Archival home wanted for material on 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Canada

Recently Library and Archives Canada received the following e-mail regarding archival material that is available about the 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic in Canada. Library and Archives Canada is unable to acquire this material because it is outside of our current acquisition criteria. Your cooperation in finding a home for this material would be greatly appreciated. […] Read more

Call For Papers ~ Food and Hospitals: An Historical Perspective

Call For Papers ~ Food and Hospitals: an historical perspective Brussels, Belgium, 26-27 April 2013 Hosted by the University of Birmingham (Brussels campus) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB), Sponsored by the Society For Social History of Medicine Food and drink were crucial to hospital and asylum expenditure from medieval to modern times, not […] Read more

Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, March 2012

The 14th annual meeting of the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science will be held in Atlanta, GA, March 2-3, 2012 on the campus of Emory University. This will be a very full two days of papers covering the broad scope of the history of medicine and science. The program and full […] Read more

Learning from Lister Conference, March 2012

Registration for the Learning from Lister Conference has now opened. For information on the program and how to register, click Conference Registration Read more

Sigerist Prize for the History of Medicine and Science 2012

As posted in H-SCI-MED-TECH: The Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Science invites applications for the Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize for the promotion of young scholars in the history of medicine and science. Deadline for application: March 15, 2012 The prize was founded in 1967 by Mr. and Mss. Guggenheim-Schnurr from Basel in order to award […] Read more

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Global History of Medicine Brown University

As posted on the H-SCI-MED-TECH list: Global History of Medicine Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012-14 Cogut Center for the Humanities and History Department Brown University The Cogut Center and Department of History at Brown University invite applications for a two-year Mellon post-doctoral fellowship in the Global History of Medicine. The field is defined as any sub-set […] Read more

Appel de communications pour le colloque "Institutions. Entre coercition et soins, XIXe et XXe siècles"

Appel de communications pour le colloque “Institutions. Entre coercition et soins, XIX e et XXe siècles”. 80e Congrès de l’ACFAS, Palais des congrès de Montréal, 9 et 10 mai 2012. Nous vous invitons à nous faire parvenir, d’ici le 1erfévrier 2012, le titre de votre communication accompagné d’un résumé de 250 mots. Sous la responsabilité de Véronique […] Read more

York STS now accepting applications for 2012-13

York STS now accepting applications for 2012-13 The Graduate Program in Science & Technology Studies (STS) at York University, Toronto, is now accepting applications for its MA (full and part-time) and PhD programs. We are a small, personable, and research-intensive program run by an enthusiastic faculty with interests drawn from across the human and social […] Read more

Call for Abstracts:Responding to the Call of the Sick: Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today

Call for Abstracts Responding to the Call of the Sick: Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today For up-t-date information on the conference, visit http://pmr.uchicago.edu/events/2012-conference The 2012 Conference on Medicine and Religion, sponsored by the Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago, will consider the relation of religion to the practice of medicine, […] Read more