A Plea for Medical History Exhibitions in India

“A Strange Incongruity”: The Imaginary India of the International Exhibitions

A Plea for a Forward Public-Health Policy in India *A paper read at the Public Health Society, Calcutta, on the 21st May, 1937.

Exhibiting Good Health: Public Health Exhibitions in London, 1948–71

This article examines the changing nature of public health services and their relationship with the public in post-war Britain by an analysis of the exhibitions mounted by Medical Officers of Health (MOsH) in London. Focusing on the period 1948-71, the article explores a time when public health practice, and the problems it faced, were in flux. A decline in infectious disease and an increase in...

New developments at the Wellcome Institute

After a diaspora lasting three years, the Wellcome Institute has been reunited under the roof of 183 Euston Road, in the refurbished Wellcome Building. The Library is still located on the second and third floors, with its reading room a central feature. The Library has expanded, however, with more open shelving for its reference collection and modern printed books, and a separate area (The Poyn...

The history of sutures.

'public'. This major event in Scottish social history was suitably celebrated throughout the country and many schools chose health topics for display in their exhibitions. A hundred years ago, during a period corresponding to that covered by this Report of Proceedings, stirring events were taking place in Edinburgh on the question of admission ofwomen to the university and their medical educati...