HSL Monthly Book Displays

Explore the actively growing and vibrant collections at the Health Sciences Library by visiting our monthly book display. The display sits on top of our reference shelf and features many of our newest acquisitions while following a theme. Enjoy this feature of this month’s book display!

April 2025: New Releases

The jellyfish
Odette is a twenty-something year old with their own place, a steady job at a local bookstore, an adorable pet rabbit, and a budding crush on one of their customers. But Odette is haunted by something only they can see: a jellyfish that’s floating in their eye, blocking their vision. It’s a seemingly minor annoyance…until the jellyfish starts multiplying.

Fighting for control power, reproductive care, and race in the US-Mexico borderlands
Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Lina-Maria Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their communities. Murillo lays bare Mexican-origin women’s long battle for human dignity and power in the borderlands as reproductive freedom in Texas once again hangs in the balance.

Job readiness for health professionals : soft skills strategies for success
A guide to personal behaviors, Job Readiness for Health Professionals, 4th Edition covers 48 different soft skills, including effective communication, collaborating with colleagues, time management, and searching for and applying for jobs.

Health equity : African Americans and public health
This book aims to advance health equity by providing a critical examination of selected factors that create, perpetuate, and exacerbate imbalances concerning unique experiences of African Americans in the United States.

Booster shots : the urgent lessons of measles and the uncertain future of children’s health
A pediatrician and infectious disease specialist warns of the resurgence of measles, the anti-vax movement, and how we can prepare for the next pandemic.

Cosmetic procedures in skin of color
Offering a step-by-step, practical approach to increasingly requested cosmetic procedures, Cosmetic Procedures in Skin of Color provides practical insights into safe and effective approaches to cosmetic procedures in skin of color that can be performed by dermatologists. 

Change is possible : reflections on the history of global health
This work describes the history of global health as a story of evolution, with some changes fading for lack of advantage and other changes advancing the field to provide more power or efficiency.

Intersectionality in health education
This book reflects on where we are in health education from an intersectionality mindset through 10 case studies that give examples of how to recognize and begin to understand the distinct experiences of Black youth.