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This page will contain advance news from affiliated societies and some related organisations. It will not be comprehensive as many societies have their own web pages with links from our Affiliated Societies page. In some cases the advance notices will be replaced by items in the BSHM Newsletter.

Belfast meeting on Sir Hans Sloane - 1st March 2012

Ulster Society for the History of Medicine has announced a joint meeting with the Ulster Medical Society, The Gary Love lecture: "Sir Hans Sloane - His Life and Legacy", by Dr Stanley Hawkins, MD FRCP, Consultant Neurologist, BHSCT and Reader in Clinical Neurology, QUB. It is on Thursday 1 March at 7.00pm. in the Ulster Medical Society Rooms in the Whitla Medical Building, near the Medical Biology Centre on the Lisburn Road, Belfast. For details see the events page of Ulster Medical Society, with more details at UMS programme (pdf file).

Royal Society of Medicine, History of Medicine Section

Meetings (except summer outing) are at the Society's premises at 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE and are followed by an optional dinner. Non-members can attend. For booking procedure see Section events page

7 March 2012 at 6 pm
Student meeting - the Norah Schuster student prizes
Closing date for submissions was 15 Sept 2011 - 2012 date to be advised. See details of competition.

Apothecaries - Friends of the Archives

Friends of the Archives of the Society of Apothecaries have invited their members and guests to a lecture
Warming up for the games:Baron Coubertin and the Olympic cult of Health by Professor Michael Biddiss
Lecture on Thursday 29th March 2012 at 6 p.m. at Apothecaries' Hall
For more details contact Dr Paul Simmons

Professor Biddiss was a keynote speaker at the 2011 Guildford Congress of BSHM

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