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NLM Traveling Poster Exhibit: Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn!

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The field of graphic medicine is an emerging genre of medical literature combining the art of comics and personal illness narratives. The topic will be explored in the National Library of Medicine Travelling Poster Exhibit on display April 29–June 8 at the Library (E2.200) in the Florence Building. The banner exhibition and companion website, “Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived & Well-Drawn!,” was curated by artist, educator, and New York Times bestselling-author and artist Ellen Forney. 

Feeling creative? A coloring book with images taken from the rare Hebra’s Atlas of Skin Diseases will be available for download or pickup near the exhibit.

For more graphic medicine resources, visit the Library’s Medical Humanities Guide. 

From Cancer Vixen: A True Story, Marisa Acocella Marchetto, 2006
Courtesy Marisa Acocella Marchetto and Penguin Random House LLC

TexShare databases provide wide variety of resources

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In addition to its extensive medical/health sciences collection of journals, books and databases, UT Southwestern Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center participates in the TexShare Databases Program (coordinated by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission). These databases provide access to more than 27,000 journals and magazines, over 171,000 ebooks, and over 15 million images, videos, and interactive resources in both medical/health sciences and non-medical/health sciences disciplines, such as business, career resources, education, genealogy, general studies, law, general studies, and much more! To access, click on TexShare Databases under Popular Links on the Library’s home page.