John Snow Society Explained

John Snow Society
Formation:1992
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Type:Learned society
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Headquarters:London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Location City:London
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Fields:Public health
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The John Snow Society (JSS), founded 1992, is a learned society named for the English physician John Snow. It publishes the newsletter Broad Sheet, and hosts the Pumphandle Lecture at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The John Snow pub in Soho, London, serves as its meeting place.

Members are generally leading public health physicians, epidemiologists and anaesthetists. Membership requirements include a lifetime subscription, an interest in the works of Snow, and visiting the John Snow pub on at least one occasion when visiting London.

History

The John Snow Society (JSS) was founded in 1992, as a learned society named for John Snow, with the support of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Royal Society for Public Health.[1] Its co-founder and first president was Paul Fine,[2] [3] who believes that the address book (that is, the ability to map and otherwise identify characteristics of people in relation to the local spread of disease) is key to public health and the solving of epidemics.[4] A demonstrative pumping action handshake was introduced to greet members.[5]

Membership

Members of the JSS are typically leading public health physicians, epidemiologists, and anaesthetists.[6] [7] [8] Membership requirements include a lifetime subscription fee, supporting the works of John Snow, and visiting the John Snow pub in Soho on at least one occasion when visiting London.[1] [9] [10] There, they may sign the visitor book and make a toast to Snow's achievements.[11] Members include Norman Begg,[12] Frank J. Mahoney,[13] Jimmy Whitworth, Sandy Cairncross, Christina Marriott, Liam Smeeth, Stefan Flasche, Sebastian Funk, James Hargreaves, Dilys Morgan, Marta Tufet, and Rosalind Stanwell-Smith.[8] [14]

As of 2022 lifetime membership costs £15.[15]

Activities

The JSS communicates to its members through its newsletter, the Broad Sheet.[8]

The John Snow pub serves as a meeting place for the JSS.[6] [16] Its annual general meeting (AGM) is held there, typically following their Pumphandle Lecture.[17] [18] At the conclusion of the Pumphandle Lecture, the guest speaker ceremonially removes the pump handle.[19] The attendees then retire to the John Snow pub, where the AGM of the Society takes place.[19]

Members are expected to visit the pub on at least one occasion when visiting London.[10] The minimum number of members to account for an official JSS meeting is two.[1] The JSS possesses the original Broad Street pump.[20] After the removal of the replica pump in 1992, the JSS petitioned for its return to its original site, achieved in 2018.[21]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Constitution . The John Snow Society . 27 October 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231027073424/https://johnsnowsociety.org/constitution/ . 27 October 2023.
  2. Web site: Society . The John Snow . 1993 Dr Nick Ward: Global Polio Eradication- a call for action . The John Snow Society . 25 October 2023 . 9 September 1993.
  3. Canfell . Karen . Liu . Bette . Banks . Emily . Reflections on the life and career of Professor Dame Valerie Beral AC DBE FRS FRCOG FMedSci (1943–2022) . Medical Journal of Australia . May 2023 . 218 . 8 . 352–353 . 10.5694/mja2.51914 . 37015378 . 257954520 . en . 0025-729X. free .
  4. Book: Media . Everest . Summary of Deirdre Mask's The Address Book . 21 July 2022 . Everest Media LLC . 979-8-8225-4522-9 . en.
  5. Book: Mask . Deirdre . The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth and Power . 2 April 2020 . Profile . 978-1-78283-378-9 . https://books.google.com/books?id=FwOCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT50 . 2. Haiti: could street addresses stop an epidemic?. 50. en.
  6. Book: Dazeley . Peter . Daly . Mark . London Explored: Secret, Surprising and Unusual Places to Discover in the Capital . 2021 . Frances Lincoln . 978-0-7112-4035-3 . 18–19 . https://books.google.com/books?id=YXBEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 . en . Westminster and West End.
  7. Book: Bacon . Douglas R. . Wilkinson . David J. . Healy . Thomas . Knight . Paul . Wylie Churchill-Davidson's A Practice of Anesthesia . 2003 . CRC Press . Boca Raton . 978-1-4441-1402-7 . 7th . https://books.google.com/books?id=NGrNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 . en . Great moments in the history of anaesthesiology.
  8. News: Society matters . 27 October 2023 . Broad Sheet . 2022 . 8.
  9. Snow . Stephanie J . John Snow MD (1813–1858). Part I: A Yorkshire Childhood and Family Life . Journal of Medical Biography . February 2000 . 8 . 1 . 27–31 . 10.1177/096777200000800106 . 10994044 . 26370756 . en . 0967-7720. subscription.
  10. Snow . Stephanie J . John Snow: the making of a hero? . The Lancet . July 2008 . 372 . 9632 . 22–23 . 10.1016/s0140-6736(08)60978-2 . 18613323 . 44461789 . free .
  11. Kuh . Diana . "The Pump Don't Work, 'cause the Vandals Took the Handles."1 . Epidemiology . September 2004 . 15 . 5 . 517–518 . 10.1097/01.ede.0000135913.25938.48 . 15308945 . 1044-3983. free .
  12. Web site: Dr Norman Begg . www.who.int . World Health Organisation . 25 October 2023 . en. https://web.archive.org/web/20231029192336/https://www.who.int/europe/about-us/about-who-europe/regional-director/regional-directors-emeritus/dr-norman-begg. 29 October 2023.
  13. Book: Medicine . National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and . Urbanization and Slums: Infectious Diseases in the Built Environment: Proceedings of a Workshop . Division . Health and Medicine . Health . Board on Global . Threats . Forum on Microbial . 2018 . National Academies Press . 978-0-309-47442-9 . en. 126.
  14. Stanwell-Smith . Rosalind . The remarkable Dr John Snow . Perspectives in Public Health . September 2013 . 133 . 5 . 237 . 10.1177/1757913913499985 . 24022973 . 28541197 . 1757-9139.
  15. Book: Begg . Norman . The Remarkable Story of Vaccines: Milkmaid to Genome . 2022 . CRC Press . 978-1-000-64031-1 . en.
  16. Book: Dalton . Harry . The Hepatitis E Virus: Pigs Might Fly . 2019 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing . 978-1-5275-3044-7 . 111 . https://books.google.com/books?id=N-CKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA111. 28. Heroes. en.
  17. Book: Ashton . John . Practising Public Health: An Eyewitness Account . 2020 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-874317-0 . 65 . https://books.google.com/books?id=YzG-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65. en . 4. Promoting and improving health.
  18. Book: Lax . Alistair J. . Toxin: The cunning of bacterial poisons . 2005 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-157850-2 . 29 . https://books.google.com/books?id=IuvRClJOT5EC&pg=PA29. en . 2. The germ of an idea: a gradual acceleration up to the mid-1850s.
  19. Web site: 9 September 1993 . 1993 Dr Nick Ward: Global Polio Eradication- a call for action . https://web.archive.org/web/20231026111238/https://johnsnowsociety.org/1993/09/09/1993-dr-nick-ward-global-polio-eradication-a-call-for-action/ . 26 October 2023 . 26 October 2023 . The John Snow Society.
  20. Book: Goldfarb . William . Pfafflin . James R. . Ziegler . Edward N. . Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering, Volumes One and Two . 2006 . CRC Press . Boco Raton . 978-1-4398-5186-9 . 370 . 5th . https://books.google.com/books?id=eCXSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA370. en . Environment law.
  21. Web site: 20 July 2018 . The return of the pump . https://web.archive.org/web/20231028050136/https://johnsnowsociety.org/2018/07/20/the-return-of-the-pump/ . 28 October 2023 . 26 October 2023 . The John Snow Society.

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