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Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields:August 2024

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Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.

This month’s featured article, “Harnessing cellular therapeutics for type 1 diabetes mellitus: progress, challenges, and the road ahead “was co-authored by Dr. Haval Shirwan of the Department of Pediatrics. The article was published in Nature Reviews Endocrinology (impact factor of 31.0 in 2023).

Note that Dr. James Stevermer also had a publication in JAMA as a member of the USPSTF: “Screening and Supplementation for Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anemia During Pregnancy: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement”

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=August&Year=2024

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New Book Highlight- Environmental Alteration Leads to Human Disease: a Planetary Health Approach

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We’ve recently added Environmental Alteration Leads to Human Disease: a Planetary Health Approach to our online collection.

This book aims to explore the impact of human alterations of Earth’s ecological systems on human health. Human activities are producing fundamental biophysical changes faster than ever before in the history of our species, which are accompanied by dangerous health effects.

Drawing on advanced ecological principles, the book demonstrates the importance of using systemic medicine to study the effects of ecological alterations on human health.

This book is a great resource for anyone beginning to work on their dissertation or grant proposal as well as those who are interested in brushing up on their writing skills.

You can access the book online.

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Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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Peer Navigator Corner: Health Sciences Library

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Written by: Sophie Lanzone

You may be aware, but there are several other libraries at Mizzou besides Ellis Library, including the Health Science Library. As a Health Science major, I think it’s a wonderful thing that there is a specific library with a focus on my area, but I didn’t know it existed until after my first year of college.

The Health Sciences Library (HSL) opened in 1985 and was named after Dr. J. Otto Lottes, who was an orthopedic surgeon from St. Louis and an alumnus of Mizzou. This library is a resource available to all Mizzou students, faculty, and staff. However, the materials focus on supporting the School of Medicine, Sinclair School of Nursing, School of Health Professions, Health Management and Informatics, and MU Health Care.

The library offers many research tools such as books, articles, and databases, and offers research support through workshops. It is designed to help students find certain resources that pertain to medicine or healthcare. Similarly to Ellis, there are plenty of rooms to study, printers and scanners, computers, and electronic devices, in addition to document loan and delivery services. HSL also offers research tools such as self-paced EBM tutorials, mobile medical apps to help with studying, and specific resources for med and nursing students that Ellis does not.

Unfortunately, the Health Science Library is temporarily closed for renovation, but you can still get help and resources from it! Librarians and staff are working remotely, and there is a chat box you can use to talk with them. Libraries chat services are available 24/7, but Health Sciences Librarians can specifically be reached Monday-Friday from 9am to 4pm. You can also book a consultation with a librarian for resource help both online through Zoom and in-person. If you need any books from HSL, they will be sent to 24/7 pickup lockers either across the courtyard in the Medical Sciences Building or in Ellis Library.

More information about the Health Sciences Library can be found on their webpage, including links to different services as well as directions and maps to navigate around the library. You can also find pictures of progress of the renovations, and hopefully it will open again shortly!

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Books to Celebrate Disability Culture Month at Mizzou

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Books to Celebrate Disability Culture Month at Mizzou

Mizzou began a tradition of celebrating Disability Culture Month, formerly Celebrate Ability Week, every September! Learn about Mizzou events happening the month of September to celebrate Disability Culture Month.

Below are a few we have available for check out. You can view the whole list of recommendations here.

Have a purchase recommendation? Use our book recommendation form

 

Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann’s lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy’s struggle for equality began early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a “fire hazard” to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher’s license because of her paralysis, Judy’s actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people.

 

 

 

 

Blackness and disability : critical examinations and cultural interventions by Christopher Bell

“Disability Studies diverge from the medical model of disability (which argues that disabled subjects can and should be “fixed”) to view disability as socially constructed, much in the same way other identities are. The work of reading black and disabled bodies is not only recovery work, but work that requires a willingness to deconstruct the systems that would keep those bodies in separate spheres. This pivotal volume uncovers the misrepresentations of black disabled bodies and demonstrates how those bodies transform systems and culture. Drawing on key themes in Disability Studies and African American Studies, these collected essays complement one another in interesting and dynamic ways, to forge connections across genres and chronotopes, an invitation to keep blackness and disability in conversation.

 

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.

 

Defying Disability : The Lives and Legacies of Nine Disabled Leaders by Mary Wilkinson

This book tells the stories of nine disabled leaders who, by force of personality and concrete achievement, have made us think differently about disability. Whatever direction they have come from, they share a common will to change society so that disabled people get a fair deal.

 

 

 

 

 

Demystifying Disability : What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Landau

People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about

 

 

 

 

Disfigured : on fairy tales, disability, and making space by Amanda Leduc

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.

 

 

 

 

Disability aesthetics by Tobin Siebers

Disability Aesthetics is the first attempt to theorize the representation of disability in modern art and visual culture. It claims that the modern in art is perceived as disability, and that disability is evolving into an aesthetic value in itself. It argues that the essential arguments at the heart of the American culture wars in the late twentieth century involved the rejection of disability both by targeting certain artworks as “sick” and by characterizing these artworks as representative of a sick culture

 

 

 

 

Women, Disability, and Culture by Anna Siri

Women and girls with disabilities find themselves constantly having to deal with multiple, intersectional discrimination due to both their gender and their disability, as well as social conditioning. Indeed, the intersection made up of factors such as race, ethnic origin, social background, cultural substrate, age, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, gender, disability, status as refugee or migrant and others besides, has a multiplying effect that increases discrimination yet further. The book seeks to pay the right attention to the condition of women with disabilities, offering points for reflection, also on the different, often invisible, cultural and social undertones that continue today to feed into prejudicial stereotypes.

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Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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New Book Highlight- Proposals That Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals

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We’ve recently added Proposals That Work : A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals to our online collection.

This book covers all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding. What makes this book great is that there are several proposal examples to help you visualize the end product of a proposal.

In the newest edition, the authors have included a discussion of the effects of new technologies and the Internet on the proposal process. There are new sections covering alternative forms of proposals and dissertations and the role of academic rigor in research.

This book is a great resource for anyone beginning to work on their dissertation or grant proposal as well as those who are interested in brushing up on their writing skills.

You can access the book online.

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Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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Finding Easy-to-Understand Health Information

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Finding accurate and easy to understand information is important and sometimes hard to find with all the information that’s available on the internet.

We make it easy for you to find health information. We have a guide that links to both local and and nationwide resources. They help with finding healthcare providers in the mid-Missouri area to helping you understand various health topics in a way that makes sense.

Highlights from the guide include:

  • Understanding healthcare coverage
  • Health information in different languages
  • LGBTQ+ healthcare
  • Genetics

You can find more topics at libraryguides.missouri.edu/FindingHealthInformation

While we do not provide medical advice, we love to help you find information during your healthcare journey. We believe in the right of the patient to become educated and informed about their health.

Need more help? You can make an appointment with a librarian who can sit down with you to help find the best information for you. Whether you are at Mizzou or live in Mid-Missouri, we are here to help.

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New MU Authored Trending Article in PubMed

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A recently trending article in PubMed was Integrating molecular and cellular components of endothelial shear stress mechanotransduction authored by Drs. Power and Padilla from the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology and Drs. Ferreia-Santos and Martinez-Lemus from NextGen Precision Health.

What is a PubMed trending article?

Trending articles is a marker of increased interest in a PubMed abstract. Trending articles are those with a significant increase in daily PubMed views in the past two days as compared to the previous baseline period, which is approximately a week.

You can see the full list of trending articles here.

Interested in tracking the impact of your articles after they are published? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu to learn how we can help.

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Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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New Book Highlight- Surgery: Introductory Guide for Medical Students

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We’ve recently added Surgery: Introductory Guide for Medical Students to our online collection.

The concept of this book was to bring together those various pieces of information that a medical student needs to critically understand an operation, and present it in a unified, concise, efficient, and portable format. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on the use of key words, diagrams, and illustrations in order to enhance your ability to quickly absorb and retain the relevant information.

This book is a great resource for any medical students interested in surgery.

You can access the book online.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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Summer Reading Favorites from Mizzou Librarians

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We asked Mizzou Librarians to tell us what their favorite read of the summer was and asked them to explain why it was their favorite. They could:

  • Write a few sentences OR
  • Provide 3-5 descriptive words OR
  • What emojis would describe the book?

The books could be published in any year and any genre as long as they were available at Mizzou Libraries or in Mobius.

We know it’s hard to pick a favorite book, but we have some great selections to add to your tbr.

 

Heartstopper Vol. 3 by Alice Oseman

“The Heartstopper graphic novel series is A+. It’s about young love and finding yourself. My jaw hurt from smiling the entire time reading this,” -Taira M.

 

The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

“Truman Capote spills the tea on New York socialites,”- Diane

 

 

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

“A woman reinvents herself and her life by starting a bookshop in her beloved local community. A lovely, heartwarming read about identity, goals, dreams as well as finding community,” Stara H.

 

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

“Hopeful, a new way to think about loss and death,” – Megan

 

Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death Through the Paranormal by Adam Berry

“This is not a self-help book. It is Adam’s personal take on grief and dying from both a supernatural and psychological standpoint, peppered with stories and interviews from his career in the paranormal. You might find out you’re not crazy/it’s not just you after all.” – Mara, your morbidly curious librarian

 

A Pirate’s Life for Tea: a Cozy Fantasy with Ships Abound by Rebecca Thorne

“I just discovered the cozy fantasy subgenre, which this novel falls into. It also has many of my favorite things: tea, adventure, good people, and a little romance.” – Noel K.

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Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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Fall 2024 Health Sciences Textbooks Available Online or at Ellis Library

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Fall 2024 required and optional textbooks for classes are now available!

Pick your school/college, then your program, and finally the course. It’s as easy as that. Access textbook copies at the Health Sciences Library here.

Note: Paper copies will be available at Ellis Library for 24 hour checkout time during the Health Sciences Library Renovation. Any duplicate copies of textbooks are available and subject to regular check out times.

Some ebooks are limited to one viewer at a time, so please close your browser window when you are finished so that the book will be available to others.

Unfortunately, we don’t have all the books required for every class. If we don’t have your textbook, there are several avenues you can use to find a copy, which are all clearly labeled on each class page.

You can also recommend the Health Sciences Library purchase an online copy here. Please provide what course the textbook is for and the name of your instructor.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.