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Call for Papers: EAHMH Conference 2011
The Call for Papers for the EAHMH 2011 conference has been issued. The conference will be on the general theme of 'Body and Mind in the History of Medicine and Health' and is to be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands 1-4 September 2011. The conference is co-organised by the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities and the University Medical Centre Utrecht. Confirmed key note speakers include Floris Cohen, Jacayln Duffin and Annemarie Mol. The deadline for proposals is 1 December 2010. For further details, see our conferences page, or download the call for papers here.
The Pieter van Foreest Student Prize
The Utrecht conference will also mark the introduction of the Pieter van Foreest Student Prize. A prize of 500 EUR (generously supported by the Dutch foundation Stichting Historia Medicinae) will be awarded to the best paper presented by a PhD student at the conference. For more information, click here.
Heidelberg Conference 2009
The EAHMH recently concluded another highly successful conference. The conference was on the theme 'Global and Local Specificities in the History of Medicine and Health' and took place in the beautiful city of Heidelberg, Germany in the excellent facilties of the University of Heidelberg. For a copy of the conference programme click here and for the abstracts of papers click here.
The conference was attended by over 100 delegates from 18 different countries. Excellent plenary lectures by Professor Hal Cook on the importance of acquaintances in the early modern medical world; Professor Marcos Cueto on the WHO and the implementation of primary care in Latin America and Africa; Professor Walter Bruchhausen on export and adaptation, import and integration in East African health care; and Professor Anne Hardy on travel, trade and the salmonellas, truly spanned the local and the global. There were also 21 individual sessions, with papers covering a huge range of topics, time periods and geographical locations. A packed programme was rounded off by a boat trip on the River Neckar which coincided with the September castle illuminations and fireworks. For a visitor's impression of the conference, read Professor Steven Palmer's blog on his Cultures of Health website.
Thanks to all those who participated in the conference, and particularly to the organisers Volker Roelcke (Giessen), Philipp Osten (Heidelberg), Wolfgang Eckart (Heidelberg) and the team of student helpers who made the conference run so smoothly.
New Scientific Board
The EAHMH General Assembly, held in September 2009 in Heidelberg, elected a new Scientific Board. Frank Huisman (Utrecht/Maastrict, The Netherlands) was elected as President of the Association, Jonathan Simon (Lyon, France) as Treasurer and Alex Mold (London, UK) as Secretary. Volker Rolecke (Giessen, Germany) took over the role of Past-President and the Scientific Board elected Fernando Salmon (Cantabria, Spain) as their Chair. Other members of the Scientific Board elected in Heidelberg were Astri Andresen (Bergen, Norway); Christian Bonah (Strasbourg, France); Iris Borowy (Rostock, Germany); Anne Hardy (London, UK); Hilary Marland (Warwick, UK) and Petr Svobodny (Prague, Czech Republic).
The new board wish to thank retiring Scientific Board members Virginia Berridge, Armelle Debru and Marie Nelson for all of their hard work and dedication to the association.