For International Women’s Day, we celebrate a selection of books authored/co-edited/co-authored by some of our women colleagues. These books will be on display in the Reading Room of LSHTM Library for a couple of weeks beginning 2 March.
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Professor Anne Mills:
Emeritus Professor of Health Economics and Policy and a “pioneering force in the fields of health economics and health systems research, particularly in low- and middle-income countries” (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/anne-mills-valedictory-event)
Books:
Titles on display:
Policy-making and Planning in the Health Sector (2026) CBM 2026
Global health : diseases, programs, systems and policies (2011) SO.09
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Dame Claire Bertschinger:
Director for Professional Diploma in Tropical Nursing. She is “known as the nurse who inspired Live Aid, worked for the International Red Cross during the Ethiopian famine in 1984. She is an author, the recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, Woman of the Year Award, and the Human Rights in Nursing” (https://mastersinnursingonline.com/2010/top-20-most-influential-people-in-the-nursing-field/)
Title on display:
Moving mountains (2010) DY (BER) is her account of her time in Ethiopia in 1984.
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Professor Virginia Berridge:
Emeritus Professor of History and Health Policy whose book “Demons”* has been described as “thought-provoking” (Virginia Berridge. Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs. The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 2014 28:2, 199-200” by Room, R) and “meticulously researched and expertly written”. (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12574)
Titles on display:
Making health policy : networks in research and policy after 1945 (2005) SOF.D.41
Public health : a very short introduction (2016) SO
Temperence: Its history and impact on current and future alcohol policy (2005) GFD.S.41
*Demons (2013) can be found in the Reading Room, shelf no. GF.U
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Professor Judith Glynn:
Emeritus Professor of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
BookS:
Facts, figures, and fallacies : epidemiological pitfalls in medical research (1994) EHA
HIV, resurgent infections and population change in Africa (2007) KM.U.1
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Professor Alex Mold:
Professor of Public Health History
Books:
Titles on display:
Making the patient-consumer : patient organisations and health consumerism in Britain (2015) CB.U.41
Voluntary action and illegal drugs: health and society in Britain since the 1960s (2010) GF.D.41 (co-authored with Virginia Berridge)
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Professor Val Curtis:
Professor Curtis was the Director of the Environmental Health Group. She passed away in 2020. She is remembered as having “mentored a generation of researchers and practitioners in hygiene and sanitation and was a special inspiration to young women seeking professional careers in public health.” (https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/supportus/gift-in-action/val-curtis-memorial-fund)
Books:
Titles on display:
Don’t look, don’t touch, don’t eat : the science behind revulsion (2013) UJBM
The Dangers of Dirt (1998) SGH
