When I first arrived at the School, the World Health Organization (WHO) theme “Health for all by the year 2000” was highly topical, with an emphasis on access to primary health care.
We are now into the nineteenth year of the new century, and one which has seen its fair…
I first became consciously aware of mental health when I was in my 20s, when a friend of mine was admitted to a psychiatric ward under the Mental Health Act (aka “sectioned”). This happened on two occasions, but I only witnessed the behaviour that led to this action once, when…
The reports series collection contains some very useful items, especially if you are looking for historical, geographical, statistical / epidemiological information.
Reports series are typically health statistics and census data produced by governmental and non-governmental organizations on a regular basis – e.g. weekly, monthly, annually, every 10 years. The name…
There are a number of works on rural health in our collections, including general works from dating the late 19th century when the public health movement gathered momentum.
The examples I have chosen below are on the open shelves in the gallery. Please ask library staff for directions if…
Books for orientation
In a previous blog* I extolled the virtues of walking in London. Here are a couple of books to set local walks in an historical public health and tropical medicine context.
Black, Nick. Walking London’s medical history. London : Hodder Arnold, 2012.
Library location: DX…
I approached my manager clutching a collection of books of various shapes and sizes that I hoped I had classified correctly and to her satisfaction. I had only been working as the library’s cataloguer for 2 weeks and was eager to meet her high standards .
“This is a pamphlet…
I was fourteen. My history class were on a visit to London, my first visit to the Capital I can remember with any clarity. Unlike other school trips, which were mostly by coach or the school minibus we travelled by Inter City train from Birmingham New Street, in…
How do you say it?
Borrow (verb) “take and use something belonging to someone else with the intention of returning it”
“May I borrow this book?”
“May I take this book out?”
The emphasis is on removing the item from the custody of the library for the permitted period…
“Mr Bojangles was NOT a tap dancer, he was soft shoe. It is not the same!”
And with this remark, Mr Soft Shoe walked away with a bonus point for his team.
It was pub quiz night at the LSHTM Bar circa 1999 and Andre, Jonathan and Mark were trying…
Mark (the librarian) looked up from a pile of pamphlets on nutrition and water supply and mused “why are these ‘bex-ee’ (BEXY) and ‘sez-ee’ (SEZY)?” As a young twenty something with (mostly) one thing on his mind he was no doubt hoping there would be books bearing the…
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Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828-1901) : agricultural entomologist and an early authority on insect pest control. LSHTM Library Blog No. 10. June 2024
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Treatise on the small pox : in two parts, by Theophilus Lobb, MD. – London : printed for T. Woodward, 1731.
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The Historical Collection: Cottage hospitals general, fever, and convalescent by Henry C. Burdett
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Clean Air Day 20th June 2024
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