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Summer Reading from the Hopkins History of Medicine Department

Summer Reading from the Hopkins History of Medicine Department

May 29, 2019

Ask anyone in the Johns Hopkins history of medicine department and they will tell you that summer is the time to catch up on all the reading they can’t do during the semester. Some of us have found our favorite books in the summer. Need a jump-start on your own reading? Check out these titles […]

Kristin Brig ⋅ A Day in the Life books, library, reading ⋅

Kristin's cubbie in Welch LIbrary

Medicine in the Library

March 5, 2019

Above: Kristin's carrel at Welch Library Mid-November 2018: I sit in my carrel watching the snow fall outside, a café au lait cupped in my hands and my elbows resting on the wooden barrier that protects me from falling eight floors to the bottom of the library. Historian Julie Livingstone’s book on debility and the […]

Kristin Brig ⋅ A Day in the Life History of medicine, library, welch library ⋅

kids learning in a library with their teacher

Stop and Smell the Pages

June 13, 2017

As a child, my mother would take my siblings and me to the local public library. I would check out so many books that the librarians would often ask if I was sure I could read them all. I met their challenge, however, to the point where I would sometimes get in trouble at school […]

Rabia Karani ⋅ A Day in the Life library, studying ⋅

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