January 2014

Extended Deadline: Hannah Summer Studentships 2014

The executive of the CSHM would like to announce that the postmark deadline for the Hannah Summer Studentships has been extended to February 15, 2014. Please check the CSHM website for details and for an updated information page and application form. Applications received on the previously-posted application forms will still be accepted for this funding …

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Presentation: Psychiatric Nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1913-1917

Dr. Susan Lamb (SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of History & Classical Studies McGill University) Thursday, February 6, 2014 11:30 a.m. ? 1:30 p.m. University of Ottawa Pavillon Roger Guindon salle 2021 This paper explores the contours of psychiatric nursing practices within the burgeoning discipline of clinical psychiatry in the years before World War I. Like …

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CFP: Canadian Association for the History of Nursing/ Association Canadienne pour l’Histoire du Nursing

The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing /Association Canadienne pour l?Histoire du Nursing Annual Conference will be held June 13-15, 2014 at York University, Toronto, Canada. The theme for the 2014 conference is Local Work, Global Health and the Challenge of Transnational Nursing. The Abstract Committee is particularly interested in papers focusing on nursing …

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Survey on Research Access to Protected Records Containing Health Information About Individuals

As part of a joint effort to develop best practices for enabling access to special collections containing protected health information (PHI) and other types of access-protected (“restricted”) records, the Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, and the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions are …

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Call for Papers: Abortion: The Unfinished Revolution

Conference: August 7-8, 2014 at the University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada In recent years, there have been numerous attempts worldwide to limit women?s access to safe abortion. In 2012, an anti-abortion bill in the Canadian parliament that purportedly aimed to open a discussion on ?when life begins? was interpreted as an attack …

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Hannah Summer Studentships 2014 / Bourses d’ete du Hannah 2014

Three month summer studentships in the amount of $5,500 are available to undergraduate students registered in a Canadian university for a closely supervised project in the history of medicine. The funds are provided by Associated Medical Services Inc. The studentship is being administered in partnership with the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) …

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American Osler Society William B. Bean Student Research Award

Supporting Research by Medical Students in Medical History and Medical Humanities Candidates must be current students at accredited medical schools in the U.S. or Canada. The research award is $1,500. Successful applicants may be invited to present his/her research findings at a subsequent meeting of the American Osler Society (expenses paid, see below). The deadline …

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