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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UPCOMING EVENT: Join us this week, for book launch: The Remarkable Greig Sisters: Pioneers in Medicine and Law", by Lola Matthews Thurs Oct 1st 6:30 - 7:30 Details: lnkd.in/dr3XqD93

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Health & History is an excellent and supportive journal for all things Australian medical history, so if you have a paper or an idea for a paper, take this as the sign to get it done, especially before the year slows down! Visit ANZSHM's website for more details.

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

UPCOMING EVENT: Join us this week, for an Australian Society of Anaesthetists' lecture: "History of Anaesthesia: Where have we come from?" Sunday 13 Sept 2026 9:00 AM 12:30 PM Details: asa.org.au/event/histor...

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: Abstract submissions for ANZSHM's upcoming 2027 Melbourne conference will open this December:

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

UPCOMING EVENT: Join us next week, for AMHS Lecture: Sir Richard Faull, "My unexpected journey in brain research" Wednesday 2 Sept 7PM - 8PM, In-person Details: www.amhs.co.nz/membership/o...

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

UPCOMING EVENT: Join us this week, for SAMHS Lecture: "Bacteriophages" with Peter Speck Thursday 27 August 2026, 6 PM - 7 PM In-person Details: www.samhs.org.au

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Last week, ANZSHM had the pleasure of hosting it's Biennial Ben Haneman Memorial Lecture, with the State Library of NSW. This year's lecture was presented by branch member, historian & advocate Professor Hans Pols, in special honor of the Library's 200th anniversary celebrations.

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

UPCOMING EVENT: Join us this week, for SAMHS Lecture: "Development of liver transplantation in South Australia", presented by Hugh Harley Thursday 23 July 2026, 6 PM - 7 PM, In-person Details: www.anzshm.au/events-calen...

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

UPCOMING EVENT: Join us this week, with Shawana Andrews, Sandra Eades and Fiona Stanley for the presentation of "First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture". Thursday 16 July 2026 5:30 pm 6:30 pm In-person at the medical history museum (Carlton, VIC)

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Join us later this month, with the QLD historical society for the presentation of "Dangerous to know: Qld’s asylums and early colonial doctors" by Duncan Richardson. Wednesday July 15th, 1-3pm Details: www.anzshm.au/events-calen...

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

BEN HANEMAN BIENNIAL LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENT: State Library of NSW Wed, 12 August 2026 6 PM - 7:30 PM Registration & details: lnkd.in/gWPACfcX The talk will be followed by drinks & refreshments This lecture is in honour of the Late Ben Haneman, physician and book collector.

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Join us later this month, with the authors of "Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium & the Taming of Bipolar Disorder" as the authors discuss the first biography of the ground breaking Australian doctor who discovered the drug that has changed so many lives. Details: lnkd.in/gVAkqcTi

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

ANZSHM's website update is up & running! Check it out today: www.anzshm.au

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Join us with former ANZSHM Vice President Peter Burke to discuss his recent book "From Harrods to Hackney: a surgical miscellany", exploring his journey in the medical & surgical fields, biographies of key figures & intersections between medicine & history. Online, Wednesday 22 April, 6pm (AEST).

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Reminder: ANZSHM's health & history online workshop is on today at 3pm AEDT - theres still time to sign up if you haven't yet!

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Ever feel there are too many interesting medical history articles but not enough time? Samantha Grey, ANZSHM's HDR/ECR representative is proposing a journal article reading group, where once a month the group tackles an article of interest and then meet up and discuss the paper!

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Online Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback? February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST) Zoom details: lnkd.in/g77JzGdg... Password: 534412 Health and History Journal: lnkd.in/gH8u3QJ6

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Couldn't make it to this year's ANZSHM conference? Take a look at some of the highlights from "Health History in the Making", attendee reflections, grant recipients & the winner of the biennial book prize!

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Our final online seminar for 2025 ⬇️ Next week, we have the wonderful Prof Alison Downham Moore and PhD candidate Michaela Malmberg presenting on "Women in Gynaecology" 🩺 When: Wednesday 17 December 7pm AEDT Where: email anzshm@anzshm.org.au for Zoom link #histmed #history #histSTM

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Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It is exciting to announce that my first book has just been published with Palgrave! Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨ link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #history #histofsex

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Pregnant Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern England

This book provides the first history of pregnant women’s sexuality in England from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

🌟 PhD Opportunity in History of Health 🌟 Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970 with Prof Catharine Coleborne Newcastle (or Sydney-based) Domestic students only Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗ More information ⬇️ www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear... #histSTM #histmed

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A Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950s to 1970s

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB: dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

That's a wrap on a week of wonderful medical history, at the ANZSHM 2025 Conference! Here's an image from fabulous keynote speaker Prof Jakelin Troy, telling us about the importance of flies in Indigenous global public health thinking! 🪰

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Historians of medicine in Sydney for ANZ Society for the History of Medicine conference gather with sleepy koala at Featherdale wildlife sanctuary: Kelly Burke, me, Michele Thompson, @hanspols.bsky.social, Marta Hanson @anzshm.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social #histmed

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Charmaine Robson @charmr.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Registrations are open for the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine 19th Biennial Conference in Sydney this July. Details with provisional program available here. www.anzshm2025.com @anzshm.bsky.social

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Tomorrow! Our first seminar for the year, with Paula Michaels 🎉

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Our colleagues of the William Osler Society of Australia & New Zealand are hosting a seminar "Harvey Cushing's Life of Sir William Osler: 1925-2025" on 16 April at 9pm AEST. Please email nadeemtdyn @outlook .com for the Zoom meeting link.

The image is a poster outlining details of the WOSANZ talk. It features a photograph of the biography of William Osler by Harvey Cushing, and a quote from the Medical Library Association April 1925 about Osler's life. The poster states: "Join us in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Harvey Cushing's Pulitzer-prize winning Life of Sir William Osler... The international meeting will convene online on Wednesday 16 April 2025 at 9pm Melbourne Time."

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Reminder - our first online seminar for the year will take place in two weeks! Please join us for this very exciting seminar by Assoc. Prof Paula Michaels.

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The (excellent) program and registration for History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) in Yogyakarta 24-27 June 2025 - now available on the website #histmed #histstm @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @anzshm.bsky.social

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History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) Conference

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗ Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

CFP: The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies, and Futures. I'm delighted to share the call for papers for the @hematopolitics.bsky.social symposium this June at the wonderful @thackraymuseum.bsky.social in Leeds! Please share widely!

The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies, and Futures 6 June 2025, Thackray Museum of Medicine (Leeds, UK) Keynote Speaker: Dr Jenny Bangham (University of Edinburgh) From early transfusion experiments and wartime blood banking to contemporary controversies over donor eligibility and the global plasma economy, blood has been a site of both solidarity and division. At the same time, new developments in synthetic blood, xenotransfusion, and bioengineered alternatives challenge existing frameworks of donation and transfusion, raising questions about the future of blood governance, ethics, and access. This symposium seeks to examine the historical, social, and political dimensions of blood donation and transfusion, focusing on how they have been governed, contested, and reimagined across time and space. We invite contributions from scholars in anthropology, history, sociology, medical humanities, Science and Technology Studies, bioethics, and related fields. This symposium is held in conjunction with the special exhibition Blood: Ties and Tensions at the Thackray Museum of Medicine and will feature a keynote lecture by Dr. Jenny Bangham, author of Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (2020, University of Chicago Press). Panellists will also have the opportunity to explore the exhibition, fostering further discussions around its curated themes. A limited number of bursaries will be available to support domestic travel for postgraduate, early career researchers, and independent scholars.

Some key questions we seek to explore: • How have the politics of blood donation and transfusion changed over time, and how do these shifts reflect broader transformations in biomedicine, nationalism, and social imaginaries? • How has the history of blood banking shaped knowledge and discourses on race and ethnicity, class and caste, gender, sex, sexuality, and citizenship? • How do infrastructures of blood banking and the commercialization of blood products reproduce or mitigate global health inequalities? • What ethical and political challenges emerge with new blood technologies, such as synthetic blood, xenotransfusion, and stem cell-based alternatives? • How do patients, donors, and medical professionals experience and navigate the evolving landscape of blood donation and transfusion? • How do artistic, literary, and activist engagements with blood expose or reimagine the politics of donation and transfusion? Potential topics include, but are not limited to: • Historical and contemporary shifts in donor eligibility and exclusion • National blood donation policies and their political and ethical stakes • Racialised and gendered discourses surrounding blood donation and transfusion • Ethics and governance of blood banking, plasma economies, and commercialised donation • Technological futures: synthetic blood, xenotransfusion, and regenerative medicine • Stigma and discrimination in blood donation and patients receiving transfusion • Political, aesthetic, and activist engagements with blood donation and transfusion in media, art, and literature To apply: Please submit a 200–300 word abstract and a brief bio (100-150 word) via the Submission Point by 25 April. We hope the symposium will lead to contributions to a special issue or edited volume. For any inquiries, please contact Dr Jieun Kim (j.e.kim@leeds.ac.uk) or Dr Claire Turner (c.o.turner@leeds.ac.uk).

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We are delighted to share that the latest issue of our journal, Health & History, is now online and in print: Special issue - "Reproductive Health and Women's Rights in Contemporary History" Congratulations to special editors Gayle and Linda and all the contributors 🎉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314

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Project MUSE - Health and History-Volume 26, Number 2, 2024

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

❗ANZSHM Online Seminar 2025 ❗ The first seminar for the year will take place on April 16, 7pm AEST The wonderful Paula Michaels will discuss miracle cures and US-Soviet relations 🌟 For the zoom link, please email anzshm@anzshm.org.au

The image is a poster advertising a talk for Paula Michaels' seminar on the history of "miracle cures, medical internationalism and US-Soviet relations, 1943-48". The poster states the talk occurs on 16 April at 7pm AEST and the zoom link is accessible via anzshm@anzshm.org.au

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗ Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Have you published a history of medicine or health book between 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024? Apply for the 2025 ANZSHM Biennial Book Prize 📖 Nominations are due 1 March More info on our website: www.anzshm.org.au/book-prize #history #historyofmedicine #historyofhealth

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the 2025 ANZSHM Conference - due tomorrow❗

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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

ANZSHM's next conference will be held in Sydney, 8-12 July 2025, with the theme ‘Health History in the Making’ 🍎 CFPs are due 28 February & we have a range of bursaries for ECR colleagues! Check out our conference website here: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

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