UPCOMING EVENT: Join us this week, for SAMHS Lecture: "Development of liver transplantation in South Australia", presented by Hugh Harley Thursday 23 July 2026, 6 PM - 7 PM, In-person Details: www.anzshm.au/events-calen...
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UPCOMING EVENT: Join us this week, with Shawana Andrews, Sandra Eades and Fiona Stanley for the presentation of "First Knowledges Health: Spirit, Country and Culture". Thursday 16 July 2026 5:30 pm 6:30 pm In-person at the medical history museum (Carlton, VIC)
Join us later this month, with the QLD historical society for the presentation of "Dangerous to know: Qld’s asylums and early colonial doctors" by Duncan Richardson. Wednesday July 15th, 1-3pm Details: www.anzshm.au/events-calen...
Looking forward to @hanspols.bsky.social public lecture at the State Library of NSW on the rise and decline of community mental health care in Australia. 6-7.30 pm August 12, 2026. Registration open. @anzshm.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social @aahpsss.bsky.social @sydsts.bsky.social
Ben Haneman Lecture 2026: Professor Hans Pols
How can our mental health system thrive? The 2026 Dr Ben Haneman Memorial Lecture by Professor Hans Pols explores the origins of community mental health in Australia.
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BEN HANEMAN BIENNIAL LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENT: State Library of NSW Wed, 12 August 2026 6 PM - 7:30 PM Registration & details: lnkd.in/gWPACfcX The talk will be followed by drinks & refreshments This lecture is in honour of the Late Ben Haneman, physician and book collector.
Join us later this month, with the authors of "Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium & the Taming of Bipolar Disorder" as the authors discuss the first biography of the ground breaking Australian doctor who discovered the drug that has changed so many lives. Details: lnkd.in/gVAkqcTi
Join us with former ANZSHM Vice President Peter Burke to discuss his recent book "From Harrods to Hackney: a surgical miscellany", exploring his journey in the medical & surgical fields, biographies of key figures & intersections between medicine & history. Online, Wednesday 22 April, 6pm (AEST).
Reminder: ANZSHM's health & history online workshop is on today at 3pm AEDT - theres still time to sign up if you haven't yet!
ANZSHM@anzshm.bsky.social · 6mo agoOnline Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback? February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST) Zoom details: lnkd.in/g77JzGdg... Password: 534412 Health and History Journal: lnkd.in/gH8u3QJ6
Ever feel there are too many interesting medical history articles but not enough time? Samantha Grey, ANZSHM's HDR/ECR representative is proposing a journal article reading group, where once a month the group tackles an article of interest and then meet up and discuss the paper!
Online Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback? February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST) Zoom details: lnkd.in/g77JzGdg... Password: 534412 Health and History Journal: lnkd.in/gH8u3QJ6
Couldn't make it to this year's ANZSHM conference? Take a look at some of the highlights from "Health History in the Making", attendee reflections, grant recipients & the winner of the biennial book prize!
It is exciting to announce that my first book has just been published with Palgrave! Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨ link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #history #histofsex
Pregnant Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern England
This book provides the first history of pregnant women’s sexuality in England from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.
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🌟 PhD Opportunity in History of Health 🌟 Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950 to 1970 with Prof Catharine Coleborne Newcastle (or Sydney-based) Domestic students only Applications close 30 January 2026 ❗ More information ⬇️ www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear... #histSTM #histmed
A Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950s to 1970s
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My latest article for Health and History @anzshm.bsky.social explores how emotion helped establish new hygienic norms in turn-of-the-century Sydney, revealing how disgust and pride motivated both compliance with and resistance to public health policies on plague and TB: dx.doi.org/10.1353/hah....
That's a wrap on a week of wonderful medical history, at the ANZSHM 2025 Conference! Here's an image from fabulous keynote speaker Prof Jakelin Troy, telling us about the importance of flies in Indigenous global public health thinking! 🪰
Historians of medicine in Sydney for ANZ Society for the History of Medicine conference gather with sleepy koala at Featherdale wildlife sanctuary: Kelly Burke, me, Michele Thompson, @hanspols.bsky.social, Marta Hanson @anzshm.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social #histmed
Registrations are open for the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine 19th Biennial Conference in Sydney this July. Details with provisional program available here. www.anzshm2025.com @anzshm.bsky.social
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Tomorrow! Our first seminar for the year, with Paula Michaels 🎉
ANZSHM@anzshm.bsky.social · last yr.Reminder - our first online seminar for the year will take place in two weeks! Please join us for this very exciting seminar by Assoc. Prof Paula Michaels.
Our colleagues of the William Osler Society of Australia & New Zealand are hosting a seminar "Harvey Cushing's Life of Sir William Osler: 1925-2025" on 16 April at 9pm AEST. Please email nadeemtdyn @outlook .com for the Zoom meeting link.
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Australian Historical Studies@ahsjournal.bsky.social · last yr.Charmaine Robson @charmr.bsky.social reviews 'Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague', by Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1031...
Reminder - our first online seminar for the year will take place in two weeks! Please join us for this very exciting seminar by Assoc. Prof Paula Michaels.
ANZSHM@anzshm.bsky.social · last yr.❗ANZSHM Online Seminar 2025 ❗ The first seminar for the year will take place on April 16, 7pm AEST The wonderful Paula Michaels will discuss miracle cures and US-Soviet relations 🌟 For the zoom link, please email anzshm@anzshm.org.au
The (excellent) program and registration for History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) in Yogyakarta 24-27 June 2025 - now available on the website #histmed #histstm @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @anzshm.bsky.social
History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) Conference
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❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗ Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...
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CFP: The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies, and Futures. I'm delighted to share the call for papers for the @hematopolitics.bsky.social symposium this June at the wonderful @thackraymuseum.bsky.social in Leeds! Please share widely!
We are delighted to share that the latest issue of our journal, Health & History, is now online and in print: Special issue - "Reproductive Health and Women's Rights in Contemporary History" Congratulations to special editors Gayle and Linda and all the contributors 🎉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314
Project MUSE - Health and History-Volume 26, Number 2, 2024
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This looks promising! Wonderful to see reference to 'the indispensable tools of critical historical analysis'! And to 'health equity' and the deficiencies of Eurocentrism. Such a contrast to south of the border! #histmed #histstm #STS @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social
Announcing the Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
King's & Dalhousie announce the creation of the Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity to explore medical humanities.
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❗ANZSHM Online Seminar 2025 ❗ The first seminar for the year will take place on April 16, 7pm AEST The wonderful Paula Michaels will discuss miracle cures and US-Soviet relations 🌟 For the zoom link, please email anzshm@anzshm.org.au