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By Kim Olson-Kopp

It’s the time of year when new books arrive at the library daily. Stop in to browse the new book shelf, or if you see something you’re interested in below, click the link and place a hold. We’ll pull it aside for you to pick up at the library’s main desk.

Medieval Monsters: Terrors, Aliens, Wonders by Sherry C M Lindquist and Asa Simon Mittman, ND 3339.5 .L56 M43 2018. Medieval Monsters explores the cultural importance and rich variety of monstrosities in the art of the Middle Ages, with examples drawn from the Morgan Library and Museum’s renowned collection of illuminated manuscripts. https://viterbouniversity.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1004957093

Paul Mueller, M.D., regional vice president for Mayo Clinic Health System, Southwest Wisconsin, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 in the Fine Arts Center Main Theatre as part of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership’s fall lecture series.

Mueller, whose region includes Mayo Clinic Health System Franciscan Healthcare-La Crosse, will present “Technological and Treatment Imperatives, Life-sustaining Treatments and Associated Ethical Challenges.”

After joining the Mayo Clinic Rochester staff in 1995 as a physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine, he chaired the group from 2009–18. Today, Mueller is a professor of medicine and a professor of biomedical ethics in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and in January he was named a fellow of The Hastings Institute, an internationally-renowned center for bioethics. 

Mueller has authored or co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and hundreds of book chapters, abstracts, letters and columns. He is an associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch General Medicine.