“Bads” in Healthcare Conference Programme Now Available

A conference organized in co-operation with the European Association for the History of Nursing and the European Journal for the History of Nursing and Nursing Ethics. The conference proposes to look closely at “bads” in the history of nursing, midwifery and other professions in healthcare. What shaped the perception of bad care? Who was held responsible

CFP: Material Cultures of Psychiatry

CFP: Material Cultures of Psychiatry Workshop Date: 3-4 May 2018, Hamburg Organisers: Dr Monika Ankele (Department for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf) and Prof. Benoît Majerus (Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg) Deadline: 15 December 2017 Languages: German, English In the past, our ideas ofpsychiatric hospitals and

American Association for the History of Nursing 2017 Conference

The 2017 AAHN Conference will be held September 7-9 in Fairport, NY.  Registration for the conference is now open.  More information including the conference programme is available here. Keynote speaker information is available here. This year’s pre-conference “Trends in Publishing Nursing History: Sources and Strategies to Enhance Scholarly Productivity” will be held on September 7th.  More

CFP: Marketplace, Power, Prestige: The Healthcare Professions’ Struggle for Recognition Developments, Conflicts, and Areas of Tension among Healthcare Professions in the Twentieth Century

Marketplace, Power, Prestige: The Healthcare Professions’ Struggle for Recognition Developments, Conflicts, and Areas of Tension among Healthcare Professions in the Twentieth Century Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, November 15 to 17, 2017 The differentiation of non-physician healthcare professions that occurred at the same time as the specialisation of medicine and the