Mortars and Pestles Exhibit in Library

Various Mortars and Pestles from Library collection
To kick off the new year we are bringing back our collection of mortars and pestles, which were donated by Robert I. Kramer, M.D. in 1995. For over two decades they were displayed in the library as a permanent exhibit, though in recent years they have been on rotation with only a small selection making an appearance at a time. Some of them you may recognize, while others might be wholly new. Dr. Kramer collected these pieces on his travels across the globe, ranging from the far east to the Americas and covering centuries of history. This wider set will be on display until the summer, so be sure to stop by to view them before their regular rotation begins again.

Various Mortars and Pestles from Library collection

New Emerald Ebooks

The Library has recently acquired 25 new ebooks from Emerald Publishing. The titles cover a variety of topics including healthcare management, social justice, ethics, artificial intelligence, and mental health.

Title

Description

“Purpose-Built” Art in Hospitals: Art with Intent (Emerald Insight)

Explores the use of commissioned artwork in hospitals through the dual lens of an artist and healthcare professional, identifying 15 distinct “purposes” of art in hospitals and arguing for the need for greater variety in art offerings that serve the diverse needs of patients, families, visitors, and hospital staff.

Academic Research, Publishing and Writing: Critical Thinking and Strategies for Business Scholars (Emerald Insight)

Designed for all scholars of business and management. this book outlines practical and proven ways of designing, developing, and executing impactful research and writing projects with a view to eventual publication.

Addressing Underserved Populations in Autism Spectrum Research: An Intersectional Approach (Emerald Insight)

Highlights five areas of autism spectrum research that currently lack a substantial body of literature: autistic seniors, autistic women, fathers raising autistic children, autistics with intellectual disabilities, and autistics from ethnic minorities.

Advances in Disability Research Ethics, Vol. 11 (Emerald Insight)

Examines processes of disablement and the specificities which arise when researching the lives of people with physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments. Explores topics such as ensuring quality in data, the importance of defining terms, ethical inclusion, use and misuse of the term vulnerability, the intersection of race and ethnicity, the role of ethics committees and other approval processes and maximizing research impact.

Artificial Intelligence: Why and How It Is Revolutionizing Healthcare Management (Emerald Insight)

Identifies a roadmap for the appropriate introduction of artificial intelligence in healthcare organizations that responds to the need of decision-makers and managers to have a clear picture of how to move in the developing field of AI.

Body Art (Emerald Insight)

Discusses an alternative perspective that presents body art as an underappreciated yet accessible source for mental and physical wellbeing.

Building and Improving Health Literacy in the “New Normal” of Health Care: Frameworks and Actions (Emerald Insight)

Identifies desirable paths of action to improve health literacy amongst patients, focusing on new technologies that could facilitate reducing health disparities. This book is an essential read for policymakers and health care managers.

Developing and Engaging Clinical Leaders in the “New Normal” of Hospitals: Why It Matters, How To Do It (Emerald Insight)

Provides a systematic review of previous literature about the increasingly worrying challenge in transforming doctors to clinical leaders and offers a qualitative analysis of different countries facing the issue of training this hybrid role.

Different Diagnoses, Similar Experiences: Narratives of Mental Health, Addiction Recovery and Dual Diagnosis (Emerald Insight)

Gathers narratives of mental health, addiction, and dual diagnoses into one publication and critically examines the differences and similarities of these experiences.

Dismantling White Supremacy in Counseling (Emerald Insight)

There is relatively little written for White therapists about how they and their White clients can dismantle White supremacy. Drawing attention to this issue, and building support among White practitioners, Jason Brown aims to dismantle White supremacy in professional activities with clients, in the profession itself, and in public policy.

Ethical AI Surveillance in the Workplace, Vol. 10 (Emerald Insight)

Discusses the structural challenges associated with “wiring the labour market”, including issues of control, autonomy, and voice. From Data Protection Impact Assessments to regulatory sandboxes, and from establishing the right to disconnect to setting up a Code of Ethical Workplace Monitoring, the proposed paths aim to safeguard a responsible deployment of AI-powered monitoring tools within the workplace and protect employees as data subjects whose digital footprints are under constant scrutiny.

Ethics and Integrity in Research with Children and Young People (Emerald Insight)

Offers an applied perspective to navigating contemporary and complicated ethical issues that can arise in the field of childhood and youth-centered research. The volume moves beyond a focus on standard, procedural research ethics processes and principles to expose some of the situated ethical moments that researchers grapple with in everyday research practice.

Ethics and Integrity in Research with Older People and Service Users: Moving Beyond the Rhetoric (Emerald Insight)

Addresses issues relating to research ethics and integrity when undertaking social research with older people and service users. Includes contributions on various topics (e.g., dementia, family carers, safeguarding, and mental health) with the common goal of producing high-quality, relevant research.

Health Management 2.0 Transformational Leadership for Challenging Times (Emerald Insight)

Promotes a modern interdisciplinary and dynamic approach to health leadership and management and outlines international best practice for future teaching and training.

How To Deliver Integrated Care: A Guidebook for Managers (Emerald Insight)

Introduces service planners and managers to successful strategies to design, implement, and manage care integration programs. It details the various components of change in individual chapters, which are illustrated with practical examples from actual care implementation projects.

Living Life to the Fullest: Disability, Youth and Voice (Emerald Insight)

Offers new understandings of the lives, hopes, and desires of children and young people with “life-limiting” or “life-threatening” impairments. Aimed at undergraduate students, this book contributes to contemporary political and theoretical debates about the human in an age of global precarity and austerity.

Mental Health Literacy and Young People (Emerald Insight)

Provides an accessible, lively, and creative entry point to mental health literacy and young people at a time of unprecedented challenges.

Occupational Therapy with Older People into the Twenty-First Century (Emerald Insight)

Explores the realities of later life, ageing in place, the implication of the technological age, meeting needs for rehabilitation, revisiting and valuing the core principles of occupational therapy, and more.

The Online Healthcare Community: Pioneering Inclusive Healthcare Support in Developing Countries (Emerald Insight)

Explores the shift to virtual healthcare emphasizing OHC’s engagement, expertise sharing, and capacity for industry transformation, especially across tech-driven nations such as India.

Peer Support Work: Practice, Training & Implementation (Emerald Insight)

Highlights the experiences of contributors who work or study social care and have lived experience with mental health, substance use, homelessness, criminal justice, and migration.

Reframing Qualitative Research Ethics, Vol. 12 (Emerald Insight)

Explores contemporary challenges in qualitative research ethics and generates proposals for reforming ethics review based on researchers’ experience on the ground to support innovative qualitative research in the future.

Research and Theory to Foster Change in the Face of Grand Health Care Challenges (Emerald Insight)

Focuses on environmental uncertainty and the responsiveness of health care organizations, as well as the mechanisms of change and how leaders within organizations frame and execute change. In addition, this book investigates organizational preparedness and response in the face of acute crisis.

Social Justice Case Studies: Interdisciplinary and Non-Traditional Interdisciplinary Approaches (Emerald Insight)

Provides individuals interested in social justice the ability to discuss and engage in interdisciplinary and non-traditional interdisciplinary team processes.

Technology-Enhanced Healthcare Education: Transformative Learning for Patient-Centric Health (Emerald Insight)

Promotes the best practices and lessons learned from COVID-19 and highlights the importance and impact of using information systems to increase levels of health literacy.

The Ultimate Guide to Compact Cases: Case Research, Writing, and Teaching (Emerald Insight)

Filled with annotated examples, checklists, and writing prompts, this practical guide takes readers through the research, writing, and teaching of short “Compact Cases”. Tips are offered for managing student case writing projects, teaching with cases online, using data visualization to enhance student learning, and getting cases published.

Elsevier Article Billing Reminder

Starting January 1, 2026 and moving forward, any full text article published in a journal title by Elsevier that the library borrows from another institution on your behalf and is no longer available in our catalog will be eligible for request through interlibrary loan free of charge. You will still be charged for items published in journals by Elsevier that are in our catalog and requested through Document Delivery. If you have any questions, please email LibADS@UTSouthwestern.edu.

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