Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.
Because the national accreditation board for our Nursing Department has in the past counted against our review if we had out-of-date editions of nursing texts on our shelves, we have chosen to exclude most of our nursing books from the retention list. However, we did keep on the list some titles related to the history of the profession.
Mowbray, Patricia. Florence Nightingale and the Viceroys: A Campaign for the Health of the Indian People. London: Haus, 2008.
Four years ago, on December 8, 2020, mass vaccinations began to combat the COVID-19 virus. Worldwide, millions of people died of COVID (https://tinyurl.com/5n8thkfs). Without the vaccine, millions more would have died (https://tinyurl.com/mr322jdd).
Sometimes a book is rare because, at the time it was written, its ideas were considered both wrong and marginal. One book for which WSU gets interlibrary loan requests from around the world is a book that was in on the ground floor of spreading fears about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. While I would not recommend you adopting the views promoted by this book, if you wanted to study the history of the anti-vaccine movement, this book should not be overlooked.
McBean, Eleanora. The Poisoned Needle: Supressed Facts about Vaccination. New ed., Health Research, 1974.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. Here is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.