Posts by: Sia Samiean
Our Graphic Medicine collection has been steadily growing with a number of new releases, and some old favorites that we’ve recently acquired. The HHSL Graphic Medicine collection can be found on the 4th floor across from the Library Service desk. Since the section’s inception in the summer of 2018, the collection has grown to include titles dealing with a wide range of healthcare issues; including, addiction, Alzheimer’s, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, down syndrome, epilepsy, LGBTQ health, OCD, and Parkinson’s disease. Graphic Medicine divulges the lived experiences of patients dealing with illness, as well as personal accounts of the challenges faced by medical professionals.
Below is a list of recent titles added to our collection:
- In-between days : a memoir about living with cancer
- Moose
- Pregnant butch : nine long months spent in drag
- What’s normal anyway? : a comic about being trans male
- Kid gloves : nine months of careful chaos
- A puff of smoke
- The lady doctor
- Fun home : a family tragicomic
I had the pleasure of discussing the value of Graphic Medicine as a format in healthcare communication at the Charleston Library Conference this past fall. The poster presentation is available at this link.
If there is a Graphic Medicine novel that we don’t have which you would like to read, please let us know by recommending a purchase.
Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and what better time to dive into some short stories for the long weekend. These are satisfying tales in small portions which you could read on your trip home, and that don’t require much commitment. We have numerous short story collections in our Leisure Reading section on the 4th floor for you to choose from, that would be ideal for just such an occasion:
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If there is a book that you’d like to read this holiday season, which you don’t see in our catalogue, please let us know by recommending a purchase.
Source: https://www.toonry.com/breathing-a-vein/
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Have fun out there, but don’t go bleeding yourself dry! Do however stop by the Special Collections display on the 6th floor if you’d like to see some grisly bloodletting tools. These bloodletting scarificators range in different styles and sizes for the whole family! And to better get acquainted with this age old art, below is a selection of books from our collection here at Hirsh:
Researches on the effects of bloodletting, 1836
Andreas Vesalius Bruxellensis: the bloodletting letter of 1539
Nine pints : a journey through the money, medicine, and mysteries of blood
Below are just a few of the books on the long list of new non-fiction titles to hit our shelves. Be sure to stop by the NEW BOOKS display on the 4th floor where the latest are featured.
- Chasing my cure : a doctor’s race to turn hope into action : a memoir / David Fajgenbaum.
- Caring for equality : a history of African American health and healthcare / David McBride.
- Plagues and the paradox of progress : why the world Is getting healthier in worrisome ways
- How the brain lost its mind : sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illness
- Polio : the odyssey of eradication / Thomas Abraham.
- Formerly known as food : how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture
- The racial divide in American medicine : Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care
- The reality bubble / Ziya Tong
As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you think we should own, please do let us know by recommending a purchase.
If you haven’t stopped by the New Books display recently, you are missing out on some great new titles that have come in! This summer I have been actively adding new releases to the collection, from leisure reading to graphic medicine to non-fiction books; including, GMO’s Decoded by Tufts faculty member, Dr. Sheldon Krimsky. Below is a selection of the latest books to hit our shelves. As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you would like to recommend, please let us know by using this link to recommend a purchase.
GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
How We Teach Science: What’s Changed, and Why It Matters
Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life
Leisure Reading
The DNA of You and Me: A Novel
Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Graphic Medicine
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
The North Shore is the place to be for festivals running all summer long. From the Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach, to the Salem Maritime Festival, to Gloucester’s famous Greasy Pole Contest of the St. Peter’s Fiesta, if you need to get out of the bustling city head north and explore these historic New England towns along the coast. Transportation is simple and easy, plus the MBTA is now offering $10 rail weekends. You can get to about any of these festivals by taking the Newburyport/Rockport line on the Commuter Rail.
St. Peter’s Fiesta! June 26-30, 2019 ~ Gloucester, MA
National Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach July, 26-28, 2019 ~ Revere Beach, MA
Yankee Homecoming July 27-August 4, 2019 ~ Newburyport, MA
Salem Maritime Festival August 3-4, 2019 ~ Salem, MA
Festival by the Sea August 3, 2019 ~ Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
39th Annual Gloucester Waterfront Festival August 17, 2019 ~ Gloucester, MA
Annual Rockport Jazz Festival August 4-11, 2019 ~ Rockport, MA
Best of the North Shore (BONS) Event August 20, 2019 ~ Ipswich, MA
Rockport Celtic Festival August 23-25, 2019 ~ Rockport, MA
RiverFest Seaside Music Festival August 24, 2019 ~ Gloucester, MA
Gloucester Schooner Festival August 30 – September 3, 2019 ~ Gloucester, MA
Peabody International Festival Artisan and Maker Street Fair September 8, 2019 ~ Peabody, MA
Our FREE BOOKS book-truck will be waiting for you down by the circulation desk on the 4th floor today–so don’t forget to swing by, and hopefully there will be a book or two or three that you’ll want to give a good home.
You may have noticed the Graphic Medicine collection on the 4th floor of the library along the journal wall. If you have been wondering what “Graphic Medicine” means exactly, or would like some guidance in this genre, I have created a LibGuide to help you get started. This LibGuide will provide you with a brief overview of the origins of Graphic Medicine, links to further readings, and people to follow if you are interested in staying up-to-date on the latest releases in the Graphic Medicine library.
PA EASY is now PA EXAM Prep, with several new and upcoming features. Note, that to create an individual account you must be on campus and working from an IP authenticated computer.
Here are some updates from the PA Exam Prep Team:
New Features:
- A full-length 300-question PANCE mock examination mapped to the latest (2019) PANCE blueprint in terms of medical content and task area category weight
- To access students will go to the main menu at the top left of their dashboard and go down to “Full Length Test”
- Practice questions in the new PANCE Professional Practice category
- To access students will go to “Create Your Own Quiz”à “Select Learning Objective”à “Task Area” à “Professional Practice”
A mobile app version of PA Exam Prep will also be available shortly, so students can practice questions at home or on-the-go. Students will be notified when the app is available.
It’s Stress Less Week and we have a number of humor books in our leisure reading collection to help you unwind. So take a moment or two for a little light-hearted reading, you deserve it! Here is a list of just some of the humor books in our collection:
- You’ll grow out of it by Jessi Klein
- Yes please by Amy Poehler
- Dad is fat by Jim Gaffigan
- Food : a love story by Jim Gaffigan
- Calypso by David Sedaris
- Let’s explore diabetes with owls by David Sedaris
- Are you there, vodka? It’s me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
- The world of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington, Stephen Merchant, and Ricky Gervais
- The Road to Little Dribbling : adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson
- Sh*t my dad says by Justin Halpern
- I’m with fatty : losing fifty pounds in fifty miserable weeks by Edward Ugel
- The New Yorker book of doctor cartoons and psychiatrist
- Heart and brain : gut instincts by Nick Seluk
- I feel bad about my neck : and other thoughts on being a woman by Nora Ephron
- Night of the crash-test dummies : a far side collection by Gary Larson
- Can’t we talk about something more pleasant? by Roz Chast
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