinal Physiology (Johnson, Leonard) 9th ed
- Grainger & Allison’s Diagnostic Radiology Essentials (Grant, Lee Alexander) 2nd ed
- Gray’s Clinical Photographic Dissector of the Human Body (Loukas, Marios) 2nd ed
- Medical Secrets (Harward, Mary) 6th ed
- Molecular Biology (Clark, David) 3rd ed
- Muller’s Imaging of the Chest (Walker, Christopher) 2nd ed
- Neuroradiology: Spectrum and Evolution of Disease (Small, Juan) 1st ed; *NEW*
- Atlas of Endovascular Venous Surgery (Almeida, Jose) 2nd ed;
- Cardiac Intensive Care (Brown, David) 3rd ed
- Cardiovascular Physiology (Pappano, Achilles)11th ed
- Cell Biology (Pollard, Thomas) 3rd ed
- Central Nervous System Cancer Rehabilitation (Cristian, Adrian) 1st ed; *NEW*
- Challenging Neuropathic Pain Syndromes (Freedman, Mitchell) 1st ed; *NEW*
- Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology (Issa, Ziad) 3rd ed;
- Clinical Biochemistry: An Illustrated Colour Text (Murphy, Michael) 6th ed
- Clinical Pharmacology (Brown, Morris) 12th ed
- Creasy and Resnik’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine: Principles and Practice (Resnik, Robert) 8th ed
- Dubois’ Lupus Erythematosus and Related Syndromes (Wallace, Daniel) 9th ed
- Emery’s Elements of Medical Genetics (Turnpenny, Peter) 15th ed
- Fundamentals of Oncologic PET/CT (Ulaner, Gary) 1st ed; *NEW*
- Hutchison’s Clinical Methods (Glynn, Michael) 24th ed
- Kaplan’s Essentials of Cardiac Anesthesia for Noncardiac Surgery (Kaplan, Joel) *NEW*
- Netter’s Concise Radiologic Anatomy (Weber, Edward) Updated 2nd Ed
- Netter’s Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry (Norton, Neil) 3rd Ed
- Oh’s Intensive Care Manual (Bersten, Andrew) 8th ed
- Oral Pathology: A Comprehensive Atlas and Text (Woo, Sook-Bin) 2nd ed
- Physician Assistant: A Guide to Clinical Practice (Ballweg, Ruth) 6th ed
- Practical Cytopathology: A Diagnostic Approach to Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (Field, Andrew) 1st ed *NEW*
- Renal Physiology (Koeppen, Bruce) 6th ed
- Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis (Shaz, Beth) 3rd ed
- Underwood’s Pathology (Cross, Simon) 7th ed