Calls for Papers
Call for Papers
2011 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine
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 the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome. In addition to single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Individuals wishing to present a paper must attend the meeting. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press. Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the Association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration by the Bulletin.
The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system. We encourage all applicants to use this convenient software. A link for submissions will be posted to the website at https://aahm.conference-services.net/directory.asp
If you are unable to submit proposals online, send eight copies of a one-page abstract (350 words maximum) to the Program Committee Chair, Susan E. Lederer, [selederer@wisc.edu], Dept of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, 1300 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706. (608.262.4195)
When proposing a historical argument, state the major claim, summarize the evidence supporting the claim, and state the major conclusion(s). When proposing a narrative, summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the conflict. Please provide the following information on the same sheet as the abstract: name, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation, and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September 2010.
E-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted.
Call for Papers
2011 CSHM/CAHN Annual Conference: Call for Papers
The 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 May 28 – May 30, 2011. The theme of the 2011 Congress is Coasts and Continents:
Exploring Peoples and Places. Abstracts on other topics are also welcome.
Please submit your abstract and one-page c.v. for consideration by 30 November 2010 to:
Erika Dyck, CSHM Program co-chair with Anne-Marie Arseneault (CAHN)
Department of History
9 Campus Drive
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5
erika.dyck@usask.ca
Abstracts must not exceed 350 words. Submissions by email are strongly encouraged. If
submitting abstracts by mail, please send one original and 3 copies, typed single-spaced on one sheet
of paper. The Committee will notify applicants of its decision by January 15, 2011.
N.B. If invited to present at the meeting, the author must undertake to provide a translation of the
abstract for the bilingual program book. All presenters must also be members of either CSHM or
CAHN.
Call for Papers
Cases and their Publics: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives on the Case Study Genre
University of Melbourne, Melbourne. Australia.
26th-28th, September 2011
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 different publics and audiences, from patients to social reformers, from moral crusaders to literary audiences.
We are interested not only in how case studies were used to communicate the findings of individual researchers to other members of their academic disciplines - and beyond that, to broader publics - but also in how in turn case studies were used by a range of publics and audiences to refute and dispute academic knowledge.
In particular, we seek papers that engage with the case study as a site of interdisciplinary negotiations and transnational influences and transferences, including the ways in which larger historical and geopolitical forces such as war, migration, translation, and internationalization shaped the case study genre.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Warwick Anderson, History, The University of Sydney
Professor Laura Doan, Cultural History and Sexuality Studies, University of Manchester
Professor Nico Pethes, Modern German Literature, University of Bonn, Germany
Please submit abstracts to Jana Verhoeven janav@unimelb.edu.au by the 13th of December 2010.
Call for Papers
June 24-26, 2011, Buffalo, NY. The 6th
International Conference on the History of Alcohol and Drugs:
“The Pub, the Street, and the Medicine Cabinet.”
Law and tradition divide alcohol, illicit drugs, and pharmaceuticals, but scholars—among others!—are well aware of their many connections. We are pleased to announce that, for the first time, the biennial conference of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society joins with the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy to welcome papers examining these divisions and linkages in all periods and geographical contexts. Though we welcome proposals on all aspects of alcohol and drug history, we especially encourage those that question boundaries and that extend conversations across lines of field and discipline. We also welcome papers from bioethicists and physicians as well as historians and other humanities and social-science scholars.
Papers may be considered for an edited volume based on the conference, that the University of Massachusetts Press has expressed an interest publishing.
Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to, the following:
• Origins of boundaries¬—between substances, classes (social, age, gender, ethnic, racial) of people authorized or forbidden to use them, and the conditions or mental states for which they are used.
• Nature and maintenance of boundaries¬—who establishes them; who enforces them and how; what logics (research, ethics, marketing) explain/justify them; how do they operate at multiple levels (culture, law, economics)?
• Impact/significance of boundaries¬—how do they affect different groups of people including users, prescribers, traffickers, regulators, reformers, and politicians; what purposes do they serve (public health, economic, bureaucratic, entrepreneurial); how well or poorly do they serve those purposes?
• Tensions, contradictions, challenges¬, and change over time—countervailing voices, opposition, boundary-crossers; changes in nature, extent, power, location of boundaries; causes of those changes.
The conference will take place in historic downtown Buffalo, New York, at the recently renovated Hyatt hotel and conference center. Buffalo’s temperate and lovely summers don’t make headlines like its winters, but the city makes the most of them. The classic downtown features historic architecture, a marina, minor league baseball, theater district, rejuvenated night life, excellent museums, and other low-cost amenities, all within walking distance.
Submit 300-word abstracts and brief CVs by December 20, 2010 at https://www.ubevents.org/event/history2011 (where a fuller version of this call for papers can also be found) or to David Herzberg, History Department, University at Buffalo, 546 Park Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260.
Call for Papers
SAHMS Thirteenth Annual Meeting
March 4-5, 2011, Memphis, TN
The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science (SAHMS) invites paper proposals for its thirteenth annual meeting on March 4-5, 2011, at the famous Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, sponsored by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Library.
SAHMS welcomes papers on the history of medicine and science, broadly construed to encompass historical, literary, anthropological, philosophical and sociological approaches to health care and science including race, disabilities and gender studies. Participants may propose individual papers of panels of several papers on a particular theme.
Each presenter is limited to 20 minutes, with additional time for questions and discussion. Please do not submit papers that have already been published, presented or scheduled for presentation at another meeting. All participants are responsible for their own travel expenses and must pay registration costs in advance of the meeting. Student travel awards are available each year; for more information, contact SAHMS President Michael Flannery at flannery@uab.edu.
To submit proposals, please visit the online submission site at http://library.uthsc.edu/sahms. Required elements for the online proposals include Title, Purpose Statement, Rationale and Significance, Methodology, Sources, Findings & Conclusions, and Three Learning Objectives. For questions or problems with the submission site, contact Richard Nollan (rnollan@uthsc.edu) or Lisa Pruitt (lpruitt@mtsu.edu).
Deadline: September 30, 2010
Call for Papers
Conference 2011 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
The Call for Papers for the EAHMH 2011 conference has been issued.
The conference will be on the general theme of 'Body and Mind in the
History of Medicine and Health' and is to be held in Utrecht, The
Netherlands 1-4 September 2011. The conference is co-organised by
the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences
and the Humanities and the University Medical Centre Utrecht.
Confirmed key note speakers include Floris Cohen, Jacalyn Duffin and
Annemarie Mol. The deadline for proposals is 1 December 2010. For
further details, got to Conferences and News at http://www.eahmh.net/
Call for Papers
The University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of History invites applications and nominations for the 2010 Virginia and Derrick Sherman Emerging Scholar Lecture. This year’s topic is: Plagues and Pandemics: Contagion and Epidemic in Global Historical Perspective.
Proposals may address, but are not limited to, histories of the spread of infectious disease, disease and war, disease and commerce, efforts to eradicate disease, public health policy, and programs to promote public hygiene. Applicants are encouraged to explore the social, cultural, political, gendered and/or economic histories of their topics. Submissions concerning all time periods and all geographic regions are welcome.
The Sherman Lecture provides a forum for an outstanding junior scholar (untenured assistant professor or researcher) to offer his or her perspective on a selected topic. The Sherman Scholar will meet with undergraduate and graduate students, share his or her expertise with faculty members in history and related fields, and be available to the local media. The centerpiece of the scholar’s visit will be the presentation of a major public address, which the university will subsequently publish. Applicants will be evaluated on the basis of scholarly accomplishment, relevance of the proposed talk to the year’s theme, and evidence of ability in speaking before a diverse audience. The scholar will receive an honorarium of $5,000. The lectureship will take place on the UNCW campus October 20-22.
Applicants should provide a title and brief description of the lecture they propose to deliver. Please send a letter of interest, current c.v., the names and e-mail addresses of three references, and a recent scholarly publication to Dr. Taylor Fain, Department of History, UNC Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-5957. We also welcome nominations that are accompanied by contact information. The deadline for submission is March 31, 2010. Finalists must be available for telephone interviews before May 31, 2010.
UNC Wilmington is an EEO/AA institution
Call for Papers
The University of Louisville School of Medicine and Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare will host a symposium in honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Flexner Report on 4 May 2010. Abraham Flexner was born and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and we are pleased to host this symposium in honor of one of the city’s distinguished citizens. We invite interested persons to send proposals for papers concerning any aspect of the life and work of Abraham Flexner and his Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada. Proposals for either a 15-minute platform presentation or poster should be described in one page and submitted to the symposium chairman:
M.S. Seyal, M.D.,
207 Sparks Avenue, Suite 104,
Jeffersonville, IN 47130
by 1 March 2010.
The symposium will include keynote addresses by Drs. Kenneth Ludmerer (Washington University – St. Louis), Todd Savitt (East Carolina University), and Senior Officials of the Association of the American Medical Colleges and the Association of American Colleges of Nursing. For meeting registration and hotel accommodations, please contact: Carmel Mackin at: cfmack01@louisville.edu.
Call for Abstracts
The 16th Annual Spring Meeting of the Anesthesia History Association will be held
April 8, 9, and 10, 2009, in Winston Salem, NC, at the Historical Brookstown Inn.
The abstracts requirements are as follows: twenty-minute papers on historical aspects of anesthesia, critical care medicine, and pain management. Abstracts on medical humanities or ethical topics that relate to the history of one or more of these broad areas are also invited. Abstracts should be no longer than one 8½” by 11” sheet of paper; text should be in 12-point font size. If possible, abstracts should indicate the research problem, sources used, methodological approach and may contain no more than ten references.
Abstracts may be submitted by regular mail or electronic mail (in plain text format). Disc submission in Word is also permitted. Abstracts submitted in electronic format may be made available to registrants in advance of the meeting and on the AHA website as decided by the Organizing Committee. ALL accepted abstracts will be included in material distributed to meeting registrants. Individuals who wish to organize a paper session around a theme should contact the committee as soon as possible.
The submission deadline for abstracts is February 20, 2010.
Send abstracts, inquiries etc., to:
Robert A. Strickland, M.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Blvd
Winston Salem, NC 27157-1009
rastrick@wfubmc.edu
1-336-716-2712 phone (Sherri Stockner)
1-336-716-9888 fax
Call for papers:
The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment
Durham University (UK), 6-7 July 2010 An interdisciplinary symposium for early career researchers, supported by the Society for the Social History of Medicine Keynote speaker: Dr. Peter Mitchell (Department of English, University of Wales, Lampeter)
At once an organ system, disciplinary target, metaphor, creation of God, cultural construction, 'self' and receptacle for the soul, it is not surprising that the body has fallen under the attention of historians of art, gender, thought, medicine, theatre and costume, and of literary scholars, archaeologists and historical sociologists and philosophers. This symposium will look at the human and human-like body on, and as, display, between c.1400 and c.1800. We will explore the notion, and reality, of the exposure of the inner and outer human form, and the representational, visual and material cultures of the body.
Possible topics might include (but are not limited to):
-Dissection, the medical 'gaze' and medical illustration
-Corporeality and the flesh in the visual, written and performing arts
-The body in religious iconography, hagiography and religious performance
-Gesture, kinesics and the expression of emotions
-Corporal punishment and bodily shaming
-Clothing, garments and cosmetics and their significance
Papers of 20 minutes are invited from postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers working on any part of the period. Studies looking at non-European countries are especially encouraged, as is flexibility in approaching the body as a visual, performative, aesthetic and representational entity. Please send abstracts (of no more than 300 words) to body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk by 30 January 2010. The symposium will be held immediately before the Society for the Social History of Medicine's annual conference 2010 (also at Durham University), to facilitate early career attendance at both events.
Please see the website www.bodyondisplay.org.uk
or email body.ondisplay@durham.ac.uk for more information.
Calls for Papers
The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions for its 2010 Conference 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives', to be held at Durham and Newcastle (UK), 8-11 July 2010, organised by the Northern Centre for the History of Medicine (NCHM).
Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2009
The organisers welcome proposals for 20-minute papers under the theme 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives'. We particularly encourage papers addressing questions such as:
* What processes have generated knowledge about the body, illness and health that has become authoritative in different societies?
* How have claims of medical expertise been justified vis à vis claims from other domains of social and cultural authority such as religion and law?
* What did it mean for medical practitioners in different cultural and social contexts to claim to be ethical as well as knowledgeable?
* How did they present themselves to the public?
* What kind of material, visual and textual representations of body, mind, health and disease have gained 'defining power' exerting influence on medical practice and research until today?
Submissions covering all periods (from Antiquity to the 21st Century) and all regions of the world are welcome.
In addition to individual papers, we seek proposals for panel sessions (with 3 papers), as well as suggestions for suitable chairpersons.
Abstracts of up to 250 words should include the title of the paper, information concerning the research question examined, the sources used and preliminary results. Please also include on the abstract your contact details (name, affiliation, e-mail-address).
All papers are to represent original work not already published.
Please send your proposal by 1 November 2009 to the NCHM (Email: conference@nchm.ac.uk). Decisions on papers will be made by January 2010.
We are also seeking proposals for posters (max 150 words) and would appreciate it if these could also be sent by 1 November 2009.
Key-note speakers: Professor Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, USA), Dr Tim Boon (Science Museum, London, UK), Professor Martha Few (University of Arizona, USA) and Professor Dr Thomas Lemke (Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Organising Committee: Philip van der Eijk (Newcastle University), Holger Maehle (Durham University), Cathy McClive (Durham University), Diana Paton (Newcastle University), Thomas Rütten (Newcastle University), and Lutz Sauerteig (Durham University)
For more information on the SSHM please see www.sshm.org. For more information on the NCHM, a collaboration of historians of medicine from Durham and Newcastle universities, please see www.nchm.ac.uk.
CALL FOR PAPERS
3rd International Conference on
The History of Medicine in Southeast Asia
(HOMSEA 2010)
To be held in Singapore
22-25 June 2010
to coincide with IAHA 2010 (International Association of Historians of Asia)
Organised by: Department of History, STS Research Cluster & Asia Research Institute (ARI) National University of Singapore With support from: The National University of Singapore The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine University College London (UCL) The Canada Research Chair in Health Care Pluralism Université de Montréal (Canada) The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS, The Netherlands)
Program Committee: Professor Harold Cook, Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine at UCL Professor Rethy Chhem, Medical University of Vienna/ Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm University Dr. Laurence Monnais, University of Montreal, CRC in Health Care Pluralism Dr. John DiMoia, National University of Singapore Dr. Liew Kai Khiun, National University of Singapore and other members of the LOC (Local Organizing Committee) All proposals on the subject of the history of medicine and health in Southeast Asia will be considered, but preference will be given to those on the theme of:
New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical Pluralism
The theme “New Medicines, Markets, and the Development of Medical Pluralism” intends to explore how both local and metropolitan actors in Southeast Asia have contributed historically to the growth and development of medical markets throughout the region, here implying both traditional pharmacopeia as well as the arrival of newer pharmaceuticals in colonial and post-colonial settings. With a time frame preceding formal colonial intervention in the region and ranging up to the present, with the creation of a local infrastructure for biomedical and biotech work, participants are encouraged to submit individual papers and panels with possible themes including:
Women and Health in Southeast Asia
Medical pluralism in Southeast Asia: A Historical Perspective
Medical markets in SEA
Southeast Asian Biopoleis (including the growth of biomedical infrastructure, Science Parks, and Local Production Facilities—identification of pharmacopoeia, drug development)
New Sources,
New Methodologies, New Historiographies
As the HOMSEA meeting will coincide with the IAHA 2010 meeting in Singapore, those interested in expanding the discussion either geographically—to include North East Asia and South Asia—chronologically, or methodologically are encouraged to apply to HOMSEA as well as the IAHA meeting to broaden the scope of discussion.
Please see the IAHA website at: http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/hist/iaha/index.htm
Please submit a one-page proposed abstract for a 20-minute talk, and a one-page CV by 30th December 2009
to: Laurence Monnais (laurence.monnais-rousselot@umontreal.ca)
Please note that it may be possible to subsidize some of the costs of participation for scholars from less wealthy countries.
For further information about funding and the general organization of the meeting, please contact: John DiMoia (hisjpd@nus.edu.sg)
Call for Papers
2010 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine
The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 83rd annual meeting, to be held in Rochester, Minnesota, April 29 through May 2, 2010. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome. In addition to single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Individuals wishing to present a paper must attend the meeting. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press. Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the Association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration by the Bulletin.
The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system. We encourage all applicants to use this convenient software. A link for submissions will be posted to the website at http://histmed.org.
If you are unable to submit proposals online, send eight copies of a one-page abstract (350 words maximum) to the
Program Committee Chair,
Keith Wailoo,
kwailoo@rci.rutgers.edu,
Institute for Health,
Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Rutgers University,
30 College Avenue,
New Brunswick,
NJ, 08901, (732) 932-8419.
When proposing a historical argument, state the major claim, summarize the evidence supporting the claim, and state the major conclusion(s). When proposing a narrative, summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the conflict. Please provide the following information on the same sheet as the abstract: name, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation, and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September 2009.
E-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted.
Each paper submission will need to be accompanied by three learning objectives.
See abstract examples
(click to download Michael Bliss's abstract)
(click to download Sandra Moss's abstract)
(click to download James R. Wright abstract)
Calls for Papers
The Sigerist Society for the History of Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine has started a student-run journal dedicated to the history of medicine, entitled Historia medicinae. The journal is open to all students of medical and dental students, residents/interns, health professions students (RN, PA, MPH, etc.) and also history students across the globe. and is presently seeking submissions and reviewers to take part in the first issue of Historia medicinae.
Our mission is to publish articles which cover a unique topic in the history of medicine from an innovative and informed perspective. The journal will cover all periods of medical history from classical and ancient medicine to historical developments in modern medicine. It will consist of short letters written on important individuals, inventions, and developments in medicine as well as longer analyses related to the history of medicine.
Any interested students should visit the website: http://www.medicinae.org/ or contact editor@medicinae.org with inqueries.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from all those interested in the history of medicine,
Andrew Degnan, Editor-in-chief, Historia medicinae
The Sigerist Society for the History of Medicine
The George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, DC, USA
Contact: editor@medicinae.org
Website: http://www.medicinae.org/