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British Society for the History of Medicine
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BSHM Home Page - Affiliated Societies - Congresses
This page will contain information or links for events, related societies, tours, museums and libraries, which may be of interest to members of affiliated societies.
British Society for the History of Science is the main organisation in the British Isles working to bring together people with an interest in the histories of science, technology and medicine and their changing relationship with society.
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered inter-disciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice. Consequently, its membership consists of those interested in a variety of disciplines, including history, public health, demography, anthropology, sociology, social administration and health economics. It publishes the journal Social History of Medicine.
The Society is holding its 2008 Conference in Glasgow, Sept 3-5. The conference will embrace all historical perspectives on the broad issue of how health has been defined and by whom.
See Army Medical Services webpages for details of this museum in the Defence Medical Services Training Centre, Keogh Barracks, on Mytchett Place Road, Mytchett in Surrey.
www.medicalmuseums.org/ from The London Museums of Health and Medicine Group has links with information about 21 museums in London.
The new Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn
Fields, London has permanent galleries, temporary exhibitions, and guided tours.
Events include lectures.
In July 2008 - to 2nd August -
the painting Concourse (2) by Barbara Hepworth is on display as part of the NHS 60 exhibition in the Qvist Gallery at
the Hunterian Museum. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
For more information see RCS Home page and click the NHS 60 link.
Painted in the year in which the NHS was founded, Concourse (2) embodies the idea of social cohesion which underpinned the
social reforms of the post-war era. Hepworth later said that the harmonious composition of the painting stemmed from
the 'purpose and co-ordination' of the surgeons and nurses in the operating theatre.
The Thackray Museum in Leeds has displays which explain the ways in which people's lives have changed over the last 150 years as a result of improvements in public health, medicine and healthcare. There are exhibitions, several series of lectures, family activities and provision for school visits. Lectures include those of the Yorkshire Medical and Dental History Society.
This museum is housed at the University of Cardiff. See also an alternative link to their web page. The University's research collections also include a Historical Healthcare Book Collection and Milestones in Welsh Medicine, developed from an exhibition held in 2001 which celebrated the 70th Anniversary of the Welsh National School of Medicine. Other collections of medical history interest are the Bradford Hill Archive (Sir Austin Bradford Hill - statistician who worked alongside Sir Richard Doll and pioneered case control studies which established a link between cigarette smoking and cancer), the David Bainton Archive, and the Cochrane Archive (Archie Cochrane). The latter two worked in the MRC Epidemiology Research Unit and thus contributed to the foundation of evidence-based healthcare.
Medical History Museum at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School with display areas in hospital foyers includes material from Dundee Royal Infirmary, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital and Sunnyside Hospital near Montrose.
- offers a B.A. degree programme in medical history, and has a page of links to web resources for the history of medicine.
The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine
in Euston Road, London is open to the public, free of charge.
It runs MedHist,
a searchable catalogue of Internet sites and resources covering the history of medicine.
Copyright 2008 David Hawgood and the British Society for the History of Medicine
This page by David Hawgood
was amended 27 July 2008