Call for Papers
2010 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine
The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 83rd annual meeting, to be held in Rochester, Minnesota, April 29 through May 2, 2010. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome. In addition to single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Individuals wishing to present a paper must attend the meeting. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press. Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the Association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration by the Bulletin.
The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system. We encourage all applicants to use this convenient software. A link for submissions will be posted to the website at http://histmed.org.
If you are unable to submit proposals online, send eight copies of a one-page abstract (350 words maximum) to the
Program Committee Chair,
Keith Wailoo,
kwailoo@rci.rutgers.edu,
Institute for Health,
Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Rutgers University,
30 College Avenue,
New Brunswick,
NJ, 08901, (732) 932-8419.
When proposing a historical argument, state the major claim, summarize the evidence supporting the claim, and state the major conclusion(s). When proposing a narrative, summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the conflict. Please provide the following information on the same sheet as the abstract: name, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation, and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September 2009.
E-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted.
Each paper submission will need to be accompanied by three learning objectives.
See abstract examples
(click to download Michael Bliss's abstract)
(click to download Sandra Moss's abstract)
(click to download James R. Wright abstract)
Calls for Papers
The Sigerist Society for the History of Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine has started a student-run journal dedicated to the history of medicine, entitled Historia medicinae. The journal is open to all students of medical and dental students, residents/interns, health professions students (RN, PA, MPH, etc.) and also history students across the globe. and is presently seeking submissions and reviewers to take part in the first issue of Historia medicinae.
Our mission is to publish articles which cover a unique topic in the history of medicine from an innovative and informed perspective. The journal will cover all periods of medical history from classical and ancient medicine to historical developments in modern medicine. It will consist of short letters written on important individuals, inventions, and developments in medicine as well as longer analyses related to the history of medicine.
Any interested students should visit the website: http://www.medicinae.org/ or contact editor@medicinae.org with inqueries.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to hearing from all those interested in the history of medicine,
Andrew Degnan, Editor-in-chief, Historia medicinae
The Sigerist Society for the History of Medicine
The George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, DC, USA
Contact: editor@medicinae.org
Website: http://www.medicinae.org/
Calls for Paper
"Literature and Pathology"
University of California, Davis Medical Center (Sacramento, CA)
May 22-24, 2009
http://litpathcon.ucdavis.edu/
Deadline for submission: April 5th, 2009
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Bettyann Kevles (Yale, History). Author of "The Physical Sciences
and the PhysicianÆs Eye: Dissolving Disciplinary Boundaries," (2002); Naked
to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century (1997); Females of
the Species: Sex and Survival in the Animal Kingdom (1986).
Professor Mark Micale (University of Illinois, History). Author of
Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations (1995); the editor of
Beyond the Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychiatry (1993) and The
Mind of Modernism: Psychology, Medicine, and the Cultural Arts in Europe
and America (2004); and the co-editor of Discovering the History of
Psychiatry (1994), and Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in
the Modern Age, 1870-1930 (2002).
We invite paper proposals for the second annual conference on "Literature
and Pathology." This conference is a venue for productive interdisciplinary
discussions of the representations and narrations of pathology in
literature. We emphasize genuine interdisciplinarity, bringing the
perspectives of scholars from the sciences, the social sciences and the
humanities to bear on textual manifestations of illness. Texts under
scrutiny may include fiction, film, poetry, pathography, or cultural
documents such as case studies, political tracts or advertisements.
Questions to be addressed may include:
1. How do authors translate illness into written narrative?
2. What are the stakes of examining literary representations of pathology
from scientific as well as symbolic perspectives?
3. In what ways and to what ends do texts pathologize "the Other"?
4. How are texts, as well as practices of reading, depicted as
pathological/ contagious?
Possible paper topics include:
Altered states
Imaging the body
Food and pathology
Epidemics
Monstrosity
Drugs and cures
Pathography
Chronic pain
Biopolitics
Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted with a one page CV
either electronically in the body of an email or as an attachment in .doc
or .pdf format by April 5th, 2009 to jhowell@ucdavis.edu.
Calls for Paper
Special Issue: ‘A Hundred Years of Evolutionary Psychiatry (1872–1972)’
Guest editors: Pieter R. Adriaens & Andreas De Block
To be published in early 2010, this Special Issue seeks to explore the history of evolutionary accounts of mental disorders. For convenience, it will focus on the period 1872–1972 marked by the publication of Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and Tinbergen’s Early Childhood Autism – An Ethological Approach, respectively. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: the correspondence between Darwin and Sir James Crichton-Browne; the phylogenetic speculations of Freud and other psychoanalysts (e.g., Imre Hermann, Sandor Ferenczi and Carl Gustav Jung); John Bowlby’s attachment theory; postwar evolutionary attempts to make sense of the persistence of mental disorders (including the 1964 Nature paper on schizophrenia, written by Julian Huxley, Ernst Mayr, Abraham Hoffer and Humphry Osmond); and Tinbergen’s theories on childhood autism. Contributions on other ‘evolutionary psychiatrists’ – such as Paul Broca, Wilhelm Fliess, Havelock Ellis, Gilbert Hamilton, Harry Harlow and Paul D. Maclean – are also welcome. Papers should be historical in nature. Scholars are invited to send a 500-word proposal to Pieter R. Adriaens at Pieter.Adriaens@hiw.kuleuven.be by 1 November 2008. Final contributions should not exceed 7500 words inclusive of notes and references. The deadline for final submissions is 1 April 2009.