Proving the proverbial gadfly: situating the historical and racial context of Southern medical works by Mary Louise Marshall

Aidy Weeks

doi:10.5195/jmla.2021.1261

Proving the proverbial gadfly: situating the historical and racial context of Southern medical works by Mary Louise Marshall

Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA ◽

10.5195/jmla.2021.1261 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 109 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Aidy Weeks

Keyword(s):

Health Sciences ◽

People Of Color ◽

Medical Library ◽

Racial Context ◽

The Future

Health sciences librarianship has historically benefited from avoiding critical conversations around the role of race in the profession, reflected through a select few number of articles on the topic. The purpose of this study was to add to this body of literature and apply a critical librarianship framework on the early scholarly record of health sciences librarianship and the legacy of integration within the Medical Library Association (MLA). Three Southern medical works and the integration views of Mary Louise Marshall, the longest-serving president of MLA from 1941 to 1946, were thematically and textually analyzed to redress the profession’s long-standing legacy with Whiteness and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) representation. In reframing the historic past of MLA both through Marshall’s works and her views, the goal is to acknowledge ways in which the profession has impeded progress and present steps to remedy appropriate outreach for the future.

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The tenth Janet Doe Lecture, a forty-year perspective: still relevant after all these years

Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA ◽

10.5195/jmla.2020.864 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 108 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Wayne J. Peay ◽

Helen-Ann Brown Epstein

Keyword(s):

Historical Perspective ◽

Health Sciences ◽

The State ◽

Academic Health ◽

Current Health ◽

Medical Library ◽

The Future ◽

Role Of Women ◽

Distinguished Member

Erich Meyerhoff was an academic health sciences librarian and a distinguished member of the Medical Library Association when he was invited to present the Janet Doe Lecture in 1977. His lecture on the state of the association is considered one of the finest Doe lectures and is still relevant more than forty years later, not only from an historical perspective, but also for his projections for the future and his prescient comments about the future of hospital librarianship and the important role of women in the association. Key 1977 Doe lecture topics are reviewed and updated in the context of the current health sciences library environment.

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The Experience of VaccinarSinToscana Website and the Role of New Media in Promoting Vaccination

Vaccines ◽

10.3390/vaccines8040644 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 644

Author(s):

Sara Boccalini ◽

Paolo Bonanni ◽

Fabrizio Chiesi ◽

Giulia Di Pisa ◽

Federica Furlan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

General Population ◽

New Media ◽

Local Level ◽

Health Sciences ◽

Web Pages ◽

Department Of Health ◽

The Future ◽

University Of Florence

The Department of Health Sciences (University of Florence) developed a regional website “VaccinarSinToscana” in order to provide information on vaccines and communicate with the general population, as well as the healthcare community, at a regional and local level. The aim of this paper is to present the VaccinarSinToscana website framework and analyze the three-year activity of the website and the related social network account on Facebook in terms of dissemination and visibility. In the first three years since its launch, the VaccinarSinToscana portal has increased its visibility: the number of single users, visits and single web pages has grown exponentially. Our results also demonstrate how the Facebook account launch contributed enormously to the increase in the visibility of the website. The objective for the future of the VaccinarSinToscana portal is to grow further, in order to reach out to an even wider audience.

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Challenges of Fear Conditioning Research in the Age of RDoC

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000303 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 225 (3) ◽

pp. 189-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Tina B. Lonsdorf ◽

Jan Richter

Keyword(s):

Fear Conditioning ◽

Clinical Diagnosis ◽

Research Domain Criteria ◽

Major Focus ◽

The Future ◽

Definition Of ◽

Methodological Considerations ◽

Research Domain

Abstract. As the criticism of the definition of the phenotype (i.e., clinical diagnosis) represents the major focus of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative, it is somewhat surprising that discussions have not yet focused more on specific conceptual and procedural considerations of the suggested RDoC constructs, sub-constructs, and associated paradigms. We argue that we need more precise thinking as well as a conceptual and methodological discussion of RDoC domains and constructs, their interrelationships as well as their experimental operationalization and nomenclature. The present work is intended to start such a debate using fear conditioning as an example. Thereby, we aim to provide thought-provoking impulses on the role of fear conditioning in the age of RDoC as well as conceptual and methodological considerations and suggestions to guide RDoC-based fear conditioning research in the future.

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