This symposium will be held on Saturday 18th September 2010 at the Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London.

We will explore the multi-faceted life of Florence Nightingale in this symposium, which is organised by the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London, and hosted by the Wellcome Collection. The life and work of Florence Nightingale will be discussed from a wide variety of angles including war studies, history of medicine, celebrity and the media, religion, statistics, travel and life writing.

The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 84th annual meeting, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 28 through May 1, 2011.

https://aahm.conference-services.net/directory.asp

The European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) 2011 Bi-annual Conference will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1-4 September 2011.

Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2010

Confirmed keynote speakers include: Floris Cohen, Jacalyn Duffin and Annemarie Mol

This conference will be held from 30th July-1st August 2012 at Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, UK.

The nineteenth century was the period during which disability was conceptualised, categorised, and defined. The industrial revolution, advances in medicine, the emergence of philanthropy and the growth of asylums all played their part in creating what today's society describes as the medical model of disability.