Coming in November, 1999
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AAUP Online Catalog | The Physician's Art: Representations of Art and Medicine
This exhibition will open November 4, 1999 at the Duke University Museum of Art and run through January 16, 2000. Organized by Guest Curator Julie V. Hansen, a specialist in seventeenth-century art and science, and Suzanne Porter, Medical Center Library Curator of the History of Medicine Collections, the show includes over one hundred rare and remarkable objects drawn from the historical collections of the four North Carolina medical schools. In addition to Duke, East Carolina University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University have participated in this collaboration. Several items on loan to the Duke Medical Center Library from the Duke-Semans Fine Arts Foundation and from Dr. Verne L. Roberts have also been included, with their permission. |
Throughout the centuries, images have been used to convey the meaning of a medical text. Examples abound in books on anatomy and in herbals. Instruments and equipment used to facilitate treatments and cures, such as a brass tourniquet or an apothecary jar can themselves be works of art. Among the items on display will be sixteenth- and seventeenth-century illustrated books, ivory manikins, broadsides and fugitive sheets with moveable flaps, a bronze muscle figure, a surgical field manual and a renaissance amputation saw, a bas-relief skeleton carved from a single piece of ivory, and an African healing figure.
A 144-page, richly illustrated catalogue, which includes a distinguished essay contributed by Martin Kemp,
professor of history at Oxford, will accompany the exhibition and be available for purchase at the Museum or from Duke University Press. An opening reception, with a lecture delivered by Thomas Robisheaux of the Duke History Department, will be held on the evening of Friday, November 12th. Both the exhibition and the catalogue were made possible by generous donations from foundations and individuals. For more information, contact Suzanne Porter at 660-1143.
June 30, 1999
More Full Text Journals Available
The Library has nearly doubled the number of available
full text electronic journals:
- Sixty-seven clinical and 23 nursing titles have been added to those in Ovid MEDLINE and other databases. You can read text of articles in these journals during the course of a search in the Ovid databases (just click on the "Full Text" link in the reference), or you can browse articles in an individual Ovid title -- they are marked with the
logo in the list of e-journals on our Website.
- Elsevier Science is the largest publisher of biomedical journals. The Library has worked out a joint agreement with the UNC Health Sciences Library to offer to both campuses all of the Elsevier titles to which either subscribes, some 250 on a wide variety of subjects. These can be accessed individually by title from the list of e-journals on our site, or as a group through Elsevier's Direct service. (Check their site for a demo of special features.)
Exhibit on Display in June and July, 1999
Come & Explore History's Treasures
For the inquiring mind...Come in from the heat and explore the best of the treasures of the
History of Medicine Collections. You will travel back in history and around the world, as you enjoy the delicate ivory figures, grimace at the bizarre drawings of the Bartisch text, and marvel at the hidden secrets of the apparently unique copper engravings known as
The Four Seasons, which are highlighted in the article, "Cycling the Cosmos" (June 3rd issue of
Nature). Maybe you will even learn some new words with which to impress your friends (What is an écorché?).
A special exhibit will be on display until late July. Most of this exhibit will be available for viewing in the lobby cases on the lower level of the Library during Library hours. For the most complete experience, be sure to visit the History of Medicine Collections, Monday - Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
May 7, 1999
Provides access to a variety of databases and services of interest to researchers, including the COS
Funding Opportunities database (available research grants and other types of awards), COS
Expertise database, COS
Funding Alert service, COS
Funding News updates,
Funded Research database (active research projects funded by NIH, NSF, SBIR, USDA, and MRC-UK),
U.S. Patents database (since 1975),
Commerce Business Daily, and
Federal Register.
Please note: Use of this service is restricted to Duke IP addresses. No username and password are required for database searching. Some of the databases offered by COS, including Ei Compendex, GeoRef, and MEDLINE, are NOT available to Duke users from the COS site, but are accessible from this page by clicking on the database name.
April 20, 1999
This database is a guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from newspapers, periodicals, newsletters, and government documents. Coverage is from 1984 to present.
Please note: Use of this database is restricted to Duke IP addresses.
April 15, 1999
Web of Science Backfiles Available
The
ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science) are now available for searching back to 1988. Through its unique and powerful combination of citation indexing and Web technology, the ISI Citation Databases allow current and retrospective searching of quality, peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references.
Please note: Use of this database is restricted to Duke IP addresses.
On Display in February and March, 1999
In celebration of Black History Month, the Medical Center Library will display an exhibit entitled, "
Black History Month: A Medical Perspective." In conjunction with the exhibit, the Library will also be hosting in the History of Medicine (Room 102) two guest speakers from Duke Medical Center.
Dr Brenda Armstrong, Associate Dean, Director of Admissions, will speak on
February 5th at 1:00 pm, and
Dr. Charles Johnson, Professor Emeritus, Division of Endocrinology, on
February 26th at 3:00 pm. The exhibit will be on display on the lower level of the Library during the months of February and March. You may also take a
virtual tour of the exhibit at any time.
January 20, 1999
Integrated Medicine Database
Alt-HealthWatch provides full text of periodicals, peer-reviewed journals, academic and professional publications, magazines, consumer newsletters and newspapers, research reports, and association newsletters focusing on alternative and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Includes professional and consumer level coverage of more than two hundred therapies, modalities and perspectives addressed by integrated medicine.
Please note: Use of this database is restricted to Duke IP addresses.
