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Contributions for The Gazette?

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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

News: New SSHM Chair

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Congratulations to Gayle Davis (former Secretary) who is our new Chair! Thank you to Lutz Sauerteig for his hard work on the Executive over the last few years.

Latest SSHM Publication

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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

CFP: Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture, and the Arts

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The Ewha Trans-Humanities Research Team will host an international conference on “Human & Machine: Posthumanism in Technology, Culture and the Arts” from June 1st to 2nd, 2012 and invites suitable contributions for presentation at the conference.

CFP: Pain as Emotion; Emotion as Pain: Perspectives from Modern History

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Public conference, 26 October 2012

The Birkbeck Pain Project and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. Birkbeck, University of London

Organised by Visiting Fellow to the Birkbeck Pain Project, Rob Boddice, Ph.D (Languages of Emotion Cluster, Freie Universität, Berlin)

'With the benefit of the past two centuries of scientific work and thought, can one define pain?' The question was asked by the neuroscientist Edward R. Perl (Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 8, 2007). He concluded that 'it seems reasonable to propose pain to be both a specific sensation and an emotion'.

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