Monthly Archives: May 2015

Opening hours w/b 1 June 2015

It’s nearly June! Next week, our opening hours will be:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 2.15pm-5pm
Wednesday: 2pm-4:30pm

Please contact us to make an appointment if you would like to come and visit the library.

Here’s Henry Wellcome enjoying a walk in the sunshine – we hope the weather is nice enough for you this weekend that you can do the same.

L0028629 Henry S. Wellcome and Mounteney Wellcome. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Henry S. Wellcome and Mounteney Wellcome. Holiday sports at The Mansion, Sunbridge Park, Kent. Summer 1913. Published:  -  Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

L0028629 Henry S. Wellcome and Mounteney Wellcome.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
http://wellcomeimages.org

HSMT Postgraduate Conference 2015

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
University of Oxford

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Postgraduate Conference 2015

Thursday, 11 June 2015, 09:30-17:30
Friday, 12 June 2015, 09:30-13:00

History Faculty Lecture Theatre, George Street, Oxford

Views on Science and Medicine

With panels on:

  • Public health initiatives: Changing perspectives of life and death
  • Disease, medicine, and society
  • Mental health in the 18th and 19th centuries
  • Medicine, authority, and agency: Challenging bodies/challenging discourses
  • Race and medicine
  • Scientific experience: People, places, and objects

Admission is free, but numbers are restricted.
Please register with belinda.michaelides@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk by 4 June.

Further information can be found here http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/events/unit-events.html

Postgrad conference poster

 

Opening hours w/b 25 March 2015

After today’s unexpected closure and the bank holiday on Monday, we hope to be back to normal from Tuesday! Our opening hours next week will be:

Monday: Closed for the bank holiday.
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 2.15pm-5pm
Wednesday: 2pm-4:30pm

As usual, please contact us to make an appointment if you would like to come to the library, and we will be glad to have you visit. In the meantime, we very much hope you have an enjoyable bank holiday weekend.

Library CLOSED this afternoon

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the library will not be open this afternoon – neither the Unit Secretary nor library staff will be present to allow readers access to the building. We are very sorry for the inconvenience, and advise readers to use the collections and study space available at the History Faculty Library and Radcliffe Science Library.

History Faculty Library: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history

Radcliffe Science Library: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science

Wellcome Unit library staff are still contactable via email if you have any questions: library@wuhmo.ox.ac.uk

News: RCS digitisation project for the UK Medical Heritage Library

Students and researchers of history of medicine may be interested to learn about a project to digitise almost 22,000 tracts and pamphlets from the library at the Royal College of Surgeons. These will become part of the UK Medical Heritage Library, a project bringing together books and pamphlets from 10 research libraries in the UK to form a digital collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century material on history of medicine and related disciplines. The digital library promotes free and open access to resources.

Digitisation work will be undertaken by a team at the Wellcome Library in London, and will make the RCS’s collection accessible globally. The pamphlets have a wide range of subject matters, and collectively provide valuable insight into developments in surgery, anatomy and disease over the duration of the century.

To read more about the project, visit the RCS website: http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library/blog/tracts-and-pamplets-digitising-for-the-uk-medical-heritage-library

Free public talk: The Multiple Evidential Roles of Clinical Case Reports

The Multiple Evidential Roles of Clinical Case Reports

Speaker: Professor Brian Hurwitz

17 June 2015
Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, UK
Register HERE for free tickets

Brian Hurwitz

 

 

 

 

Brian Hurwitz is D’Oyly Carte Professor of Medicine and the Arts in the Department of English.  He is a medical practitioner affiliated to the Division of Health and Social Care Research, King’s College London, directs the Centre for the Humanities and Health and is a member of the Steering Advisory Board of the Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s.

Collectively clinical case reports constitute a huge repository of medical experience. This talk will scrutinise their shape, salient features, and the nature of the hindsight from which they are composed, filtered for coherence, and turned into second order accountsof encounters, observations and reasoning about a patient or series of patients. It asks what case reports are good for and what kinds of knowledge they embody.

Full details and information on how to obtain free tickets for this event can be found at:

https://brian-hurwitz.eventbrite.co.uk

Power outage affecting services 15th-18th May

[reblog from the Bodleian History Faculty Library blog]

A scheduled power outage over the weekend will affect some library servers and services between 12pm on Friday 15th May and 12pm on Monday 18th May.

The list of services that will be affected for the duration of the outage includes:

Digitized books from the Oxford Google Books Project; Maps and Music digitized card catalogues; ORA; Imaging Services; BEAM; Electronic Enlightenment; BDLSS Blogs; Whats The Score; Serica (Early Chinese Books)

In addition, it will not be possible to use sunray computer terminals in the library.

Other resources/services may be affected but SOLO will not be affected.

Please speak to staff in the library if you need any assistance during this period.  We apologise for any inconvenience.

Opening hours w/b 4 May 2015

A very happy May Day to you! Next week, our opening hours will be:

Monday: Closed for the Bank Holiday.
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 2.15pm-5pm
Wednesday: 2pm-4:30pm

Please contact us to make an appointment if you would like to come and visit the library.

Have a lovely weekend.