Members of the Society are entitled to the following benefits
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Subscription to the journal Social History of Medicine
with four issues per year.
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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.
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The Gazette
with reports
and information about professional events within as well as
outside the Society.
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Conference Funding
The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine. The applicant must be a member of the Society for the Social History of Medicine at the time of application.
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Reduced registration fees
at SSHM conferences.
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Some bursaries are available for student members
on request.
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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.
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25 per cent reduction
off the price of books published in the Society's Pickering & Chatto series (Studies in the Social History of Medicine). Orders can be placed by e-mail through: sales@pickeringchatto.co.
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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).
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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.
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20 per cent reduction at Johns Hopkins University Press on:
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David Cantor (ed.), Cancer in the Twentieth Century. For the UK order form, click here. For the US order form, click here.
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Special Offer from Manchester University Press:
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Peter Elmer (ed.), The Healing Arts: Health,
Disease and Society in Europe 1500-1800. RRP: £17.99, Discount price: £14.39.
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Deborah Brunton (ed.), Medicine
Transformed: Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930. RRP: £17.99, Discount price: £14.39.
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Deborah Brunton (ed.), Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930: A
Source Book. RRP: £15.99, Discount price: £12.79.
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Susan Broomhall, Women’s Medical Work in
Early Modern France. RRP: £49.99, Discount price: £32.49.
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25 per cent reduction
off the price of titles published in Ashgate's
series History
of Medicine in Context.
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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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40 per cent reduction
off the price of Kate Trant and Sue Usher, eds. Nurse: Past, Present and Future: The Making of Modern Nursing (Black Dog Publishing, 2010). To order, please email Jess Atikins with your address (quoting "SSHM deal"): jess@blackdogonline.com.
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