{"id":1710,"date":"2025-06-27T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T18:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/?page_id=1710"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:12:47","slug":"special-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<p>The WSU Health Sciences Library is home to a collection of historical materials documenting the history of health sciences and medicine. This includes books, periodicals, medical devices, and ephemera. Some materials are about the history of medicine, and other materials are period pieces. This includes:<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n<div class=\"wsu-callout wsu-dropshadow--medium wsu-callout--style-basic wsu-border--add-top wsu-color-background--white wsu-border--color-crimson wsu-spacing-bottom--xmedium wsu-position--relative wsu-overflow--hidden\" >\r\n        \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading  wsu-font-size--xxmedium\">Contact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:spok.lib@wsu.edu\">spok.lib@wsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--thirds\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading  wsu-heading--style-marked\">Risse Collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The WSU Health Sciences Library houses the Guenter Risse Collection, the library of scholar and medical historian Guenter Risse. These books are available for in-library use.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading  wsu-heading--style-marked\">Nursing Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The library holds a small collection of midcentury fiction about nurses. These books, which remain popular reads today, are available to check out from the library.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading  wsu-heading--style-marked\">Medical Devices &amp; Paraphernalia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection includes a variety of items including acupuncture educational forms, homeopathy materials, historic medical devices, and more.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":41121,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1710\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}