Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM)
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
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Reposting this query for the #HistMed lunchbreak crowd in the UK and the breakfast crowd across the Atlantic. Would be grateful for reposts.
A query for #HistMed colleagues: is anyone aware of good histories of ALS? I know Barron Lerner's chapter on Lou Gehrig in his book When Illness Goes Public (2006), but can't think of anything else.
February 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Reposting this query for the #HistMed lunchbreak crowd in the UK and the breakfast crowd across the Atlantic. Would be grateful for reposts.
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We're thrilled to have joined Bluesky 🎉
Follow us for updates on library resources, research support, open access, including LSHTM Press and highlights from our archives.
We're looking forward to connecting and sharing with you here soon! 🙌
Follow us for updates on library resources, research support, open access, including LSHTM Press and highlights from our archives.
We're looking forward to connecting and sharing with you here soon! 🙌
February 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
We're thrilled to have joined Bluesky 🎉
Follow us for updates on library resources, research support, open access, including LSHTM Press and highlights from our archives.
We're looking forward to connecting and sharing with you here soon! 🙌
Follow us for updates on library resources, research support, open access, including LSHTM Press and highlights from our archives.
We're looking forward to connecting and sharing with you here soon! 🙌
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TOMORROW! The next session of our seminar series will be a discussion of @davidedgerton.bsky.social manuscript of his upcoming book on the global history of production since 1900 (2027).
#histtech #histsci #histmed #histstm
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February 3, 2026 at 3:25 PM
TOMORROW! The next session of our seminar series will be a discussion of @davidedgerton.bsky.social manuscript of his upcoming book on the global history of production since 1900 (2027).
#histtech #histsci #histmed #histstm
@kingshistory.bsky.social
#histtech #histsci #histmed #histstm
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Come work with us!
Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.
The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.
Deadline 28 Feb 2026
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Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.
The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.
Deadline 28 Feb 2026
#histmed
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Gender Insight
Through co-creation and mixed methods research the projects will increase our understanding of the influence of biopsychosocial factors during hormonal transitions such as puberty and menopause, in th...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Come work with us!
Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.
The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.
Deadline 28 Feb 2026
#histmed
genderinsight.eu
Two fully funded 36-month PhD positions in the history of medicine at Charité Berlin.
The positions are part of the EU-funded Gender Insight network researching biopsychosocial aspects of diverse hormonal transitions.
Deadline 28 Feb 2026
#histmed
genderinsight.eu
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Excellent reviews of 2025 Hist of Med in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) meeting in Jogjakarta. Thanks Mai Thi My Vi, @ngamvaseenont.bsky.social, and Vivek Neelakantan. Congrats @hanspols.bsky.social, Prof Yayi, & team!
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Health and Medicine in the Colonial, Postcolonial and Global Worlds (10th History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) Conference)
Mai Thi My Vi (National Cheng Kung University); Krittapak Ngamvaseenont (University of Manchester); Dr Vivek Neelakantan Report 1 The tenth International Conference on the History of Medicine in So…
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January 31, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Excellent reviews of 2025 Hist of Med in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) meeting in Jogjakarta. Thanks Mai Thi My Vi, @ngamvaseenont.bsky.social, and Vivek Neelakantan. Congrats @hanspols.bsky.social, Prof Yayi, & team!
@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social #histmed #histstm @anzshm.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
Please join the friends and members of the Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social
#online
Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time)
The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants
For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact [email protected]
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#online
Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time)
The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants
For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact [email protected]
#histmed
Wellcome-funded Conference Series
Thanks to the generous funding of the Wellcome Trust, through the Society for the Social History of Medicine, in 2025-26 the MWHN will run a three-part series of events. Two fo these will be in-per…
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January 27, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Please join the friends and members of the Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social
#online
Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time)
The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants
For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact [email protected]
#histmed
#online
Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time)
The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants
For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact [email protected]
#histmed
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One week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6
Deadline: Sunday 1 February
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
Deadline: Sunday 1 February
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
SSHM invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in #histmed
🏆£500 first prize
Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025).
For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇
#histmed
🏆£500 first prize
Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025).
For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇
#histmed
Roy Porter Prize 2025-2026
Deadline for entries is 1 February 2026. Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Competition. Downl…
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January 26, 2026 at 2:18 PM
One week left to enter @sshmedicine.bsky.social Roy Porter Essay Prize 2025/6
Deadline: Sunday 1 February
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
Deadline: Sunday 1 February
#histmed #histSTM #medhumanities
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Great call for papers in #photohist and #histmed!
(Appel à contributions) Dedans/Dehors : photographier la vie en institution (1840-1980) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/01/phot... #histSTM
January 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Great call for papers in #photohist and #histmed!
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Following up with the first 2 adverts for our new @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project on the history of smallpox and measles. The ads are linked below along with a write-up on the project. Both are effectively a fully funded PhD position, for those so inclined. 1/4 bsky.app/profile/fanc...
I am very pleased and grateful to share this announcement of our recent award from the @wellcometrust.bsky.social for a project on history of smallpox and measles #histmed #histsci news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... The project will be based @exeter.ac.uk @cceh-u24.bsky.social led by ... 1/2
Exeter scholars secure significant research funding to investigate the early history of Smallpox and Measles
The early histories of smallpox and measles – and the insight they might offer to contemporary health and medicine – will be under the microscope of a new research project. Pustules, Palaeogenetics an...
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January 23, 2026 at 10:35 AM
Following up with the first 2 adverts for our new @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project on the history of smallpox and measles. The ads are linked below along with a write-up on the project. Both are effectively a fully funded PhD position, for those so inclined. 1/4 bsky.app/profile/fanc...
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Thanks to 101.9 CFRC for featuring our name change!
Listen below👇
#CaandianMuseumofHealthCare #Histmed
Listen below👇
#CaandianMuseumofHealthCare #Histmed
Museum of Health Care renamed as the Canadian Museum of Health Care
The Museum of Health Care is entering a new chapter, announcing it will now be known as the Canadian Museum of Health Care. Located in the Ann Baillie Building on the Kingston General Hospital site…
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January 23, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Thanks to 101.9 CFRC for featuring our name change!
Listen below👇
#CaandianMuseumofHealthCare #Histmed
Listen below👇
#CaandianMuseumofHealthCare #Histmed
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This Wednesday (28 Jan) we are back again reading Forman and Napier. Dm if you’d like to join! @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks
January 26, 2026 at 12:56 PM
This Wednesday (28 Jan) we are back again reading Forman and Napier. Dm if you’d like to join! @laurenkassell.bsky.social @hpscasebooks.bsky.social #skystorians #casebooks
📣New Issue 📣 With 9 articles (7 #OpenAccess) plus book reviews. Explores Greco-Roman medical tradition; medieval medical manuscripts; 19th c public health in Greek State; Japanese colonial policy for Ainu health; the women's health movement in India; and Leprosy control in colonial Nigeria
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Volume 38 Issue 4 | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic
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...
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January 26, 2026 at 8:03 AM
📣New Issue 📣 With 9 articles (7 #OpenAccess) plus book reviews. Explores Greco-Roman medical tradition; medieval medical manuscripts; 19th c public health in Greek State; Japanese colonial policy for Ainu health; the women's health movement in India; and Leprosy control in colonial Nigeria
#histmed
#histmed
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Working Group 1 seminar 23 January 2026 1pm CET
Known and trusted’: Treating patients in secret during the Irish War of Independence by Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University, Ireland) - zoom link via the news bulletin #EuroHistHealth #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians
Known and trusted’: Treating patients in secret during the Irish War of Independence by Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University, Ireland) - zoom link via the news bulletin #EuroHistHealth #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians
January 19, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Working Group 1 seminar 23 January 2026 1pm CET
Known and trusted’: Treating patients in secret during the Irish War of Independence by Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University, Ireland) - zoom link via the news bulletin #EuroHistHealth #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians
Known and trusted’: Treating patients in secret during the Irish War of Independence by Kevin Finnan (Dublin City University, Ireland) - zoom link via the news bulletin #EuroHistHealth #HistMed #MedHums #Skystorians
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PUBLICATION: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos has published a long, annotated bibliography on Byzantine medicine in Oxford Bibliographies!
This resource looks very useful for both teaching and research.
#histmed #history
This resource looks very useful for both teaching and research.
#histmed #history
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January 20, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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We're hosting a hybrid conference in July!
"Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes converging on public health history.
To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/5dMU4rNd8d5q...
"Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes converging on public health history.
To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/5dMU4rNd8d5q...
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 AM
SAHMS @histmedsouth.bsky.social update.
Event is now online
Deadline for proposals now 6 February 👇
#histmed #histSTM
Event is now online
Deadline for proposals now 6 February 👇
#histmed #histSTM
📢 UPDATE SAHMS 2026:
The event is now ONLINE, on April 9-10. This gives us the opportunity to showcase scholars who could not have been able to make the trip otherwise.
CFP is BACK ON! Please consider submitting an abstract: sahms.wildapricot.org/submit
Questions: [email protected]
The event is now ONLINE, on April 9-10. This gives us the opportunity to showcase scholars who could not have been able to make the trip otherwise.
CFP is BACK ON! Please consider submitting an abstract: sahms.wildapricot.org/submit
Questions: [email protected]
SAHMS - Call for Proposals
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January 21, 2026 at 11:31 AM
SAHMS @histmedsouth.bsky.social update.
Event is now online
Deadline for proposals now 6 February 👇
#histmed #histSTM
Event is now online
Deadline for proposals now 6 February 👇
#histmed #histSTM
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Tomorrow the #CFP closes for #HSTM2026. If you are working on any aspect of the #History of #Science #Technology #Medicine or #Philosophy then pop in an abstract and join us in #Limerick in April #AcademicChatter #ECR #Skystorians ##MedHums #HistMed #Tech #SciFi
#HSTM2026 #CFP Extended Now Due 22 Jan 👉 shorturl.at/2c6KW
👉 The History of Knowledge in Ireland: Where do we Stand Today?
The organisers seek papers asking fundamental questions about how knowledge is understood #Science #Tech #Medicine #Speirgorm #Skystorians #MedHums #HSTM #Ireland #STM
👉 The History of Knowledge in Ireland: Where do we Stand Today?
The organisers seek papers asking fundamental questions about how knowledge is understood #Science #Tech #Medicine #Speirgorm #Skystorians #MedHums #HSTM #Ireland #STM
January 21, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Tomorrow the #CFP closes for #HSTM2026. If you are working on any aspect of the #History of #Science #Technology #Medicine or #Philosophy then pop in an abstract and join us in #Limerick in April #AcademicChatter #ECR #Skystorians ##MedHums #HistMed #Tech #SciFi
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Early modern view on tobacco 'the smoke of it is held to be a great antidote against venom and pestilential diseases'
Find out more in our exhibition ‘Hooked’ www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...
Find out more in our exhibition ‘Hooked’ www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Early modern view on tobacco 'the smoke of it is held to be a great antidote against venom and pestilential diseases'
Find out more in our exhibition ‘Hooked’ www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...
Find out more in our exhibition ‘Hooked’ www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/hoo...
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Visit the exhibition to discover more about the wide range of topics in our library, the disasters its survived (including plague, theft, fire & bombs!) & much more. You can visit free during our opening hours & at special Late openings 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/visit-us
#BodyOfKnowledge #histmed
#BodyOfKnowledge #histmed
January 16, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Visit the exhibition to discover more about the wide range of topics in our library, the disasters its survived (including plague, theft, fire & bombs!) & much more. You can visit free during our opening hours & at special Late openings 👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/visit-us
#BodyOfKnowledge #histmed
#BodyOfKnowledge #histmed
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Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom
Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026
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#envhist #histmed #histnursing
2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom
Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026
niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/c...
#envhist #histmed #histnursing
Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
The American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN) invites submissions for a virtual conference on space, place, and patients from senior undergraduate students, graduate students, and early c...
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January 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Call for Papers - Space, Place, and Patients
2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom
Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026
niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/c...
#envhist #histmed #histnursing
2nd Annual Virtual Conference for Graduate Students and Early Career Researchers - @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social
February 19-21, 2026, via Zoom
Abstract Deadline: January 23, 2026
niche-canada.org/2026/01/15/c...
#envhist #histmed #histnursing
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Very excited for the @cshhh.bsky.social upcoming seminar series. #HistMed & #HistSex folks should come along if they can! Keep an eye on the page as we've to come! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...
January 16, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Very excited for the @cshhh.bsky.social upcoming seminar series. #HistMed & #HistSex folks should come along if they can! Keep an eye on the page as we've to come! www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/d...
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The Shryock Medal, given for the best unpublished paper written by a graduate student, is also still accepting nominations: histmed.org/shryock-medal/ #histmed
Shryock Medal
Shryock Medal Graduate students are invited to enter the Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The medal honors Richard Harrison Shryock (1893–1972), a pioneer among historians interested in the history of med...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The Shryock Medal, given for the best unpublished paper written by a graduate student, is also still accepting nominations: histmed.org/shryock-medal/ #histmed
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There's also still time to apply for the Osler Medal, which is awarded for the best essay in the history of medicine written by a medical student: histmed.org/william-osle... #histmed
William Osler Medal
William Osler Medal About the William Osler Medal Osler Medal Essay Contest, 2026 The William Osler Medal is awarded annually for the best-unpublished essay on a medical historical topic written b...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
There's also still time to apply for the Osler Medal, which is awarded for the best essay in the history of medicine written by a medical student: histmed.org/william-osle... #histmed
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There's still time to get your materials in for some AAHM prizes! If you're an early career scholar, consider applying for the Pressman-Burroughs Early Career Development award by Jan 31: histmed.org/pressman-bur... #histmed
Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award
Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career DevelopmentAward in 20th Century History of Medicine or Biomedical Sciences This award honor...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
There's still time to get your materials in for some AAHM prizes! If you're an early career scholar, consider applying for the Pressman-Burroughs Early Career Development award by Jan 31: histmed.org/pressman-bur... #histmed
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Update 14 Jan re: "The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6th -15th century)": Bologna, 17-19 June 2026, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submission has been extended to January 26, 2025, at 12:00 PM (GMT+1)." #histSTM #histmed
#MedievalSky #histSTM #histmed CFP: “The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice
(6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...
(6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...
Call for Papers: The Science of Natural Properties Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6 th -15 th century), Bologna, 17-19 June 2026
The conference will explore how theoretical and technical knowledge of natural properties was shaped through transmission, translation, and adaptation, as well as the impact of its practical applicati...
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January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM