Call for Papers

Society for the Social History of Medicine Biennial Conference
Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

‘Resistance’

Tuesday 16 July – Friday 19 July 2024

Keynote Speakers
Professor Matthew Smith
Professor Alondra Nelson
Dr Martijn van der Meer

The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major biennial, international and interdisciplinary conference. In the years without an SSHM conference, we sponsor the biennial conference of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. The theme of our 2024 conference is ‘Resistance’. The conference will take place in hybrid format and is being organised by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The 2020s have been witness to a diverse range of forms of resistance and social protest internationally, most notably, the Black Lives Matter movement which has drawn further attention to issues of race inequality. Moreover, the last few years have seen the growth of health activist movements such as campaigns for reproductive rights, while in the UK, health workers such as nurses and junior doctors have engaged in industrial action around working conditions. Yet, conservative groups, for example, the anti-vaccination movement, have also manifested resistance against public health strategies. Taking a broad definition of the term ‘Resistance’, we invite papers that look at histories of health and resistance. These might may explore, but are not limited to, any of the following themes in any period or geographical location:

Medical practitioners and resistance
Health and social protest
Race and resistance
Resistance to medical authority or ideas
Challenges to medical or scientific practices
Resistance to medical treatment
Challenges to public health
Community activism
Drugs and resistance
Medicine, health and power
Gender, sexualities, and resistance
Alternative medicine as resistance
Reproductive rights and resistance

How to apply:

Proposals for papers, in a single Word document including a 250 word abstract and a short bio, should be sent to hass-resistance@strath.ac.uk by 2 February 2024 Please also indicate whether you plan to attend on campus or online. Proposals for panels of 3-4 papers are also welcome and should include the same information as well as a statement of the overall aims of the panel. Panel proposals may include a mix of speakers attending on campus and online. It should be noted, however, that proposing a panel is no guarantee of inclusion in the programme.

We particularly welcome papers or panels that are explicitly inclusive and embed diversity into our discussions.Registration for the conference will open in Spring 2024: please check back on the Society’s webpages for details of how to register.

Please note: SSHM bursaries are available for student/ECR participants, and details can be found at the Society’s web page

Enquiries about bursaries should be sent to the SSHM Executive Secretary, not the conference address.

The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University in Durham, N.C., is now accepting applications for our 2024-2025 research travel grant program: https://duke.is/rltg-2024

Research travel grants of up to $1500 are offered by a variety of Centers and Collections including the History of Medicine Collections.

Visit our website (https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/grants-and-fellowships) to learn details. Applications are accepted through Thursday, February 29, 2024, at 6:00 pm EST.

The Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine is excited to launch the new David J. Wolf, MD Visiting Research Scholar Program, which supports research using the onsite collections in the Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. The David J. Wolf, MD Visiting Research Scholar will receive up to a $5,000 stipend to support travel, lodging, food, and incidentals for a flexible period between January 1- December 31, 2024. Visit our website here to learn more about the program and how to apply by the October 31 deadline.

The Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics in the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (URSMD) seeks to recruit a faculty member (open rank) for a tenure eligible position in Health Humanities & Bioethics (focus on Humanities).

The University of Rochester was among the first medical schools to create a formal Division of Medical Humanities & Bioethics in 1984 as a natural outgrowth of the school’s signature biopsychosocial model to solidify the presence of the humanities in the medical school curriculum. In December 2021, the Division became a formal department of Health Humanities and Bioethics (HHBE) with the aim to become nationally recognized for active engagement and contributions to the advancement of ethical, just, and humanistic health care, and for education and training in health humanities and bioethics. The department is expanding the number of full-time faculty to achieve this vision.

The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary faculty group with training in the humanities, social sciences, ethics and law. The faculty engage in scholarship, clinical and community service, and the teaching of graduate students, medical students and other trainees in the health professions. The candidate will have a PhD in one of the humanities or social science disciplines.

Candidates must have an excellent record of scholarship. For those in the social sciences, qualitative and/or quantitative research skills and history of grant funding preferred but not required. Experience teaching in an academic health center preferred. We especially welcome faculty who bring an equity lens to their scholarship and teaching and who demonstrate a strong record of collaboration in scholarship and research.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach at least one course in the master’s program, with preference focused on a course related to the history of the body in science and medicine, or social justice and the body in science and medicine, or a course that offers a critical examination of diverse bodies in social/cultural contexts that reflects the candidate’s own academic training and interests. They will be expected to mentor several masters students in their capstone projects. They will also be expected to teach selectives in the medical school and to teach and mentor medical students who choose the Health Humanities – Bioethics Pathway.  At least 50% of effort devoted to scholarship.

Interested individuals should apply on-line to Job posting 246730 at http://www.rochester.edu/working/hr/jobs/

In addition, please submit a cover letter with CV to Christine_Donnelly@URMC.Rochester.edu

Applications will be reviewed beginning in August 2023.

The University of Rochester is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion to advance the University’s mission to Learn, Discover, Heal, Create – and Make the World Ever Better. In support of our values and those of our society, the University is committed to not discriminating on the basis of age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, military/veteran status, national origin, race, religion/creed, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship status, or any other status protected by law.  This commitment extends to the administration of our policies, admissions, employment, access, and recruitment of candidates from underrepresented populations, veterans, and persons with disabilities consistent with these values and government contractor Affirmative Action obligations.

The University of Rochester is responsive to the needs of dual career couples.

How To Apply

All applicants must apply online.

https://ps.its.rochester.edu/psc/PSApplyOnline/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=246730&PostingSeq=1

EOE Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

Congratulations to the 2023 AAHM award winners! The awards were presented at the AAHM Awards Ceremony during the annual meeting of the association held in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Congratulations to the 2023 Award Winners!

William Osler Medal: Audrey Duquette, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital at Northwestern University, “All Work and No Play: The History of Recess and its Role in Child Development”

Richard H. Shryock Medal: Yixue Yang, Department of History, University of California San Diego, “Revolutionary Youth: Myopia, Socialist Youth and Public Health Campaigns in China, 1960-1976”

Fielding H. Garrison Lecturer for 2023: Johanna Schoen, Professor of History, Rutgers University

J. Worth Estes Prize: Melissa Reynolds, “The Surugia of Nicolas Neesbett: Writing Medical Authority in Later Medieval England,” Social History of Medicine, 35, no. 1 (February 2022): 144–169.

Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in 20th Century History of Medicine or Biomedical Sciences Award: Antoine Johnson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University History of Medicine and Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, “More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, 1981-1996”

George Rosen Prize: Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology 

William H. Welch Medal: Yan Liu, Healing with Poisons (University of Washington, 2021)

Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award: Janet Golden

Congratulations to all our winners!