The history of medicine and of human society of sickness and health is an ever widening window through which the present can view the past. The study of the ways in which societies over time and at war and in peace have defined and treated their 'sick', the changing content and status of medical expertise and ethics, and those episodic moments when the globe has been transformed by epidemic, panic and panacea is now an integral part of mainstream history. The field of medical history stretches from palaeopathology through to contemporary political debates over health care and genomics. And the medical humanities are now critically placed in most cultures at the meeting point of research and social policy. The 80th Anglo-American Conference of Historians will feature papers and panels across all periods and areas of the history of medicine. Topics which will be particularly welcome are medical practitioners and spaces, mental health, disability, old and new technologies of medicine, alternative medicine, public health, nutrition, ageing, addiction, death and disease.
Our plenary lecturers include David Arnold, Joanna Bourke, Samuel Cohn, Mary Fissell, Monica Green, Helen King and Paul Starr. The conference will also feature a postgraduate panel hosted by History Lab. Postgraduate students will be eligible for bursaries - for further information, please contact the Events Office at IHR.Events@sas.ac.uk.
Individual papers and/or panels of papers for the 2011 Anglo-American conference are invited from scholars at all levels from the UK and overseas. Proposals should be sent to IHR.Events@sas.ac.uk and should be submitted no later than Friday 10th December 2010. Successful applicants will be notified later that month.
Registrations will open on 1st March 2011, with early bird discounts available.
For further information, please visit www.history.ac.uk/aac2011 or contact Manjeet K Sambi at Manjeet.sambi@sas.ac.uk.
Anglo-American Programme Committee for 2011:
Julie Anderson, University of Kent
Virginia Berridge, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Martin Gorsky, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway
Chandak Sengoopta, Birkbeck College
Miles Taylor, Institute of Historical Research
Patrick Wallis, London School of Economics
