Society for the Social History of Medicine

Latest Issue of Social History of Medicine

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The December 2009 issue of Social History of Medicine is now available and focuses on the special topic of "Medical Refugees in Britain and the Wider World, 1930-1960". For a complete list of articles and books reviewed, please see the journal website: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl .

2008 Roy Porter Memorial Essay Prize

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The winner of the 2008 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize is Mark Honigsbaum, a PhD Candidate at University College London. His essay, 'The Great Dread: Cultural and Psychological Impacts and Responses to the 'Russian' Influenza in the United Kingdom, 1889-93' is indeed a timely one.

CFP: The Stimulated Body and the Arts: the Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics

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This international interdisciplinary conference will be held on the 17-18 February 2011 at the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University, UK.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2010

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CFP: International Conference on Sport and Society

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The International Conference on Sport and Society will be held at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) on the 8-10 March, 2010.

The 2010 Sport and Society Conference will address a range of critically important issues and themes relating to the Sport and Society. Plenary speakers will include leading thinkers and practitioners in the sports, as well as paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners in all fields of sport and kinesiology. The conference will take place between the Olympic and Paralympic Games.