Conferences

Since 1970, the Society for the Social History of Medicine has been actively involved in the organization of specialised conferences and has facilitated research and debate within the discipline of the social history of medicine, with a particular emphasis on inter-disciplinary approaches.

The Society's conferences are open to non-members. However, membership of the Society entitles conference delegates not only to reduced registration fees (there are some bursaries available for student members on request) but also includes many other benefits, such as subscription to the journal Social History of Medicine and a 30% reduction on books published in the Society's text series, Studies in the Social History of Medicine.

SSHM-supported Conference: Under control?: alcohol and drug regulation, past and present

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Papers and panel proposals are invited for an international conference on the history of alcohol and drug regulation to be held in Bristol, UK 21st-23rd June 2013. The conference will explore all aspects of alcohol, drug and tobacco policy. It will consider whether historical perspectives can shed light on contemporary debates around issues such as as drug prohibition, treatment, alcohol licensing, criminal justice and controls on the representation of substance use in popular culture.

Keynote speakers:
Professor Virginia Berridge (LSHTM)
Professor Paul Gootenberg (SUNY)

CFP: Food and Hospitals: an historical perspective

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Place: Brussels, Belgium
Date: 26-27 April 2013

Hosted by the University of Birmingham (Brussels campus) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB), Sponsored by the Society For Social History of Medicine

Conference: Learning from Lister - Antisepsis, Safer Surgery, and Global Health

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Date: 22-24 March 2012
Place: King's College London

CFP and Interest: Bob Woods Memorial Symposium

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Professor Bob Woods, FBA, John Rankin Professor of Geography in the University of Liverpool died in February 2011.

Throughout his University career, as a student in both Cambridge and Oxford, and as a university teacher in Kent, Sheffield and Liverpool, Bob contributed significantly of Population Studies, including the Social History of Medicine. See a full obituary in the British Society for Population Studies Newsletter of March 2011: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy/BSPS/newsletters/Home.aspx.

Symposium: National Institutes of Health Graduate and Post-Doctoral Student Symposium

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Date: 10 June 2011
Venue: Lister Hill Visitor’s Center (Building 38A), National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Free to Registrants

This Symposium – cosponsored by the Office of History, the National Library of Medicine, the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the Chemical Heritage Foundation – aims to provide a forum for graduate and post-doctoral students in the history of medicine and the biomedical sciences to discuss issues of common interest.

For further details and registration please download the conference program.

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