How to join the SSHM

It is easy to join the Society for the Social History of Medicine. All you have to do is to subscribe at the appropriate membership rate to its Journal Social History of Medicine, published by Oxford University Press (OUP).

Membership forms are available from OUP. Just select your subscription category and click on the amount for a printable PDF order form. Don't worry that these forms are for the Journal rather than the Society: as long as you subscribe at the appropriate rate you will automatically join the SSHM. For a form please click here for the appropriate OUP website.

It usually takes about 4-6 weeks for OUP to process applications, after which you will receive a letter welcoming you to the SSHM.

SSHM membership rate 2007: Full members, £37.00 / US $70.00 / €56.00; students, £19.00 / US $36.00 / €29.00. OUP offers developing countries free (or greatly reduced) online access to the journal.

If you have any concerns about your application please contact the Membership Secretary Dr Lutz Sauerteig, Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University, Queen's Campus, Wolfson Research Institute, University Boulevard, Stockton on Tees TS17 6BH, United Kingdom.

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 register 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 (up to £150 for travel within the UK and up to £250 for travel outside the UK). For further details please click here!
  • Reduction up to 30 per cent on certain History of Medicine books from publisher such as Oxford University Press, Routledge, Manchester University Press, and Ashgate. For further details please click here!
  • 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


last update 14.12.2006 - webmaster