The Benefits of Membership in SSHM

Members of the Society are entitled to the following benefits

  • Subscription to the journal Social History of Medicine with three issues per year.
  • Access to the full online archive of Social History of Medicine. You just have to register and activate your subscription by going to http://www.oxfordjournals.org/register and registering as a new user by using your subscriber number which you will find printed on the packaging of the print copy of the journal
  • The Gazette with reports and information about professional events within as well as outside the Society.
  • Reduced registration fees at SSHM conferences.
  • Some bursaries are available for student members on request.
  • The Society awards The Roy Porter Student Essay Prize of £500 every year to the best student essay submitted to a competition reserved for student members of the Society.
  • 30 per cent reduction off the price of books published in the Society's Routledge series (Studies in the Social History of Medicine). Download a Routledge Order Form for Members of the Society (PDF-file).
  • 20 per cent discount on Oxford University Press books. Further details of the full range of titles available, and to order at these discounted prices.
  • New -- 20 per cent reduction at Johns Hopkins University Press on:
    • David Cantor (ed.), Cancer in the Twentieth Century. For the UK order form, click here. For the US order form, click here.
  • Special Offer from Manchester University Press:
    • Peter Elmer (ed.), The Healing Arts: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800. RRP: £17.99, Discount price: £14.39.
    • Deborah Brunton (ed.), Medicine Transformed: Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930. RRP: £17.99, Discount price: £14.39.
    • Deborah Brunton (ed.), Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930: A Source Book. RRP: £15.99, Discount price: £12.79.
    • Susan Broomhall, Women’s Medical Work in Early Modern France. RRP: £49.99, Discount price: £32.49.
  • 25 per cent reduction off the price of titles published in Ashgate's series History of Medicine in Context.
  • 25 per cent reduction off the price of selected recent Boydell & Brewer publications. For details and how to order, click here.
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