National Physicians Week 2024

Celebrate physicians and students in the medical field this week! Click here to learn more about National Physicians Week & download some free pics to help you celebrate.

The BSC Library is celebrating with a Books & Brew

@ the Wellbean 9 am – 12 pm 3/26/2024!

5 books to read this week

The Doctor was a Woman : Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier

Chris Enss

Read about 10 amazing female physicians of the Old West!

Eureka! : 50 Scientists who shaped human history

John Grant

Grant paints 50 vivid portraits of groundbreaking scientists, including their ideas, breakthroughs, lives, and various quirks.

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women — and Women to Medicine

Janice P. Nimura

The Blackwell sisters were two tenacious, visionary and complicated pioneers who broke the limits of what was possible for women in medicine.

The Mold in Dr. Florey’s Coat: the Story of the Penicillin Miracle

Eric Lax

“Admirable, superbly researched … perhaps the most exciting tale of science since the apple dropped on Newton’s head.”–Simon Winchester, The New York Times.

One blood : the death and resurrection of Charles R. Drew

Spencie Love

Trace the life of the famous black scientist and surgeon who became known both as the father of the blood bank and by his death.

eBook of the Week

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Take a literary walk with botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer in the book Braiding Sweetgrass, as Kimmerer notes the relationships we humans share with other living beings around us, and how we can learn from our relationship with the natural world when we acknowledge and celebrate the connection.