New Exhibit in the Lobby: Deadly Medicine

The Fulginiti Pavilion will be opening its next exhibit Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, a traveling exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in conjunction with the Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program at the Fulginiti.

The exhibit at the Fulginiti will be opening on March 20, and will be there from March 20 through May 22, 2018. The opening reception will be Thursday, March 22 from 5-8pm.

The new exhibit in the main lobby at HSL features information about the upcoming exhibit and also some related materials from the library.  HSL partnered with the Fulginiti to open this exhibit and the exhibit contains materials from both organizations.

The Fulginiti measured the case and added the great banner at the back of the case.  The images on the two sides of the case also show previous Holocaust-related exhibits that visited the Fulginiti.  On the left are images from the exhibit Four Questions by Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman, and on the right IWASWILLBE: The Holocaust Series, Paintings by Geoffrey Laurence.

 

Six of the books in the case are provided by faculty:

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton (also available at the library)

Jewish Eugenics by John Glad

Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene by Aly, Pross, and Chroust

Medicine, Ethics, and the Third Reich by John J. Michalczyk

Racial Hygiene by Robert N. Proctor (also available at the library)

Doctors Under Hitler by Michael H. Kater (also available at the library)

 

The other five books are from the collections at HSL:

Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, the volume about the exhibit by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (from the Medical Humanities collection)

Jews and Medicine: Religion, Culture, Science by Natalia Berger (from the Indigenous collection) (open to the chapter, Jewish Medicine During the Holocaust in the Ghettos and Forests by Daniel Nadav)

When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust by Arthur L. Caplan

The Last Witness: The Child Survivor of the Holocaust by Judith S. Kestenberg and Ira Brenner

Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy edited by Helmut Ferner (located in the Oversize collection, a three volume set with volume one in the exhibit case)

HSL Welcomes SOM MSA Capstone Poster Presentations

On Thursday, March 1st, HSL will be hosting the School of Medicine’s Mentored Scholarly Activity Capstone Poster Presentations on the first floor of the library.

You can find more information about the event on their website.  The event is scheduled for noon-5 PM.  Check out the session times here:

What: MSA Capstone Poster Presentations
When: Thursday, March 1st, 2018
Where: AMC Health Sciences Library
Schedule: Student assignments will be sent out
Registration: 12:00 pm- 1:00pm.
Session 1: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm.
Session 2: 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm.
Session 3: 3:35 pm – 4:30 pm.

This is a very busy event and usually takes up most of the first floor of the library.  To all those regular patrons out there, please be warned it will be noisy and busy that day.

 

February is Heart Month

In conjunction with Valentine’s Day, February is also Heart Month.  Listed here are the information pages and links for different organizations who feature more information. This is just a brief list to spread awareness, there are many others!

 

The Heart Foundation: Heart Health Month

Heart Failure Society of America: Heart Failure Awareness Week 2018, Feb 11-17

American Heart Association: American Heart Month

NIH (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute): American Heart Month

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: American Heart Month

Centers for Disease Control: American Heart Month

Million Hearts: American Heart Month

Go Red for Women, the American Heart Association’s national movement to end heart disease and stroke.

 

Using Our Privilege for Good

HSL published a new slide on the library homepage announcing a new event, Using Our Privilege for Good.

As part of the Power & Empowerment Series, Dr. Brenda J. Allen, Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, is hosting an interactive event to explore how power and privilege matter to the campus.

The event is Wednesday, February 21st, from noon-1:30 pm, in the Krugman Conference Hall.

Please register here if you are planning to attend.

Color Our Collections 2018

The 2018 Color Our Collections project, hosted by the New York Academy of Medicine, will run February 5-9.  The week-long international coloring fest on social media features images contributed by libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions from all over the world. All images are in the public domain and will be freely available with the hashtag #ColorOurCollections. You are invited to browse, download, and color as many images as you like, and if you are so inclined, please share your creation on social media with the hashtag.

The Health Sciences Library offers eleven images from works in the Rare Materials Collection, ranging from 16^th-century woodcuts to 19^th-century wood engravings and lithographs, on an equally wide-ranging variety of topics. Many printed illustrations were intended to be hand-colored, especially those published before 1800, and while altering pages of the library’s rare treasures is usually discouraged, you are now encouraged to do exactly that.

While the #ColorOurCollections event only lasts one week, the images will be available all year at the event website: http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/

Rare materials are available to individuals or groups by appointment on Wednesday mornings and Thursday afternoons, or at other times by arrangement. To schedule an appointment, contact Emily Epstein, emily.Epstein@ucdenver.edu or 303-724-2119.

[Emily Epstein, Cataloging Librarian]

 

Update:

The Color Our Collections documents have been added to the digital repository, so users can access them if they would like to print and color them:

https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/handle/10968/2231

Mapping the Body: Poetry & Anatomical Art

Bringing Health and Care Back to Healthcare Conference – January 18th

The Health Sciences Library and the Strauss-Wisneski Collection Committee are a few of the collaborators organizing an upcoming conference that will look at healing, wholeness and resiliency.  Join us for the Bringing Health and Care Back to Healthcare conference that will take place on January 18, 2018.

Our panel of health care innovators will share insights, proven holistic concepts and provide a toolkit which participants can immediately use to enhance their practice, the lives of their patients and their personal well-being.

The program is grounded in proven, evidence-based research frameworks. We’ll also discover through experiential exercises, how to incorporate self-care and resiliency practices to awaken a vital new you and reignite passion for whole-person caring.

We’ll explore together how to bring healing and wholeness back to your personal support networks and workplace to:

• improve your health;
• decrease fatigue and burnout;
• reduce staff turnover; and
• improve patient outcomes and satisfaction.

Who should attend?

Everyone working in our health care systems that is interested in improving skills, communications and knowledge within care teams especially Nurses, Social Workers, APPs and Physicians.

For additional information, please visit the conference website.