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Elizabeth Wurtzel on the beach with her dog Alistair in 2017 | image from Wikimedia Commons
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.
Addiction Medicine: Science and Practice (Johnson, Bankole) 2nd ed
Assessment and Treatment of Addiction, The(Danovitch, Itai) **NEW**
Atlas of Facial Implants (Yaremchuk, Michael) 2nd ed **NEW**
Atlas of Uncommon Pain Syndromes (Waldman, Steven) 4th ed
Before We Are Born (Moore, Keith) 10th ed
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapies for Cancer (Lee, Daniel) **NEW**
Clinical Care of the Runner (Harrast, Mark) **NEW**
Concussion (Eapen, Blessen) **NEW**
Conn’s Current Therapy 2020 (Kellerman, Rick)
Enzinger and Weiss’s Soft Tissue Tumors (Goldblum, John) 7th ed
Essential Surgery: Problems, Diagnosis and Management (Quick, Clive) 6th ed
Fundamentals of Emergency Ultrasound (McGahan, John) **NEW**
Immunotherapies for Allergic Disease (Cox, Linda) **NEW**
Introduction to Vascular Ultrasonography (Pellerito, John) 7th ed
Kanski’s Clinical Ophthalmology (Salmon, John) 9th ed
Medical Genetics (Jorde, Lynn) 6th ed;
Middleton’s Allergy: Principles and Practice (Burks, A. Wesley) 9th ed
Minimally Invasive Breast Surgery (Lai, Hung-Wen) **NEW**
Munro Kerr’s Operative Obstetrics (Arulkumaran, Sri Sabaratnam) 13th ed
Oncoplastic Surgery of the Breast (Nahabedian, Maurice) 2nd ed
Pediatric Hand Therapy (Abzug, Joshua) **NEW**
Surgery of the Hip (Berry, Daniel) 2nd ed
Total Knee Arthroplasty (Scott, Richard) 3rd ed
Umphred’s Neurological Rehabilitation (Lazaro, Rolando) 7th ed
Williams Textbook of Endocrinology (Melmed, Shlomo) 14th ed
Art and Science of Facelift Surgery, The (Niamtu, Joe) **NEW**
Atlas of Reconstructive Breast Surgery (Pu, Lee) **NEW**
Community Pharmacy (Rutter, Paul) 4th ed
Current Surgical Therapy (Cameron, Andrew) 13th ed
Disorders of the Rotator Cuff and Biceps Tendon (Provencher, Matthew) **NEW**
Essential Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Symonds, Ian) 6th ed
Global Reconstructive Surgery (Chang, James) **NEW**
Green’s Skeletal Trauma in Children (Mencio, Gregory) 6th ed
Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice (Knechtle, Stuart) 8th ed
Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney (Yu, Alan) 11th ed
Onco-Nephrology (Finkel, Kevin) **NEW**
Musculoskeletal MRI (Major, Nancy) 3rd ed
Peters’ Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (Nabarro, Laura) 7th ed
Problem Solving in Chest Imaging (Digumarthy, Subba) **NEW**
Rheumatology Secrets (West, Sterling) 4th ed
Workbook of Practical Neonatology (Polin, Richard) 6th ed
Core Techniques in Operative Neurosurgery (Jandial, Rahul) 2nd ed
Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics: Cardiovascular, Respiratory, and Gastrointestinal Disorders (Pyeritz, Reed) 7th ed
Kern’s Cardiac Catheterization Handbook (Sorajja, Paul) 7th ed
Klaus and Fanaroff’s Care of the High-Risk Neonate (Fanaroff, Avroy) 7th ed
Skeletal Trauma: Basic Science, Management, and Reconstruction (Browner, Bruce) 6th ed
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ROBERT KNOX (1791-1862). Man, his structure and physiology : popularly explained and demonstrated. 2nd ed. London ; New York: H. Bailliere, 1858.
Robert Knox lithograph from Wellcome Trust
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 the basis for a better understanding of the structure and nature of all living bodies.
He hoped that this elementary yet detailed introduction would encourage the reader to pursue further study in not only human anatomy, but also in the field of zoology. One of the best and most enthusiastic teachers of anatomy during the 19th century, Knox’s emphasis upon practical dissection led to his indiscreet and notorious association with the Edinburgh ‘resurrectionists’, Burke and Hare. When their crimes came to light, he was implicated, savagely attacked in the literature of the day, and his effigy was burnt by the populace.
Although exonerated by Burke, an influential committee of his peers accused him of acting incautiously and failing to ensure that his assistants properly vetted their cadaver suppliers. The episode haunted him and tarnished the rest of his career. He then turned his attention to ethnology and anthropology, and found some success in these fields.
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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. Upon the death of Francis I in 1547, Guidi was recalled to Italy by Cosimo I, ruler of Tuscany, and became his personal physician and professor of philosophy and medicine at Pisa.
When Guidi came to Paris, he brought with him a copy of a tenth-century Greek surgical manuscript as a gift for the French monarch. Guidi was able to complete his Latin translation and commentary on the manuscript and published this work. The book is a compilation of what was then known about treating wounds and fractures, especially war wounds. Most of the book is devoted to Hippocrates’ writings on ulcers, fistulas, and head wounds with Guidi’s commentaries and observations, and Galen’s commentaries on Hippocrates’ works on fractures and joints.
The artist of this book is thought to be Francesco Salviati and was formerly attributed to artist Francesco Primaticcio. This book is often considered to be the finest textbook of surgery printed in the 16th century.
Guido Guidi (Florence 1509–1569 Pisa) Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa, Vido Vidio Fiorentino interprete, 1544 French, Printed book with 210 woodcut illustrations; Overall: 14 3/4 x 10 x 1 15/16 in. (37.4 x 25.4 x 5 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947 (47.21) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/351242
