Past Conferences

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 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health held its bi-annual conference at Heidelberg, Germany on 3-6 September 2009. The preliminary conference programme focused on the theme "Global Developments and Local Specificities in the History of Medicine and Health".

8-9 May 2009, Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science.

University College Dublin, April 16-18 2009.

The theme of the SSHM Postgraduate Conference 2009 was "Medicine and Healthcare: History and Context". The conference was held in association with the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland and University College Dublin/University of Ulster, with additional funding from the Wellcome Trust.

SSHM Annual Conference 2008 (Glasgow, 3-5 September): History and the Healthy Population: Society, Government, Health and Medicine. The broad theme of the SSHM2008 event was the value of historical perspectives on issues relating to medicine, health and healthcare. As such, it encouraged papers from all periods and all places to encourage a wide-ranging and inclusive meeting that reflects the diversity of the history of medicine subject area. The event was jointly hosted by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow and the Centre for the History of Medicine.