Historians of health and medicine have lost a valued member with the death of Gina Feldberg on Sunday 10 July 2010, after a courageous four-year battle against multiple myeloma. Gina obtained her PhD in the history of science and medicine at Harvard University in the early 1980s. She then moved...
By Christopher Rutty and Sue Sullivan. This is Public Health: A Canadian History is a downloadable e-book. (http://cpha100.ca/history/history-e-book) Richly illustrated and interactive, this history explores public health from the time before Canada was a nation until 1986. Photos and illustrations bring the story of public health alive. The history is...
This award honors Jack D. Pressman, Ph.D., a distinguished historian of medicine and Associate Professor of the History of the Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the time of his early and unexpected death in June 1997. The award and stipend of $1,000 is given yearly...
The Open Doors project is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2007-2012) and involves 13 scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds in an innovative research project that examines the closure of long-stay mental hospitals in three Canadian jurisdictions: British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. During the...
AAHM
September 02, 2010The AAHM 2011 Annual Conference abstract submission deadline is 15 September 2010*** 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. The Association welcomes submissions on
Read MoreSituating Science: Cluster in the Humanist and Social Studies of Science
August 31, 2010CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: Situating Science is a SSHRC-funded Strategic Knowledge Cluster, mandated to build networks among scholars, Canadian and international, in the various disciplines engaged in the humanistic and social study of science and technology, and to engage the work of these scholars with the wider Canadian public. Situating
Read MoreCSHM Call for Papers
August 25, 2010The Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, joining with the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing, is issuing a call for papers for a joint conference at University of New Brunswick, from Saturday May 28 – Monday May 30, 2011. The theme of the 2011 Congress is Coasts
Read MoreCall for Papers: Cases and their Publics: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on the Case Study Genre
September 26, 2011 - September 28, 2011University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. The interdisciplinary and transnational character of the case study genre has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of the sexed self, sexual subjectivity and sexual pathologies. This workshop will investigate the case study genre and its relationship to
Read MoreScratching the Surface: The History of Skin, Its Diseases and Their Treatment
October 29, 2010 - October 30, 2010Scratching the Surface: The History of Skin, its Diseases and their Treatment The University of Birmingham (UK) 29-30 October 2010. An international conference hosted by the History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, and sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Skin and
Read MoreThe Fifth Asian Society for the History of Medicine Conference
October 07, 2010 - October 09, 2010The Asian Society for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce its Fifth Conference. It will take place October 7-9, 2010, in Suwon of South Korea, a historical city famous for the Hwaseong Fortress inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Asian Society for the History of Medicine
Read MoreCall for Papers: Body and Mind in the History of Medicine and Health
September 01, 2010 - September 04, 2010European Association for the History of Medicine and Health (EAHMH) 2011 Bi-annual Conference. Co-organized by the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities and by the University Medical Centre Utrecht. Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1-4 September 2011. Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2010. Confirmed keynote
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