Conferences organised by the SSHM in 2008

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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. 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. Click here for the programme.

Disability History: Theory and Practice. Organised by San Francisco State University's Institute on Disability, the Disability History Association, and the Disability History Group. Held on 31 July-3 August, 2008 in San Francisco.

Crossing Colonial Historiographies: Histories of Colonial and Indigenous Medicine in Transnational Perspective, 16-17 September 2008, St. Anne's College, Oxford. This conference aimed to provide a platform for exchange to scholars who are working on the history of medicines in different geographical regions in Asia, Africa, Austral-Pacific and the Americas and within the varied contexts of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Dutch and British colonialisms. In addition to appealing to researchers working on these various, seemingly clearly demarcated colonial and neo-colonial empires, contributions were invited from those who locate internal colonialism within the imperial metropoles (such as, for example, the Scottish Highlands, Canadian Arctic). Presentations on issues of transnational entanglements, ‘circulation’ of ideas and exchanges between different ways of healing within different colonial/medical contexts were particularly welcome.

Who Cared? Oral History, Caring, Health and Illness: Marking 60 Years of the National Health Service (University of Birmingham, 4-5 July): This was 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.

Imagining and Practicing Imperial and Colonial Medicine, 1870-1960. Held at the University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, January 10-12, 2008.