Our rare book collections hold several editions of Ambroise Paré’s surgical works. This is not unusual. Paré (1510-1590) is one of the most famous early modern surgeons, and his writings were very popular during that time period. While he published short treatises on distinct subjects beginning in 1545, the large folio editions of his collected [Read more]
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This article continues the Becker Brief of March 17, 2016 on the events surrounding the 1931 kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Kelley, a St. Louis area physician. During the trials of his kidnappers three years later, a St. Louis socialite was implicated in the plot to abduct Dr. Kelley. Her trail for the kidnapping was followed by accusations of illegal baby purchasing and blackmail.
A Field Application Scientist from Partek will lead a full day training workshop on March 31, 2016, at WUSM in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Room 602, focused on Microarray and NGS data analysis in Partek® Genomics Suite with Pathway.
April 20, 1931, a night which would eventually set into motion a kidnapping, a murder, the theft of a baby, and multiple trials, was appropriately dark and stormy.
March is Women’s History Month! Here in Archives and Rare Books, we’re going to celebrate by highlighting some of the remarkable women represented in our collections.
The new Medical Education Resource Guide is a convenient place to find medical education resources from Becker Medical Library.
The new ClinicalKey app is now available (Android and Apple) and makes accessing ClinicalKey content even easier for mobile device users.
Alisha Rankin, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Tufts University, will be the guest speaker for the 50th Historia Medica lecture on Thursday, March 10. Dr. Rankin will present, “Poison Trials: Testing Antidotes in Early Modern Europe.”
December 1, 1981
Eli Robins, M.D. Department of Psychiatry
Dear Doctor Robins: