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Four questions to Hanna Bös, E-Media Department of the Main Library What is the daily business of the Main Library’s E-media Department? We acquire all e-media for the UZH – i.e. electronic journals, databases and e-books. The E-media Department is not responsible for the selection of the titles. We are responsible for buying, licensing, administration […]

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When did you publish your first article? In which journal? I wrote my first article – as a first author – during my PhD at the Department of Neurology here in Zurich in 2005. The fist author of an article with several authors is the person who did the main part of the (laboratory) work. […]

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In February 1978, the Lancet published a report by Andreas Grüntzig on the successful operation of coronary arteries with balloon catheters. Although published in the category «Letters to the editor», this short text proved to be a key publication for his further career. Andreas Grüntzig had already come a long way. While he was employed […]

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  At the Burghölzli At the beginning of the 20th century, the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic was the scene of developments in psychiatry that were of worldwide importance. Eugen Bleuler was director of the Burghölzli and an open mind. He took up ideas of psychoanalysis early on and was in close contact with Sigmund Freud, whom […]

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  At the Cantonal hospital Theodor Billroth came to Zurich from Berlin in 1860 as a young surgeon. The medical faculty had taken considerable effort to appoint the ambitious student of the well-known Bernhard von Langenbeck. Billroth was only the second full professor of surgery in Zurich after Heinrich Locher-Zwingli, who was appointed at the […]

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The beginnings of the medical journal The first scientific journals with medical content were published in the 17th century. Preconditions were created with the invention of the newspaper and the flourishing of experimental science in the Enlightenment. The tradition of the scholarly exchange of letters was transferred to scientific journals, which were printed for the […]

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