We are pleased to announce that Pickering & Chatto will be giving away a limited number of free eBooks from the series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Vouchers will be included in the next SSHM Gazette, available in May.

See the Times Literary Supplement this week for a review of the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, ed. Mark Jackson. The Handbook includes chapters by members of SSHM's Executive Committee (Gayle Davis, Carsten Timmermann, Graham Mooney) and many more.

We are always interested in receiving contributions for The Gazette, which we send out with our journal. Conference reports and pictures, conference advertisements, general news in the field -- all are welcome!

Please send your contributions, or questions about potential contributions, to Andrew Hull (hull@sshm.org).

The submission deadlines for 2012 are as follows:
16 January
16 April
16 July
15 October

The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major biannual, international, interdisciplinary conference. From 10-12 September 2012, it will be held at Queen Mary, University of London in conjunction with the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions on the topic of Emotions, Health and Wellbeing.

The conference this year investigates the intimate relationship between the emotions and medicine. A conference programme will be posted in due course.

The most recent monograph to appear in the SSHM's Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine series is Catherine Kelly, War and the Militarization of British Army Medicine, 1793–1830, July 2011