Volume 30, Number 4
ISSN: 0887-3739
HEALTH
LINE
Newsletter of the Hospital Library Services Program Long Island Library Resources Council September/ October 2017
Hospit al Library Services Program (HLSP) 3rd Annual Conf erence December 1, 2017 St ony Brook Universit y
Thanks to the LILRC Health Sciences Committee Chair Mary Westermann and Jamie Saragossi from Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library, the HLSP 3rd Annual Conference will be held on the beautiful campus of Stony Brook University. This year?s keynote speaker is Nancy Tomes, Ph.D. and Professor of History of Stony Brook University. Her keynote will address ?Nuisance or Necessit y? Hist orical Perspect ives on t he ?Inf ormed? Pat ient .? Today it is widely accepted that patients need to be more actively engaged in their own treatment, but the extent to which they can and should participate in medical decision making is a matter of debate. In particular, the ?Medical Googler? who arrives at the doctor?s office with information acquired from the Internet may be greeted with suspicion. In this talk, Professor and Historian Nancy Tomes will put current debates over these ?e-patients? into historical perspective. Drawing from her book, Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (University of North Carolina Press, 2016), she will show that the fundamental issues involved in today?s debates over how patients use the Internet are by no means new. She will explore the long term factors that have generated patients?search for information and conclude with some reflections on what history can teach us about the present and future prospects for digital forms of patient engagement. Professor Nancy Tomes?research interests have ranged widely over the past four decades, but almost all her work has focused on the intersection between expert knowledge and popular understandings of the body and disease. Those interests are reflected in her previous publications: A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum Keeping (Cambridge, 1984; paperback, Penn, 1994), Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness Before 1914, with Lynn Gamwell (Cornell, 1995), The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe in American Life (Harvard, 1998); plus two co-edited collections, Medicine's Moving Pictures, with Leslie Reagan and Paula Treichler (Rochester, 2007), and Patients as Policy Actors, with Beatrix Hoffman, Rachel Grob, and Mark Schlesinger (Rutgers, 2011); and a website, "Medicine and Madison Avenue," on the history of health-related advertising, developed in collaboration with Duke University Library's Special Collections. -
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Free for HLSP Participants $25 for LILRC Members $35 for Nonmembers $20 for Retired Member/ Student/ Unemployed
Who is looking for interesting CEU hours? Join fellow librarians as speaker Lydia N. Collins (Consumer Health Coordinator for NNLM MAR) presents an overview of ideas to conduct health outreach and create health programs for libraries. Come learn how to integrate resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and other reputable agencies to introduce community members to NLM resources in fun and engaging ways.
Monday, Oct ober 23, 2017 at Farmingdal e Publ ic Library, 9:30am -12pm For more information on this LILRC/ NCLA co-sponsored event click the link below!
http:/ / www.lilrc.org/ event/ health-outreach-and-programming/
Oct ober is Heal t h Lit eracy Mont h The American Library Association (ALA) and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) have created a Health Literacy Month toolkit for the Libraries Transform campaign. Join Amanda J. Wilson (NNLM) and Jeff Julian (ALA) as they discuss NNLM?s mission to support health literacy efforts in libraries and explain how to use the key messages, data, and marketing materials to promote health literacy at your library. To register for this webinar (1 MLA CE is offered for this session), please visit: https:/ / nnlm.gov/ class/ libraries-transform-health-literacy-toolkit/ 7708.
Nat ional Heal t h Observances National Health Observances (NHOs) are special days, weeks, or months dedicated to raising awareness about important health topics. Each National Health Observance (NHO) presents an opportunity to educate the public, energize co-workers and community members, and promote healthy behaviors. You may use the NHO Toolkits available at https:/ / healthfinder.gov/ NHO/ to plan ahead and share important health messages, promote fun, interactive resources as well as organize events in your community. Each NHO Toolkit includes the information and tools you need to get started. Check it out!
Sept ember ? National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Sept ember ? Fruits & Veggies ? More Matters Month Oct ober ? National Breast Cancer Awareness Month November ? American Diabetes Month December ? World AIDS Day
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