The AAHM is North America's oldest continuously functioning scholarly organization devoted to the study of all aspects of the history of the health professions, disease, public health, and related subjects. It is comprised of professional historians, practicing health professionals, librarians and archivists in the history of the health sciences, graduate students and students actively seeking professional degrees. Its annual meetings occur each spring and include, over a two and a half day period, a wealth of workshops, plenary sessions, and competitively peer-reviewed scholarly papers.
Online Abstract Submission will be
Available Here June 15th - September 15th
2008 Annual Meeting -
2008 AAHM Award Winners (click here)
Travel Grants
Future Meetings
AAHM IN 2009:
Cleveland, OH
Thursday, April 23 - Sunday, April 26, 2009
LAC: James M. Edmonson; Jonathan Sadowsky; Ginger Saha
AAHM IN 2010:
Rochester, MN
Thursday, April 29 - Sunday, May 2, 2010
LAC: Paul D. Scanlon
AAHM IN 2011:
Philadelphia, PA
Thursday, April 28 - Sunday, May 1, 2011
LAC: Ruth Schwartz Cowan; David Barnes
AAHM 2012:
TBA
Membership
Please Note: The Membership Directory has migrated to a site created by
the Johns Hopkins University Press. When you try to access the
Directory, you will be asked for a membership number. If you are already
a member and do not know that number, click on the link for "membership
number" and it will be emailed to you. You can also call the Johns
Hopkins University Press at: 800-548-1784. Or you can make your request
by e-mail: jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu
The membership list of the AAHM will be rented only to those publishers, organizations, conferences, and companies which directly promote medical history and publications on the subject. For further details please contact Johns Hopkins University Press (email jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu), or by mail to: AAHM, PO Box 19966, Baltimore, MD 21211-0966
NEW SECRETARY TREASURER
Chris Crenner, MD, PhD
Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine
University of Kansas Medical Center
MS 1025, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160
Email: AAHM@kumc.edu
Phone: 913-588-7040/7098
Fax: 913-588-7060
The Association's seal was designed in 1935 by Erwin Frank Faber (1866-1939) who was well known in the Philadelphia medical publishing world for his fine medical illustrations. The archives of the Association are maintained at the College of the Physicians of Philadelphia