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The Gazette of the SSHM launched in 1990 to keep subscribers of Social History of Medicine informed about professional events within as well as outside the SSHM. It not only provides a means to com…

By Samuel Goldstone-Brady, Alexandra F Morris, Louise Bell, Kirstie Stage, and Alice Conibere. Across 2024 and 2025, the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub (UKDHHH) organised two networking eve…

Recipes through the Ages Friday, November 13, 2026 Join EMROC, Wellcome Collection, and theRoyal College of Physicians for a day of transcribing, virtual chatting, and live talks.  This year we are ex...

Abstract. The translation of smallpox inoculation from the Ottoman Empire to Britain is typically said to have depended upon social and medical luminaries—

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The nude is an art-historical stress test. As Lynda Nead tells us, it stands at the pinnacle of fine art and yet is always in danger of slipping into the unacceptable, the obscene. This dual identity ...

Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...

The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...

Illustration from an engraving attributed to Albrecht Dürer, in Sebastian Brant, La Nef des folz du monde (trans. Pierre Rivière & Jakob Locher), 1497 Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de...

Join us in Charleston, South Carolina! Call for Papers 2027 The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) invites abstracts for papers on the history of health, healing, and medicine to ...

Submit Psychedelic Culture 2027 speaker abstracts (150–250 words) for the March 12–13, 2027 conference by October 10th, 2026.

A one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum, focusing on the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history

Extended Call for Posters: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine September 25-26, 2026 Johns Hopkins University The Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University wil…

The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...

Through an examination of Katharina Kepler's witchcraft trial, Marco Ghione shows how ambiguous bodily symptoms were transformed into legal evidence of poisoning and witchcraft, and how her son, Johan...

The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...

A Transnational History of HIV/AIDS Denial: Origins, manifestations, and persistence, 1981 to the present

Examine the history of medicine in the Black Atlantic. Share research on health and healing in African and African diasporic contexts.