No.28 April 2005
In this issue President Judith Cornell visits Auckland New Zealand for the Australian Society History of Medicine Conference and there is her annual report from HMM's AGM
Sharon Ganzer reports on the NSW Chapter's guided walk visiting historical medical sites in Macquarie Street during May's Museums Australia Conference

No.27 November 2004
This issue features the largest homeopathic collection in Australasia, American Julian Winston's collection relocated in Tawa New Zealand.
Derby's Leprosarium now has a commemorative collection in WA and memories of Prince Henry Hospital live on in the Nursing and Medical Museum at Little Bay NSW

No.26 April 2004
This issue takes a "tiki tour" around New Zealand's health and medicine collections. Guest editor visits the Chatham Is and collects untold stories of the health care there in the 30's.
Victoria Museum Curator Nurin Vies updates the fate of the CSL Collection.

No.25 December 2003
This issue draws attention to the troop of Mannequins and Dummies (MAD) that have represented health professionals and patients alike for generations of museum goers (and student nurses) - enjoy the the MAD SIG sponsorship of this edition.
The feature on respirators prompted lots more stories of iron lungs. Newspaper snippets tell how people in Melbourne fared using iron lungs in the 30's.
There's news from each chapter, book reviews, websites of interest and travelers' tales. (NB file 1.2MB)

No.24 March 2003
In this special issue we present new information about the ‘iron lung’ in Australia. Reminders of the poliomyelitis epidemics of the mid-20th century, ‘iron lungs’ or cabinet respirators in Australian museums are not all the same, although many are versions of the wooden ‘Both’ or ‘Nuffield’ respirator. In other articles, holidaying HMM members seek out health and medicine displays in Northern Territory and Queensland museums, and there is an update on the situation with the CSL collection from the former Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Melbourne. Plus lots more.

No. 23 August 2002
Our newsletter has a new name! You'll get a bang out of these articles.
Dangerous objects - two stories featuring the kind of hazardous objects that give museum custodians the heebie-jeebies. What is significance? – examples of statements of significance for medical objects. Psychiatric real estate - heritage hospitals on valuable land. And lots more.

No.22. April 2002
Rubber and metal - advice on storing and managing metal instruments and rubber items in medical collections. Also What is a museum? and Health and medicine heritage in South Australia. Plus lots more.

No.21. December 2001
Women's health on the move. Rona Hollingsworth reports on an exhibition on Women's health then and now developed by the Tasmanian Medical History Museum and Archive. It's being toured by the Tasmanian Women's Health Access Program to accompany a wide range of workshops on women's issues.

No.20. July 2001
Planning and implementing a collection management system. Advice from Basil Dewhurst at AMOL (Australian Museums On-Line) on how to choose a collection management system to suit your needs. Other articles include Preserving patient medical records, What is movable heritage? and What is an archive?

No.19. December 2000 – January 2001
Nightingale Wing saved for nurses. Valda Wiles reports what action was taken to preserve the Nightingale Wing at Sydney Hospital for the nurses of Australia after plans were announced to turn it into offices for the NSW Parliament.

No.18, June 2000
Whose bed is it anyway? In an issue that features stories about nursing collections, Joy Yarad tells how her museum assisted a theatrical production, John Wilson airs strong views on teaching nursing history to student nurses, and Kim Nielsen-Creeley describes how nursing artefacts inform her post-graduate art project.

No.17, December 1999
The lie of the land for medical museums. Susan Barnett's survey of medical museums in Australia - their staffing, accessibility and loan policies.

No.16, July 1999
Photographing your collection. Registrar Des Barrett and photographer Nitsa Yioupros give practical hints on using photographs when cataloguing your collection

No.15, December 1998
Bringing order to chaos. Ann Southin and Jean Munro share their solution to the problem of organising a large collection of historical photographs.

No.14, June 1998
Is your museum a dumping ground? Megan Hicks suggests how to be discriminating about what you collect.

No.13, December 1997
Coming to grips with cataloguing. The recommendations from a cataloguing workshop held by the New South Wales branch of HMM.

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