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Low‐dose computed tomography lung cancer screening has mortality benefits. Yet, uptake has been low. To inform strategies to better deliver and promote screening, in 2018, we interviewed 27 long‐term smokers immediately following lung cancer screening in Australia, prior to receiving scan results. Existing lung screening studies employ the Health Belief Model. Reflecting growing acknowledgement of the centrality of emotions to screening uptake, we draw on psychological and sociological theories on emotions to thematically and abductively analyse the emotional dimensions of lung cancer screening, with implications for screening promotion and delivery. As smokers, interviewees described feeling stigmatised, with female participants internalising and male participants resisting stigma. Guilt and fear related to lung cancer were described as screening motivators. The screening itself elicited mild positive emotions. Notably, interviewees expressed gratitude for the care implicitly shown through lung screening to smokers. More than individual risk assessment, findings suggest lung screening campaigns should prioritise emotions. Peer workers have been found to increase cancer screening uptake in marginalised communities, however the risk to confidentiality—especially for female smokers—limits its feasibility in lung cancer screening. Instead, we suggest involving peer consultants in developing targeted screening strategies that foreground emotions. Furthermore, findings suggest prioritising humanistic care in lung screening delivery. Such an approach may be especially important for smokers from low socioeconomic backgrounds, who perceive lung cancer screening and smoking as sources of stigma and face a higher risk of dying from lung cancer and lower engagement with screening.

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The object of this volume is to explain what rare books are and how to collect them: the theory of collecting, the traditional practices, the techniques and reference tools which can be used to achieve skill and enjoyment in the game. Since most book collectors usually proceed to acquire manuscripts related to their printed items, the authors have deemed it essential to include a chapter on this kind of material. Likewise, historical prints and old maps are discussed as a related type of document with special emphasis on maps as confirmatory evidence. The motives behind manuscript collecting are outlined and the fashions followed by noted collectors in the past are recounted. A half dozen pages are given to manuscript terminology, including a discussion of contemporary efforts to define archive. The concluding statements of the chapter encourage the collector to "let the archivist have the public papers, self-consciously written. The intimate, personal correspondence is certain to be more fascinating, and probably more valuable in interpreting events." One wishes there were some criteria offered to help the collector solve the thorny problem of how to differentiate between the personal and public papers of a public servant or official. No novel technical or scholarly discoveries are revealed in this work; however, curators of special collections may find it of assistance in stimulating new supporters or benefactors of their work. Although the authors have not intended the book to serve as a text or manual in bibliography, its chapter on that subject is most helpful. Lucid explanations of such words as edition, publication, issue and others, clarify terms which mystify beginners. Subsequent chapters dealing with buying and selling rare books, auction buying, and prices, explain the rules of the game and how it is played in the big leagues. Indeed, recurrent emphasis is given to the function and beneficent role of the dealer. Those who become devotees of this sport are frequently, and not quite incorrectly, termed "biblio-maniacs." Alas, to what depths the mania has carried some (see Chapter 14, "Fakes, Forgeries, Facsimiles and Thefts")! No, the book is not a text book: it is anecdotal, full of the history of collecting, charming in style, a seductive invitation. Do not say, ten years from now, that you were not warned of its wiles.