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Posted by Ruth Lewis on 01/07/2016 at 10:49 AM in Library News | Permalink | Comments (0)

Spring 2016 talks at WU on the history of science, medicine, technology

January 20: Mind the Gap: Avicenna’s New Argument against Actually Infinite Space and Its Reception. Jon McGinness (UMSL) Life Sciences 202 @ 12:00 pm. History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine Seminar Series

January 21: 49th Historia Medica "The History of Thoracic Surgery at Washington University" January 21, 2016 at 4:30 pm Bernard Becker Medical Library, King Center (7th floor) Marc Moon, MD John M. Shoenberg Chair in Cardiovascular Disease; Chief, Cardiac Surgery; Director, Center for Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta; Program Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency Washington University School of Medicine

March 1: Book Workshop: The Multiple Realization Book Larry Shapiro (Wisconsin) and Tom Polger (Cincinnatti) TBA @ 12:00 pm. History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine Seminar Series

March 10: 50th Historia Medica "Poison Trials: Testing Antidotes in Early Modern Europe" March 10, 2016 at 4:30 pm Bernard Becker Medical Library, King Center (7th floor) Alisha Rankin, PhD Associate Professor of History Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

April 13: Social values, scientific practice, and the nature of contemporary science.Ingo Brigandt (Calgary) Life Science 202 @ 12:00 pm. History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine Seminar Series

April 21: 51st Historia Medica "Goat Gland Messiah: The Bizarre Rise and Spectacular Fall of Dr. John R. Brinkley" April 21, 2016 at 5:30 pm Bernard Becker Medical Library, King Center (7th floor) L. Lewis, Wall, MD, DPhil Selina Okin Kim Connor Professor in Arts and Sciences for Medical Anthropology Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology Washington University in St. Louis

Please send additional events to Ruth Lewis so I can add to this post. Thank you.

Historia Medica series

History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine series

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 11/30/2015 at 10:22 AM in WU News & Events | Permalink | Comments (0)

Acquisitions, October-November 2015

This is a list of books added to our catalog with call number Q-T and history or biography in the subject headings plus a few books added by request. This is not a comprehensive list of new books. There are certainly other new books related to the history of science, technology and medicine, so please search the catalog for specific titles. Requests welcome! You can send requests to Ruth Lewis, to your primary Subject Librarian, or to the book request form. Please click on the titles for current location and status of the book. Remember that the Becker Medical Library also adds books and ebooks which may interest WU history of science folks!

Because of the way this search in done, ebooks are not found as readily as paper books.

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 11/30/2015 at 10:13 AM in Books & Ebooks | Permalink | Comments (0)

Miscellaneous news from Oct-Nov 2015 for history of science, medicine and technology

-- Ruth's office location is now Olin 318, Olin Library level 3, the first set of Staff Offices south of the Administrative Suite. It should actually be a bit easier to find me and drop in now. Visitors welcome! My phone number and email address stay the same: 935-4819, rlewis@wustl.edu

-- The next summary email for Library News for History of Science, Medicine & Technology will be sent about February 1, 2016. The plan is that this blog will move when the library website is updated in early January 2016.
-- The new URL will be library.wustl.edu/category/history-of-science-medicine-and-technology/.
-- The RSS feed will be library.wustl.edu/category/history-of-science-medicine-and-technology/feed.
-- About that time older posts will be archived and available at wayback.archive-it.org/4359/20141120162543/https://wulibraries.typepad.com/hsmt/.
The above links may not work until after the website moves.

-- I thought you might find this open access article interesting: Galileo as viewed through scientometric looking glass by Dutta Bidyarthi (2015) 4(2):85-95. DOI: 10.4103/2320-0057.167249

-- The Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Life Sciences Foundation are merging to form a new entity: a single organization with headquarters in Philadelphia and a West Coast presence committed to capturing, preserving and sharing the history of science and its role in shaping society.

-- From WU Record: Arts & Sciences launches medical humanities minor: Q&A with Rebecca Messbarger, Corinna Treitel

-- New Competition Recognizes Student Research Using Special Collections "To encourage such research, the Department of Special Collections has established the Mendel Sato Research Award competition. Any undergraduate or graduate student may compete by completing a research project that uses Special Collections holdings and is under the mentorship of, or in collaboration with, a faculty member." First deadlines in February 2016!

-- The new library website will be live on Jan. 6, 2016. It's not too late to review the Beta version and send us your feedback. What's missing? What's confusing? What's great? More information on the redesign.

-- A bit more about upcoming changes in access to West Campus Library: Staff relocations to West Campus Library, in preparation for upcoming Olin Library renovations, are driving our need to secure the West Campus library. This change is expected to take place in early January 2016, and should not greatly impact your ability to use the West Campus Library and its collections. Here’s what you might be wondering:

Can I still browse the West Campus Library stacks? Yes! You may do so by scheduling an appointment in advance. Details about how to make an appointment TBA.
Will the collections at West Campus Library still be accessible? Yes! In addition to the option of browsing the collections in person by making an appointment, you will also continue to have access by placing a Request through the online catalog, by new delivery services being developed, by requesting a particular article using Interlibrary Loan, or by contacting the appropriate Special Collections department.
Other questions? Please ask Ruth or contact Sarah Laaker, Manager of Library User Space Planning & Campus Liaison, at slaaker@wustl.edu.

-- Registration for ITEACH 2016 in now open! ITEACH will be Jan. 13, 2016 at the Knight Center. Schedule and more info

-- Encyclopedia of Early Modern History Online and Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online--DATABASE TRIAL until 12/31/15 Please give feedback to Ruth Lewis or to your primary subject librarian. Thank you.

-- Annual Display of Rare Anatomical Texts at the Becker Library, Wednesday, Dec.2, 1-4 pm in the King Center, 7th floor Bernard Becker Medical Library

--A large number of Gale databases and digital archives have been acquired by the libraries. Many could probably be useful for specific history of science, medicine and technology projects.

-- Book metrics: Citation, usage and alternative metrics have not been systematically available or used for books and books chapters; plus we don't have years of experience to know what various numbers might mean about impact in humanities disciplines. However, the Bookmetrix data from Springer may interest you. Even when we have the book in paper instead of online via Springer, the citations, download and other use data, for the whole book and for chapters, is available on the Springer site. For example see one of our new paper books: New perspectives on the history of life sciences and agriculture on the Springer site and click on Book Metrics on the right side of the screen or go directly to this book's Bookmetrix site. For more examples, browse other volumes in the Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology or History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences series.

-- Posts on Scholarly Communications @ WU Libraries, Oct-Nov, 2015:

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 11/24/2015 at 04:01 PM in Library News, Miscellaneous, Scholarly Communication | Permalink | Comments (0)

Miscellaneous news from Aug-Sept 2015 for history of science, medicine and technology

-- Register Now for Fall 2015 Research Studio Series Each class this fall will be offered twice. Please let Ruth know if there are classes you would like us to create or scheduling preferences so we can add your suggestions into the Spring list of classes. Thanks.

-- Save the date! Jan. 13, 2016 is ITEACH 2016.

-- Check out NLM’s Unique Early English Books Now Online.

-- In September the American Historical Association published Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians.

-- Planning has begun to secure West Campus Library this year. More details will be available later. In-person visits to the collections there will still be possible but will need to be arranged in advance. Delivery of materials or scanned files from West Campus collections will be enhanced. Watch for updates in What's New.

-- As reported in Student Life, experiments have also begun to provide delivery of books to campus mail boxes for requestors who do not wish to pick up items at a Danforth Campus Library. Again watch for updates in What's New when the new service is available.

-- Please take note: A Call to Faculty: Take Part in Data Curation Pilot

-- The report from the Ithaka Local Faculty Survey, which many of you filled out in March 2015, is now available at https://libguides.wustl.edu/IthakaSurvey2015. Topics covered in the survey:

faculty members’ usage and attitudes towards print and digital scholarly materials
faculty members’ digital research activities and methods
practices and attitudes regarding students’ research skills
undergraduate instruction practices
the role of the library in supporting faculty members’ needs
behaviors regarding research dissemination
faculty members’ data preservation and management behaviors and needs

-- Change coming to this blog: As a part of the work of bringing up a new library website, we will begin a new system of library blogs sometime in October. Although the content of this old blog will be archived, it will not be moved to the new WordPress site. There's a lot I don't know yet about the new system, but I hope I will still be able to push out a summary of posts via email every 2 months. I'll send more information when I know it.

-- Posts on Scholarly Communications @ WU Libraries from August-September:

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 09/30/2015 at 10:16 AM in Library News, Miscellaneous, Scholarly Communication | Permalink | Comments (0)

Trial Access to the Digital Loeb Classical Library through November 2015

We have just begun trial access to the Digital Loeb Classical Library; the trial will run through the end of November.

The mission of the Loeb Classical Library is to make Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers. The digital Loeb Classical Library presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture — in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available. Please note that some of the site’s most useful tools are features of “My Loebs,” the personal accounts available to all authorized users. You may create your own accounts (via the “Sign up” link at the top of each page on the site) to utilize the digital Loeb Classical Library’s full capabilities.

Please send Ruth Lewis or your primary subject librarian any feedback you have about this resource. Thanks.

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 09/23/2015 at 05:35 PM in Books & Ebooks | Permalink | Comments (0)

Acquisitions, August-September 2015

This is a list of books added to our catalog with call number Q-T and history or biography in the subject headings. This is not a comprehensive list of new books. There are certainly other new books related to the history of science, technology and medicine, so please search the catalog for specific titles. Requests welcome! You can send requests to Ruth Lewis, to your primary Subject Librarian, or to the book request form. Please click on the titles for current location and status of the book. Remember that the Becker Medical Library also adds books and ebooks which may interest WU history of science folks!

Because of the way this search in done, ebooks are not found as readily as paper books.

60 years of CERN experiments and discoveries [electronic resource] / edited by Herwig Schopper (CERN) and Luigi Di Lella (CERN). Advanced series on directions in high energy physics ; v. 23. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2015]
Anatomist : a true story of Gray's anatomy / Bill Hayes. New York : Ballantine Books, c2008.
Bumpy road : Max Planck from radiation theory to the quantum (1896-1906) / Massimiliano Badino SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology. Cham : Springer, [2015]
Cultural history of fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries : from catwalk to sidewalk / Bonnie English. London : Bloomsbury, 2013.
Cultures of control / edited by Miriam R. Levin. Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; v. 9. Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, ©2000.
Cybernetics moment, or, why we call our age the information age / Ronald R. Kline. New studies in American intellectual and cultural history. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]
Development history of the telescope in China / Yu Sanle zhu. Beijing Shi : She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 2013.
Einstein and Lorentz : the structure of a scientific revolution / W. Brouwer. 1980 paper in special collections
Electric theories of J. Clerk Maxwell : a historical and critical study / Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem translated by Alan Aversa. Boston studies in the philosophy and history of science v. 314. Cham : Springer, [2015]
Evening news : optics, astronomy, and journalism in early modern Europe / Eileen Reeves. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2014.
Fantasia of color in early cinema / Tom Gunning, Joshua Yumibe, Giovanna Fossati, Jonathan Rosen foreword by Martin Scorsese with an annotated filmography by Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi. Framing Film. Amsterdam : EYE Filmmuseum : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
How to survive a plague [videorecording] / Public Square Films presents a France/Tomchin film in association with Ford Foundation/Justfilms, Impact Partners and Little Punk directed by David France written by David France, T. Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk produced by Howard Gertler, David France executive producer, Joy Tomchin, Dan Cogan. New York, NY : IFC Films : Sundance Selects : MPI Media Group, [2013]
Hubble's legacy : reflections by those who dreamed it, built it, and observed the universe with it / edited by Roger D. Launius and David H. DeVorkin Smithsonian contribution to knowledge. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2014
In and about the Missouri School of Mines : the photography of George E. Ladd, director of MSM, 1897-1907. [Rolla, Mo.] : [University of Missouri-Rolla], [2000]
Indian doctors in Kenya, 1890-1940 : the forgotten history / Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala. Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Kekkaku no bunkashi : kindai Nihon ni okeru yamai no imēji / Fukuda Mahito cho. Nagoya-shi : Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai, 1995.
Lady tasting tea : how statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century / David Salsburg. New York : Henry Holt, 2002.
Least likely man : Marshall Nirenberg and the discovery of the genetic code / Franklin H. Portugal. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Making the new world their own : Chinese encounters with Jesuit science in the age of discovery / by Qiong Zhang. History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions. Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Marking modern times : a history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life / Alexis McCrossen. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Medicare and Medicaid at 50 : America's entitlement programs in the age of affordable care / edited by Alan B. Cohen, David C. Colby, Keith A. Wailoo, and Julian E. Zelizer. Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Medicine and the market in England and its colonies, c.1450-c.1850 / edited by Mark S.R. Jenner and Patrick Wallis. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture. Chapter 10. Marking the Face, Curing the Soul? Reading the Disfigurement of Women in the Later Middle Ages / Patricia Skinner. Suffolk (UK): Boydell & Brewer; 2015.
Molecularizing biology and medicine : new practices and alliances, 1910s-1970s / edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Harmke Kamminga. Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine v. 6. Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998.
Notes on an emergency : a journal of recovery / Elizabeth Léonie Simpson. New York : Norton, ©1982.
Particle dark matter [electronic resource] : observations, models and searches / edited by Gianfranco Bertone. Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Photographic theory : an historical anthology / edited by Andrew E. Hershberger. Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
Plague and public health in early modern Seville / Kristy Wilson Bowers Rochester studies in medical history. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2013.
Revolution in time : clocks and the making of the modern world / David S. Landes. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
Science in China, 1600-1900 : essays by Benjamin A. Elman / editor Ho Yi Kai. Hackensack, NJ : World Century Singapore Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2015]
Science, Cold War and the American state : Lloyd V. Berkner and the balance of professional ideals / Allan A. Needell. Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine v. 10. Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Abingdon : Marston, 2000.
Sex and control : venereal disease, colonial physicians, and indigenous agency in German colonialism, 1884-1914 / Daniel J. Walther. Monographs in German history v. 36. New York : Berghahn, 2015.
Special effects : new histories/theories/contexts / edited by Dan North, Bob Rehak, Michael S. Duffy. London : BFI, Palgrave, 2015.
Thomas De Quincey and the cognitive unconscious / Markus Iseli. Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Universo o nada : biografía del estrellero Guillermo Haro / Elena Poniatowska. Tres mundos. Barcelona : Editorial Seix Barral, 2014.
Uranium : war, energy, and the rock that shaped the world / Tom Zoellner. New York : Penguin, 2010.

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 09/23/2015 at 02:45 PM in Books & Ebooks | Permalink | Comments (0)

New library website - beta version - to launch Sept. 8, 2015

Over the past several months, the WU Libraries have been migrating the content of its current website to a WordPress platform. Library staff members have worked closely with the Office of Public Affairs to adopt a theme (look, feel, and navigation system) for the new site that can be implemented by other schools and departments to create consistency across campus.

While the design of the Libraries’ site will change along with the URLs of some of your favorite bookmarked links, no functionality will be lost. You will still be able to search the catalog, databases, Research Guides, and other library resources—hopefully with greater ease than before. The new site may require some adjustment, but we’re confident that this will be a welcome change for users.

On September 8, a link will be placed on the current library website to the redesigned site, or you may preview it now at https://library-prod.wustl.edu/. We welcome your feedback! Watch for the site to go live over winter break 2015. More information on the redesign.

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 08/26/2015 at 04:56 PM in Library News | Permalink | Comments (0)

Fall 2015 talks at WU on the history of science, medicine, technology

Sept. 9: “Convergent Evolution as Natural Experiment: The Tape of Life Reconsidered.” Russell Powell (Department of Philosophy, Boston University; Visiting Scholar, WUSTL Fall Term) Life Sciences 202 @ 12:00 pm. History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine series

Sept. 17: 46th Historia Medica: "Medical Ethics and Frankenstein's Monster" September 17, 2015 at 4:30 pm, Bernard Becker Medical Library, King Center (7th floor)
Ira J. Kodner, MD, Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine

Sept. 30: Fifth Annual Bohigian Lectureship for the History of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences: "The Eyes have it: The First Systematic Book on Ocular Diseases, 1583"
Lilla Vekerdy, MA, MLS, Head of Special Collections, Smithsonian Libraries Wednesday, September 30, 2015, Bernard Becker Medical Library, King Center (7th floor)
Before and after the lecture see the original book by Georg Bartisch (1535-1607) “Ophthalmoduleia” next door in the Becker Archives & Rare Books Library
5:00 – 5:30 pm Refreshments and Meet the Speaker
5:30 – 6:30 pm The Eyes have it: The First Systematic Book on Ocular Diseases, 1583

Oct. 12: Hall Lecture: Dr. Elisabeth Lloyd, Indiana University; "The Orgasm Debates: How social and theoretical biases lead us astray" October 12, 2015 - 4:00pm location: Lab Sciences 300. More info.

Oct. 14: “Model Robustness in Evolutionary Theory” Lisa Lloyd (Arnold and Maxine Tanis Chair in History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University) Life Sciences 202 @ 12:00 pm. History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine series

Oct. 20: “Are Numbers Necessary for Informed Consent? From Ethics to Philosophy and Back” Dr. Peter Schwartz MD/PhD, Life Sciences 202 @ 12:00 pm. History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine series. More info.

Oct. 22: 47th Historia Medica: Title: "Harriet, Hirrel, Jessie - and a Few Surprises: The Earliest Women at Washington University School of Medicine" October 22, 2015 at 4:30 pm Bernard Becker Medical Library, King Center (7th floor) Candace O'Connor, PhD Independent Scholar. More information.

Nov. 12: 48th Historia Medica: Title: "The Licensing Function of Galenic Anatomical Procedures, Text and Practice" November 12, 2015 at 4:30 pm Bernard Becker Medical Library, King Center (7th floor) Luis A. Salas, PhD Assistant Professor of Classics Washington University in St. Louis

Nov. 18: “Fighting with the Heart of a Beast: Galen's Use of Exotic Animal Anatomy against Cardiocentrists” Luis Salas (Professor of Philosophy & Classics, WUSTL) Life Sciences 202 @ 12:00 pm. History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine series

Please send additional events to Ruth Lewis so I can add to this post. Thank you.

Historia Medica series

History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine series

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 08/26/2015 at 09:29 AM in WU News & Events | Permalink | Comments (0)

Some history of science eMO collection ebooks added in August 2015

Browse some of the newest ebooks in the eMO collection. Reminder: eMO ebooks are NOT available on the WU medical campus; sorry!

More information About eMO / Ebschohost ebook collection - includes information on the NEW Ebsco ebooks app!

Posted by Ruth Lewis on 08/25/2015 at 03:36 PM in Books & Ebooks | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Trial Access to the Digital Loeb Classical Library through November 2015

Acquisitions, August-September 2015

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Fall 2015 talks at WU on the history of science, medicine, technology

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