Featured Book - This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine

The featured book from the current New Books List is This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine, edited by Eliza Jo Chin.

Eliza Jo Chin, MD (Harvard Medical School) has brought together about 100 stories, poems, essays, and quotations that speak to the joys and trials of being a woman in the field of medicine. Beginning with the writings of early medical pioneers, the anthology reveals how women have coped with the demands of a medical career in addition to being wives, mothers, and community leaders.
-Booknews.com

WZ 305 T349 2002
This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine/
edited by Eliza Jo Chin
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002

Featured books for July

There are two featured books this month: Aschraft's Pediatric Surgery and The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease. Dr. Samuel D. Smith, Arkansas Children's Hospital Surgery Department was a contributor to Ascraft's Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Suzanne V. Klimberg, Director of Breast Surgical Oncology, was a contributor to The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease.


Acclaimed for its unsurpassed readability ad manageable scope, Aschraft's Pediatric Surgery presents authoratative, practical guidance on treating the entire range of surgical problems in infants, children, and adolescents. The new 5th edition continues this excellent legacy with its thoroughly updated coverage of today's hot topics including the increased use of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for pediatric patients, urology, bariatric surgery in adolescents, and evidence-based treatments and outcomes in children.
-From Barnes and Noble



WO 925 P3472 2010
Aschraft's Pediatric Surgery/edited by George W. Holcomb III and J. Patrick Murphy
Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2010



The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease, 4th edition, by Kirby I. Bland, MD, and Edward M. Copeland, III, MD, is a surgical reference that offers the comprehensive, up-to-date resource on the diagnosis and management of, and rehabilitation following, surgery for benign and malignant diseases of the breast.
-Barnes and Noble




WP 900 B740 2009, v.1 & 2
The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Disease/by Kirby I. Bland and Edwards M. Copeland
Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier, 2009

eJournal access page service interruption, Fri. July 16...

Access to ejournals via the eJournals page at the library site may be interrupted Friday July 16, 4 p.m. until 10 p.m.. **You can still access journals via the library catalog.** However, links to ejournals from databases such as PubMed may be unavailable. The interruption should only be brief periods.

Ulrich'sweb is very likely to be unavailable during this time period.

Server Update - Sunday, July 18

A server update is scheduled for Sunday, July 18th from 7:00 to 10:00 AM. Some online library services will be unavailable during this time.

Some ejournals not available Saturday, June 19

Wiley-Blackwell is doing system maintenance starting at 7:00 a.m. (CDT) and lasting up to five hours (noon).

Featured Book - Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions

The featured book from the current Library New Books List is Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions: Advocacy and Action, edited by Donna Middaugh, Associate Dean, UAMS College of Nursing, Donna M. Nickitas and Nancy Aries.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and health care providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics.

This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how health care professionals can get involved an be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients.

Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a toolkit that includes a "skills" section of how-tos.
- From Barnes and Noble

WA 540 AA1 P758 2011
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions/edited by Donna Middaugh, Donna Nickitas, and Nancy Aries
Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2011

E-Reserves/Docutek Unavailable Wednesday, June 2

Due to a scheduled server migration, E-Reserves/Docutek will be unavailable Wednesday, June 2.