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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.
UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery has a programme of events. Contact janette.allotey@manchester.ac.uk.
University of Birmingham History of Medicine Unit has seminars and lectures open to all.
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 Pioneer Health Foundation exists to disseminate the ideas of the Peckham Experiment, a unique enquiry into the nature of health that took place between 1935 - 1950.
As part of its activities, the Foundation is launching the 'Mary Langman Prize'; an annual award of £500 for an essay that furthers the lessons learnt at the Pioneer Health Centre about the social, emotional and environmental determinants of health. See www.marylangmanprize.org.uk/ for details of the prize, and reading list about the Peckham Experiment, and information about Mary Langman. Personal Health Foundation website has further information about the Peckham Experiment.
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. Its website lists its own conferences and some by other organisations.
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 Hunterian Museum at the Royal college of Surgeons of England in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London holds a permanent collection of the anatomical and pathological specimens of the 18th century surgeon and anatomist John Hunter as well as displays illustrating the development of Surgery from the 16th century through to the present day. The museum has a rolling programme of temporary exhibitions, and offers free guided tours every Wednesday at 1pm. Events include lectures focusing on the collection and related surgical, medical and historical topics. The Learning Department of the museum offers free workshops for schools studying the GCSE History of Medicine through Time curriculum. More information about these and other museum queries can be answered by calling the museum on 020 7869 6560 or emailing museums@rcseng.ac.uk. Free and open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm.
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. 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 2009 David Hawgood and the British Society for the History of Medicine
This page by David Hawgood
was amended 21 Feb 2010