"Sleuthing and Science: Adventures in the Past and Future of Medicine"
By Dr. Jacalyn Duffin

In this era of Google and Wikipedia, tight acquisitions budgets, consortial purchasing and package licensing, Dr. Duffin's work causes us to pause and remember our role as stewards of unique collections. Dr. Duffin is a medical historian whose sleuthing has led her to libraries, archives, and special collections around the world. The discoveries she's made, the secrets she's unearthed! Her most recent book is on medical miracles, based on work she did at the Vatican archives and library. Heritage meets innovation in Dr. Duffin's online collaborative translation project Consilia of Paolo Zacchia, where volunteers translate the advice of the 17th century father of forensic medicine from Latin to English. Will unique collections be preserved, and how has digitization furthered Dr. Duffin's research and discovery?

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