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Hispanic Heritage Month
Hispanic Heritage Month at HSL
UVA HSL celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month September 15 to October 15!
In celebration and acknowledgement of the struggles and victories of the Hispanic community, the Health Sciences Library offers this collections of newly purchased books. They can be found on display in the lobby and are available for checkout. Visit our display of materials from our Historical Collections archive in the lobby as well.
Print Books
Building Confianza: Empowering Latinos/as Through Transcultural Health Care Communication by Call Number: P302.7.M34 2021ISBN: 9780814258095Publication Date: 2021
Caring for and Understanding Latinx Patients in Health Care Settings by Call Number: RA448.5.H57 P54 2020ISBN: 9781785928093Publication Date: 2020
Disability, Intersectional Agency, and Latinx Identity: Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories by Call Number: HV1559.L38 P33 2022ISBN: 9780367540395Publication Date: 2022
Duty Calls: Lessons Learned From an Unexpected Life of Service by Call Number: R154.N82 A3 2024ISBN: 9781682754467Publication Date: 2024
Mental Health for Hispanic Communities: A Guide for Practitioners by Call Number: RC451.5.H57 M46 2022ISBN: 9783031131974Publication Date: 2022
New and Emerging Issues in Latinx Health by Call Number: RA448.5.H57 N48 2020ISBN: 9783030240424Publication Date: 2020
The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Call Number: RC552.P67 G88 2022ISBN: 9781684039319Publication Date: 2022
Radical Health: Unwellness, Care, and Latinx Expressive Culture by Call Number: RA778.4.H57 M56 2023ISBN: 9781478025252Publication Date: 2023
Spanish in Health Care: Policy, Practice and Pedagogy in Latino Health by Call Number: R118.M3745 2022ISBN: 9781032400037Publication Date: 2022
Historical Collections
Martínez, Martín. Anatomia Completa del Hombre: Con Todos los Hallazgos, Nuevas Doctrinas, y Observaciones Raras, y Muchas Advertencias Necessarias Para la Cirugia, Segun el Methodo Con Que la Explicaba En Nuestro Theatro de Madrid. Madrid: Joseph de Orga, 1757.
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3622240
Archivos de Pediatria del Uruguay, 1969.
Jose Strauss papers, MS-84.
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories/7/archival_objects/216052
Campaña Sanataria Contra Le Fiebre Amarilla, 1921.
Henry Hanson Papers MS-52.
The Commission on Infectious Diseases in Mariel, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 1901.
Philip Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, MS-1.
https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-hs/viuh00010.xml
Velasco, Diego and Francisco Villaverde. Curso Theoricopractico de Operaciones de Cirugia: En Que Se Contienen los Mes Celebres Descubrimientos Modernos: Compuesto Para el Uso de los Reales Colegios. Barcelona:Raymundo Martí. 1763.
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3623834
La Inmunidad De La Fiebre Amarilla, c. 1980s.
Henry Rose Carter Papers MS-10.
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories/uva-hs/resources/henry_rose_carter_papers
Letter from Wenceslao Pareja to Henry Rose Carter, 1922.
Philip Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, MS-1.
https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-hs/viuh00010.xml
Photograph of the Royal Palms, Havana, Cuba, 1899.
Philip Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection, MS-1.
https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-hs/viuh00010.xml
Postcard from J. Eduardo Riveia to Henry Hanson, 1922.
Henry Hanson Papers MS-52.
https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/repositories/uva-hs/archival_objects/invitations_and_postcards
Canivell, Franciso. Tratado de Vendages, y Apositos Para el Uso de los Reales Colegios de Cirugia: En Que Se Maifestan Los Apositos Necessarios à Cada Operacion. Barcelona: Teresa Piferrer, 1763.
https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3654272
Additional Resources
Funk, C., & Lopez, M.H.(2022) Hispanic Americans’ experiences with health care. Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2022/06/14/hispanic-americans-experiences-with-health-care/
- MedlinePlus - SpanishAn online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. Offers information on health topics, human genetics, medical tests, medications, dietary supplements, and healthy recipes, in both English and Spanish. MedlinePlus It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, and a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- VisualDXA clinical decision support tool intended for use by medical practitioners to assist them in differential diagnosis. VisualDx provides handout material for nearly 400 of its top diagnoses in both English and Spanish. The information, written specifically for the patient, can be either emailed or printed right at the point of care.