Art, however, is not produced by fiat or prescription; it grows naturally out of the humus of man’s common psyche. It is for this reason that one may view the widespread return to the depiction of human form and of the human environment as a sign of a growing affirmation, adjustment, and self-confidence. –Alvin Gittins […]
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Andries van Wesel, the second son of an apothecary in service to the Holy Roman Emperor was born in the Flemish city of Brussels the last day of December 1514. Posterity remembers him by his Latinized name, Andreas Vesalius, the author of the Renaissance masterpiece De humani corporis fabrica. The book, published the same year […]
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At the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, each school in the health sciences has representation, thanks to Digital Publishing. Items in the collections for the College of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, and the School of Medicine now feature refined metadata to improve findability, with outdated media formats updated to support long-term preservation. Additionally, […]
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Tallie Casucci, Associate Librarian at J. Willard Marriott Library, utilized a list from Doody’s Core Titles to purchase an additional 25 books about Dementia. The titles are available across University of Utah Libraries. Readers of these books range from patients to health professionals to family members. Materials can be delivered on campus and to homes […]
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Since 2023, the Eccles Health Sciences Library has employed 3 University of Utah Department of History students to assist Elaine Thornton, Assistant Director for the History of Health Sciences, with historical projects and research. One student, Emma Webb, researched the history of the Jarvik heart and the first artificial heart transplant. Emma also graduated from the University and […]
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World – Steven Johnson | Nonfiction In this historical nonfiction book, Steven Johnson tells the terrifying story of the cholera epidemic of London in 1854. Two unlikely heroes, anesthetist Doctor John Snow and Reverend Henry […]
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Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Jahneman | Psychology, Nonfiction A bestseller in 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow explores the two systems of the mind and how they determine the ways we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive and emotional, while System 2 is slow, deliberate, and logical. Kahneman engages readers in a lively conversation […]
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After looking through the 100 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century, we discovered that the Eccles Health Sciences Library hosts 3 of them in the Casual Reading Collection. Heavy – Kiese Laymon | Memoir “An American Memoir.” A compelling collection of genre-bending essays about Kiese Laymon’s upbringing in Jackson, Mississippi, with early […]
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice – Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | Nonfiction In a collection of essays, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha examines the politics within disability justice; a movement that considers the lives of disabled queer, trans, Black and brown people. Their essays celebrate the work that sick and disabled people are doing to find each other […]
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To Paradise – Hanya Yanagihara | Fiction This ambitious novel is split into three parts, imagining alternate versions of America in 1893, 1993, and 2093. In 1893, 27 year old David is from the family that founded the “Free States,” where same-sex marriage is permitted but Black people are denied citizenship. In 1993, Manhattan is […]
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