American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 8 : 783
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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The John Snow Society, founded in 1993 and currently with a worldwide membership of more than 800, has recently moved from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene (RIPHH). Information concerning the Society can be obtained by visiting the website of the RIPHH (www.riphh.org.uk) and clicking on "The John Snow Society." Membership applications can be downloaded from the website, and the lifetime membership is only about US $14.22. Membership also brings a Broad Street pump commemorative coffee mug!
My reason for drawing your attention to the Society, and urging you to join, is that, according to Honorary Pump Handle President, Dr. Paul Fine (LSHTM), a major objective of the organization is to obtain a new facsimile reprinting of Snow's classic monograph on cholera. The previous reprint of Snow on Cholera, 2nd ed., first published in 1936 (1
), has long been out of print. If you can find a copy on the Internet or elsewhere, you will have to pay several hundreds of dollars. Certainly, most epidemiologists would like to own a copy of this classic but are unlikely to be able to afford the price. Hopefully, any future reproduction will include Wade Hampton Frost's insightful introduction to the Commonwealth reprint as well as Snow's essay on communicable disease theory, "On Continuous Molecular Changes" (2).
Your membership in the Society will certainly strengthen justification for a reissue!
REFERENCES
- Snow on cholera. (Reprint). 2nd ed. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund, 1936.
- Snow M. On continuous molecular changes, more particularly in their relation to epidemic diseases. In: Snow on cholera. (Reprint). 2nd ed. New York, NY: The Commonwealth Fund, 1936:147–75.
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