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Affiliated National, Local and Speciality History of Medicine Societies and Organisations

Keywords in society names and descriptions:
Army - Anaesthesia - Apothecaries - Bristol - Child Health - Dentistry - Diagnosis - Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) - Lindsay - Liverpool - Medical Equipment - Medical Sciences - Paediatrics - Pharmacy - Radiology - Royal (RSM) - Scottish - Suffolk - Ulster - Wales - Wellcome - West Sussex - Yorkshire

Society names in alphabetical order:
A - B - H - L - M - O - P - R - S - U - W - Y

Army Medical Services Museum Captain (Retd) PH Starling, Curator
Keogh Barracks
Ash Vale
Guildford GU12 5RQ
Email armymedicalmuseum@btinternet.com
Web www.ams-museum.org.uk/ .
Bristol Medico-Historical Society Dr Peter Carpenter
Kingswood CLDT
Hanham Road
Kingswood
Bristol BS15 8PQ
Phone 01454 862480, email drpetercarpenter@hotmail.com
Also see Report in BSHM News 2011.
British Society for the
History of ENT
Richard M Irving MD FRCS
Consultant ENT Surgeon
University Hospital Birmingham
Nuffield House
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TH
email rmi@globalnet.co.uk
Website www.historyofent.com/.
British Society for the History of Paediatrics and Child Health Mrs Karen Cooper,
Division of Developmental Medicine
Department of Child Health
University of Glasgow
Royal Hospital for Sick Children
Yorkhill, Glasgow, G3 8SJ, UK
Email: Karen.Cooper@glasgow.ac.uk
Web: http://www.gla.ac.uk/childhealth/BSHPCH.html
The Society is also a Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
British Society for the History of Pharmacy Mr Peter Homan
British Society for the History of Pharmacy
840 Melton Road
Thurmaston
Leicester LE4 8BN
tel: 0116 264 0083, fax: 0116 264 0141
email: BSHP@associationhq.org.uk
For details and events see http://www.bshp.org
British Society for the History of Radiology Dr Adrian Thomas FRCR
Department of Clinical Radiology
Bromley Hospital
Bromley
Kent BR2 9AJ
Details and activities will appear on http://www.bshr.org.uk/
See notice in BSHM News 2011
Historical Medical Equipment Society Dr Peter Mohr
Honorary secretary & treasurer HMES
tel 0161-707 1818
e-mail pmohr@doctors.org.uk
HMES website
History of Anaesthesia Society Dr Christopher Woollam
email christopher.woollam@ntlworld.com
Membership secretary Dr Adrian J Kuipers,
The Old School House, Nesscliffe, Nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1DB
e-mail A.J.K@btinternet.com
For details and events see www.histansoc.org.uk
See report in BSHM News 2011
History of Medicine Society
of Wales
Dr Margaret R Jones,
margaret.jones80@mac.com
See www.homsw.org.uk, and 2011 report linked from BSHM News 2011 Guests are welcome.
Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry Dr Brian Williams
Foxholme, 14 Howard Rd., Great Bookham, Surrey, KT234PW
Tel 01372457445, email brianwilliams14@btinternet.com
See report in BSHM News 2010
For details and events see British Dental Association - web page for the Lindsay Society
The British Dental Association has a museum in central London, open to all.
Liverpool Medical History
Society
Mrs Meg Parkes
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place
Liverpool L3 5QA
Tel: +44(0)151 705 3100

Email mm.parkes@talktalk.net
Subscription £15.00 per year, Student membership rate (excluding receipt of Medical Historian) £5.00 per year
Web page with notice of meetings www.lmi.org.uk/LiverpoolMedicalHistorySociety.aspx on Liverpool Medical Institute site .
Medical Sciences Historical
Society
Derwent Swaine
email swaine92@btinternet.com
A society for the history of the diagnostic medical sciences. For details see MSHS page on Institute of Biomedical Science site
Osler Club of London c/o The Library
Royal College of Physicians
11 St Andrews Place
London NW1 4LE
For contact details, news and events see http://www.osler.org.uk/
Royal Society of Medicine
- Section of the History
of Medicine
1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE
Section administrator, phone Tel: (+44) (0) 20 7290 2985, email history@rsm.ac.uk
For details and events see our Advance notices and http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/smthisto.php
See notice in BSHM News 2011
History of Medicine Publications from the the RSM include Journal of Medical Biography
The Scottish Society of
the History of Medicine
Dr Nigel Malcolm-Smith
13 Craiglea Drive
Edinburgh EH10 5PB
email nigel@malcolm-smith43.wanadoo.co.uk
For details and events see http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~sshm/
Suffolk Medical History Society Dr Ted Cockayne
Green Farm House
Woolpit
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk IP30 9RQ
email ECock86486@aol.com
See report in BSHM News 2011
Ulster Society for the History of Medicine Dr Ethna O'Gorman
Office of Archives, King Edward Building
Royal Victoria Hospital
Grosvenor Road
Belfast
BT12 6BL
Website was www.ushm.co.uk but not available at January 2012
The Society and the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland(CHMI) organised the 2009 BSHM Congress in Belfast
Also see Notice in BSHM News 2011 or advance notices for . joint lecture with the Ulster Medical Society, on the topic of Sir Hans Sloane, on 1st March 2012.
Wellcome Library Dr Simon Chaplin (Librarian)
Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE
Phone: 020 7611 8722
email: library@wellcome.ac.uk
Membership of the library is free for anyone with a research or study interest in the history and progress of medicine
For details see library.wellcome.ac.uk
E-registration is available in advance of visiting or to receive news
As well as extensive document collections the library has a large collection of images, very many of them already available in electronic form.
West Sussex History of Medicine Society Professor John Richardson (Membership Secretary)
email RichardsonDrJ@aol.com .
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London
(Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy)
The Administrative Secretary
Society of Apothecaries
Apothecaries' Hall
Black Friars Lane
London EC4V 6EJ
web pages http://www.apothecaries.org/ and Faculty of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Pharmacy

Friends of the Archives encourages members of the general public to join with them in helping raise funds for the conservation of the material in the archives that has suffered the ravages of time and adverse conditions. It also helps with the purchase of relevant acquisitions as necessary. Membership costs just £10 a year and Friends receive regular newsletters and access to the events held for them in the Hall and elsewhere.
To contact the Friends, please write to the Hall or email friends@apothecaries.org
See Advance notices for Friends' lecture on 29 March 2012 by Professor Michael Biddiss on "Warming up for the games:Baron Coubertin and the Olympic cult of Health"

Yorkshire Medical and Dental History Society Dr John Turney
35, The Avenue
Leeds, LS8 1JG
email john.turney35@googlemail.com
For details and events see www.leeds.ac.uk/ymdhs


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