Access to medical knowledge : libraries, digitization, and the public good /
Frances K. Groen.
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
- xv, 281 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.
Librarians and their values -- Librarians, values, and the public good -- The origin of medical librarianship -- Early days in the profession -- The emergence of the medical library in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1940 -- The war and after, 1940-1960 -- Gaining ground in medical libraries, 1960-1990 -- Medical libraries in the age of the Internet -- Digitization and the Internet: a revolutionary context -- Consumer and patient information: convergence on the Internet -- New approaches to clinical medical information -- Is there a better way? -- The economics of scientific and medical information -- Toward open access -- New solutions in access to medical information -- Controlling copyright: the necessary balance.
0810852721
Medical informatics--Moral and ethical aspects Medical libraries--Moral and ethical aspects Medical librarians--Moral and ethical aspects Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects Access to Information--ethics Libraries Medical--ethics History 19th Century History 20th Century Information Management--methods Internet Libraries Medical--history