Past Conferences

The importance of place in medical practice. Held at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, September 18-19, 2006.

International Conference on the History of Suicide. Held at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 18-19, 2006.

Apothecaries, Art and Architecture: Interpreting Georgian Medicine. A Joint Symposium in honour of Roy Porter, held at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, in collaboration with Dr Johnson's House Trust, November 24-25, 2005.

Cultural History of Health and Beyond. Joint conference with the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. Held at Paris, September 7-10, 2005.

Cancer in the Twentieth Century (PDF), a workshop held at the National Library of Medicine, Maryland, USA, November 15-17, 2004. Co-sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, the History of Medicine Division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. A selection of papers from this meeting has been published as a special issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine:

Hospital Contributory Schemes to Health Cash Plans: A Twentieth Century History of a British Institution. Held at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, October 22, 2003.

Devices and Designs: Medical Innovating in Historical Perspective. Held at the CHSTM and Wellcome Unit, Manchester University, UK, July 11-13, 2003.

Medicine and Society in the Midlands, 1750-1950. Held at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK, May 16-17, 2003.

Birthing and Bureaucracy: The history of childbirth and midwifery. Held at the University of Sheffield, School of Nursing and Midwifery, October 11-12, 2002.

SSHM Research Symposium: The Normal and the Abnormal: Historical and cultural perspectives on norms and deviations. Held at the CHSTM and Wellcome Unit, Manchester University(With support from The Wellcome Trust), July 10-11, 2002.

SSHM Postgraduate workshop: 'Themes in twentieth-century psychiatry'. Held at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, June 21, 2002.