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In this issue:
- New History of Medicine Lecture
- New Psychology Databases: PsyTESTS and PsycTHERAPY
- Resource Highlight: Health Politics and Policy - 4 volume set
- FCC & Mobile Carriers to Thwart Cellphone Thefts ...
... and more
Late last month the Columbia University Libraries announced a new way to search library resources, CLIO Beta. This new search tool not only searches the traditional catalog, CLIO, but also the search tool Summon, the University’s digital repository (Academic Commons), the library archives and more. CLIO Beta will eventually replace the current version CLIO, however, the default will continue to be the current version of CLIO for some time yet.
Check out the improved search options, clearer results formatting and item-specific requesting options (i.e. interlibrary loan, inter-campus delivery, etc.) at CLIObeta.columbia.edu. If you have suggestions for the CLIO Beta development team there is a feedback tab on every page and known issues are...
The CUMC Spring Art Show will kick off this Saturday, March 31st. with an opening reception from 4.30pm.-7.30pm. in the Reading Room on Lower Level One, LL-112.
The show is a collection of work by the CUMC community and is comprised of a multitude of styles. The work will be hung on Lower level 1 and Lower level 2 and will remain in place till the end of May.
Stephen Sands, Psy.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics & Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-authored:
Long-term follow-up children treated for high-grade gliomas: Children's Oncology Group L991 final study report (PubMed link)
Journal of Clinical Oncology, March 2012, Volume 30, Issue 9, Pages 943-49
- Civil War Medicine - New Exhibit in Hammer
- Medical Heritage Library Gets New Grant from NEH
- CLIO Beta Now Official
- Be Careful When Installing Apps ...
... and more
Last week the National Endowment for the Humanities announced an award funding the newest Medical Heritage Library digitization project. The Archives & Special Collections along with the medical libraries of Yale, Harvard and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia will partner to create a freely accessible digital collection of American medical journals published between 1797 and 1923. Columbia will provide 25% of the estimated 1,840 total volumes.
Eric R. Kandel, MD
University Professor & Kavli Professor of Brain Science in Neuroscience
Authored:
The age of insight: The quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain, from Vienna 1900 to the present.(CLIO record)
New York: Random House, 2012
John M. Saroyan, MD FAAP
Assistant Professor of Pediatric Pain Management and Palliative Care in Anesthesiology
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Associate Medical Director, Pediatric Pain Medicine and Palliative Care College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Director, Pediatric Advanced Care Team Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian
and
Nomita Sonty, MPhil, PhD
Associate clinical professor
Director, Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pain and Palliative Care
Department of Anesthesiology Columbia University Medical Center
March 5 - May 18, 2012
Lower Level 2
Archives & Special Collections is pleased to announce a new exhibit, "Civil War Medicine," commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Using original books, medical journals, letters, and documents, the exhibit tells how American medicine coped with the greatest war in our nation's history with total casualties of 620,000.
As one scholar noted, the Civil War took place during "the very last years of the medical middle ages." When war broke out in 1861, the bacteriological revolution of Pasteur, Lister, and Koch was still a decade away. The usual medical practice of bleeding the patient and of dosing him with massive quantities of calomel and antimony probably did more harm than good. Overall mortality for the sick and wounded was about 53%...
Anil K. Lalwani, MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research
Director, Division of Otology
Director, Columbia Cochlear Implant Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-edited:
Recent Advances in Otolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery (Publisher link)
Maryland Heights: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd, 2012
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