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READING MATTER
Periodicals
Munro, Patricia, '"Baffling beauty": a pilot project
about beauty, health, and our bodies', Visitor behaviour,
Vol.XI, No.1, Spring 1996, pp.4-5. |
'Baffling beauty' is a travelling health education project, consisting
of an exhibition with supporting public programs. The author of
this paper describes the various stages in the front-end evaluation
of this project leading up to its opening in July |
Smith, Cate, 'North Head Quarantine Station', Public History
Review, Vol. 4, 1995, pp. 134 - 139. |
A review of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service's
presentation of the North Head Quarantine Station at Manly, and
an examination of the ways in which representations of 'the past'
in museum exhibitions and heritage sites impact on t |
Archivaria (Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists),
Spring, No.41, 1996, ISSN 0318-6954. |
This issue of Archivaria is a special issue on medical
archives. Articles include:
Barbara L. Craig, ' "Archives and Medicine" revisited: looking out, looking in, and looking ahead', p.41.
Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland, 'Health sciences documentation and networked hypermedia: an integrative approach', p.45.
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Alistair Tough, 'Cutting the Gordian knot: or how to preserve non-current clinical records without being buried in paper', p.61.
Elizabeth Denham, 'Dealing with the records of closing hospitals: the Calgary Area Health Authority plan', p.78.
Carolyn Heald, 'Documenting disease: Ontario's bureaucracy battles tuberculosis', p.88.
Kathryn McPherson, 'Nurses, archives, and the history of Canadian health care', p.108. Geoffrey Reaume and Barbara L. Craig, 'Medical archives: an update of the Spadoni bibliography, 1986-1995', p.121.
Nancy McCall and Lisa A. Mix, 'Scholarly returns: patterns of research in a medical archives'. Barbara L. Craig, 'Batson's Trust for the Royal London Hospital: records management 1820s style', p.188. |
'Museum practice'
Published in Great Britain, each issue of this new journal has
a main theme. For Vol.1, No.1 it is 'Storage' and for No.2 it
is 'Display'. |
The main theme for No.3 is 'Outreach'. Within this
theme of 'Outreach' there is a section on 'Museums and reminiscence
work' (pp. 58-60). Another section deals with 'Museums on the
road', and here there are two articles of particular interest
to HMM members. The first is a case study of Riksutställningar, Sweden's government funded producer of travelling exhibitions (pp.73 - 75). This short article on how Riksutställningar produces its exhibitions refers to some recent examples, including an exhibition on Alzheimer's disease housed in a skull-shaped enclosure, and a garbage museum mounted in an articulated trailer. The second article of interest is about 'Reminiscence kits' which have items in them that people are allowed to handle (p.76). These kits are particularly valuable as a stimulus to elderly people's long-term memory and reminiscence. This useful short article on making and utilising reminiscence kits includes a list of memory boxes based on social history themes that have been assembled at the Manor Museum in England. One of these boxes is called 'Under the weather' and contains medicines, a bed warmer and other items that stimulate memories of past illnesses.
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Proceedings
Deacon, P., Electronic documents and archiving, History, heritage
and health: Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Conference of the
Australian Society of the History of Medicine 1996, p.218.
In 50 years' time, historians may be using computers to search,
retrieve and view the documents which we are creating now. P.
Deacon, from the library at the Commonwealth Department of Human
Services and Health, discusses some of the issues which must be
faced before we can commit our records to electronic rather than
paper archiving.
Books and monographs
Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, Cinderella collections:
university museums and collections in Australia: the report of
the University Museums Review Committee, 1996.
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This is a 225-page bound report. It was commissioned by the Commonwealth
Department of Employment, Education and Training, which recognised
the scale and national significance of the more than 250 museums
and collections in Australian universities, many of which contain
rare and valuable items that are now virtually irreplaceable.
Requests for copies of the report should be directed to the Australian
Vice-Chancellors' Committee, GPO Box 1142, Canberra, ACT 2601,
Australia. |
Bynum W.F. and Porter, Roy (eds), Companion encyclopaedia of
the history of medicine, 2 volumes, Routledge, London and
New York, 1993. Around $A263.00.
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This massive work will interest anyone involved with the history
of medicine, but for people interested in the artefacts
of health and medicine, there are at least two chapters of particular
relevance. Both are in volume 2 of the Companion encyclopaedia:
Reiser, Stanley Joel, The science of diagnosis: diagnostic
technology, pp. 824-851.
Marks, Harry M., Medical technologies: social contexts and
consequences, pp. 1592-1618 (this chapter also has an excellent
bibliographic list for further reading on microscopes, stethoscopes,
the electrocardiogram, X-rays and radiology, and anaesthesia and
artificial respiration, as well as the social history of medical
technology and women's history in relation to medical technology).
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Gamwell, Lynn and Tomes, Nancy, Madness in America: cultural
and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914, Cornell
Studies in the History of Psychiatry, 182 pp., Cornell University
Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 1995, $US39.95.
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This book, by a museum director and curator, and a historian,
receives an excellent review in Isis, Vol.87, No.3, September
1996, p.577. We do not usually include works on the history of
medicine in our Reading Matter list for HMM members unless they
are of particular interest to custodians of collections. In this
case we are listing the book by Gamwell and Tomes because, according
to the Isis reviewer, "it is lavishly illustrated
with drawings and photographs designed to highlight its cogent
text". Amongst these illustrations are "pictures of
artifacts employed to treat, imprison, and subdue the mad". |
Jackson, W.A., The Victorian chemist and druggist, Shire
Album 80, Shire Publications Ltd, UK, 1981. |
This title in the Shire Album series is still available. |
Townley, Patricia, & Parris, Roger, Caring for heritage
objects: guidelines on establishing significance, object care
and management, Powerhouse Museum Research Series: No.3, Powerhouse
Publishing, Sydney (PO Box K346, Haymarket, NSW 2000, Australia),
1994. | |
Warren, David J., Old medical and dental instruments, Shire
Album 308, Shire Publications, UK, 1994. |
This is a delightful little book in the Shire Album series. It
has 30 pages of medical and dental collectibles with B&W photographs,
suggested further reading, and a list of places to visit in UK. |
A manual for cataloging historical medical artifacts using
OCLC and the MARC format. Prepared as part of the Ohio Medical
Artifact Cataloging (OHMAC) Project, a project of the Ohio Network
of Medical History Collections, 81 pp. |
For further information contact:
Patsy Gerstner or Jennifer Compton
Cleveland Medical Library Association,
11000 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-1714.
This useful manual contains much helpful information for people
cataloguing medical artefacts, including a list of suject headings
for artefacts owned by the Dittrick Museum of Medical History.
HMM HAS BEEN GIVEN PERMISSION TO PHOTOCOPY THIS HANDBOOK
Many thanks to Ms Patsy Gerstner
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