HMM Newsletter - No. 13, 1997 ISSN 1036-3041

Reading Matter Publications of interest to custodians of health and medicine collections Pamphlets Establishing an archives Through this leaflet the Australian Society of Archivists provides some elementary advice on how to get started and, more importantly, where to seek help. Obtainable from: Australian Society of Archivists Inc. PO Box 83 O'Connor ACT 2602 Books Norman Publishing is a USA publisher that specialises in books on medical (mainly American) history. Some of the titles in their most recent brochure may be of interest to HMM members. They include illustrated histories of surgery, and of spectacles, electrocardiography, microscopes, surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times, and obstetric and gynaecological instruments; facsimile reprints of late 19th century surgical and dental instrument catalogues and manuals; and the following new publication: American surgical instruments: an illustrated history of their manufacture and a directory of instrument makers to 1900 by James M. Edmonson, Curator, Dittrick Museum of Medical History, 352 pp., 307 illus., 27 in colour, $US150.00. " ... a meticulous analysis of the medical, surgical, and dental instrument trades in America from the later years of the eighteenth century to the earliest years of our own ..." Norman Publishing 720 Market Street San Francisco CA USA 94102-2502 Website www.historyofmedicine.com Teaching kit Your good health - a teaching resource on the history of medicine for Key Stage 2. This pack has been developed for schools by the London Museums Education Unit. All the material in the pack has been drawn from the collections and archives of the eight participating London museums of health and medicine. It includes activity sheets designed to meet a range of needs. The kit would serve as a useful model for Australian health and medicine museums who are planning education programs. The Research Library at the Powerhouse Museum (Sydney) purchased one of these in 1994 for £7.50 from the Florence Nightingale Museum, 2 Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EW. Phone 071 620 0374 (Editor's note: Check this phone number, because UK area codes have changed since 1994).