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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 Routledge series, Studies in the Social History of Medicine.
2008 Conference Programme
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 is the value of historical perspectives on issues relating to medicine, health and healthcare. As such, it encourages 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 will be jointly hosted by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow and the Centre for the History of Medicine. The former is a research collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and Glasgow Caledonian University and the latter is a research centre at Glasgow University. To submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words (deadline 31 March 2008), or for further details, contact Lydia Marshall.
Disability History: Theory and Practice. Organised by San Francisco State University's Institute on Disability, the Disability History Association, and the Disability History Group. To be held on 31 July-3 August, 2008 in San Francisco. The Call for proposals, to include a title and be no longer than 300 words. Deadline November 1, 2007 for electronic submissions and December 1, 2007 for hard copy submissions through the postal system. Papers invited on any aspect or stream of disability history, including cultural representations, the history of ideas, and social/political movements. For further information, or to submit your proposal, please contact Professor Paul K. Longmore (Professor of History and Director, Institute on Disability, San Francisco State University, CA 94132, USA)
Who Cared? Oral History, Caring, Health and Illness: Marking 60 Years of the National Health Service (University of Birmingham, 4-5 July): This is the 2008 Annual Conference for the Oral History Society, with support from the University of Birmingham, the Centre for the History of Medicine (Birmingham) and the SSHM. For conference programme and registration details, please click here.
SSHM Postgraduate Conference 2009 (University College Dublin, April 2009): University College Dublin will host the next SSHM postgraduate conference in April 2009. Details are still being finalised and exact dates and a call for papers will be advertised shortly. For any questions please contact: Dr Rosemary Wall (Postgraduate Affairs Co-ordinator) or Dr Catherine Cox (Local Organiser).
Imagining and Practicing Imperial and Colonial Medicine, 1870-1960. Held at the University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, January 10-12, 2008 For further details, please contact Ryan Johnson.
2007 Conference Programme
Children, Disability, and Community Care from 1850 to the Present Day. To be held at the University of Swansea, October 24-25, 2007. For further details, please contact Pamela Dale.
SSHM Annual Conference 2007 Joint conference with the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. To be held at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, September 12-15, 2007.
The Disability History Group will be hosting their inaugural conference, entitled 'Reassessing Disability: New approaches to disability history', on 28 and 29 June 2007 at the Peninsula College for Medicine and Dentistry, Truro, Cornwall. For further details, please contact Wendy Gagen
2006
Conference Programme
The importance of place in medical practice. To be held at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, September 18-19, 2006. For further details, please contact Claire Keyte.
International Conference on the History of Suicide. To be held at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 18-19, 2006. For further details, please contact David Wright.
SSHM Annual Conference 2006: Practices and Representations of Health: Historical Perspectives. To be held at the University of Warwick, June 28-30, 2006, organised jointly by the Centres for the History of Medicine at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. For further details, please contact Molly Rogers.
‘Working with Dust: Health, Dust and Diseases in the History of Occupational Health’. An international comparative conference on industrial health and the politics of disease regulation since 1700. To be held at Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, April 10-12, 2006. For further details, please contact Claire Keyte, Centre for the Medical History.
SSHM Postgraduate Conference: From the Cradle to the Grave: Future perspectives on the Social History of Health and Healthcare. To be held at the Glasgow Caledonian University, January 11-12, 2006. For further details, please contact the organizers.
2005 Conference Programme
Apothecaries, Art and Architecture: Interpreting Georgian Medicine. A Joint Symposium in honour of Roy Porter, to be 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. To be held at Paris, September 7-10, 2005. For further details, please contact Patrice Bourdelais.
Comparison, Transfer and Histoire Croisée in the History of Psychiatry.To be held at Southampton, September 3-4, 2005. For further details, please contact Thomas Mueller, or Waltraud Ernst
‘People and Places’: 37th International Congress for the History of Pharmacy, June 22-25, 2005, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, please contact Index Communications Meeting Services (Scotland) Ltd.
Sex Education of the Young in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural History. A international conference to be held at the University of Durham, April 16-17, 2005. Conveners: Lutz Sauerteig (CHMD, University of Durham) and Roger Davidson (School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh).
Health, Heredity & the Modern Home. To be held at Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, March 21-23, 2005. For further details, please contact Claire Keyte.
Past Conferences
Conferences organised by the SSHM in 2004:
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:
Special Issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81:1 (2007), Table of Contents.
Introduction by David Cantor, 'Cancer Control and Prevention in the Twentieth Century (PDF).
Healthy Towns, Healthy Cities: Public Health in British Cities, 1844-2004. To be held at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 12 November 2004. For Further details, please contact Martin Gorsky.
Alice Stewart: a life in epidemiology. To be held at Friends Meeting House, London, March, 3, 2004. For further details, please contact Robert Arnott, University of Birmingham.
Workshop: Health, Medicine and Cultural History. To be held at the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Wolfson Research Institute, University of Durham, Queen’s Campus, January 30, 2004. For further details, please contact Lutz Sauerteig, University of Durham.
Conferences organised by the SSHM in 2003:
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.
Conferences organised by the SSHM in 2002:
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.
From Urban Penalty to Global Crisis: Current Issues in the History of Tuberculosis. Held at the University of Sheffield, March 23-24, 2002.
Conferences organised by the SSHM in 2001:
Science, Policy and Practice: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Historical Dimensions. Held at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th April 2001.
'Ethics and Ethnics: the Implementation of Western Medicine, 1800 to the Present'. Held at the University of Aberdeen, Oct., 19-20, 2001.
Conferences organised by the SSHM in 2000:
Medicine - Magic - Religion, 17-18 July 2000, Southampton
Work, Health and Illness: the comparative history of industrial diseases, accidents and occupational medicine, 8-10 September 2000, Exeter
Report on the one-day symposium on ‘Medical Practice around the Year 1000’, held at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, November 2000.
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