Social History of Medicine: Post of Co-Editor Vacancy

Social History of Medicine seeks a new co-editor to join Graham Mooney (co-editor), Pratik Chakrabarti (co-editor), and Alex Mold (book reviews editor). The new co-editor will succeed Ian Burney, who will step down at the end of 2013.

Social History of Medicine marks World Tuberculosis Day (24 March) with a Virtual Issue on tuberculosis. With an introduction by Professor Greta Jones, a selection of articles and book reviews are freely available for download from now until the end of May 2013.

The papers can be accessed here:

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/sochis/tuberculosis.html

Introduction
Greta Jones, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Ulster An introduction to this Social History of Medicine virtual issue

Articles

Simon Szreter

The winner of the Roy Porter Essay Prize 2011 is Bradley Matthys Moore, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at University of Wisconsin - Madison. The title of his prize-winning essay is: "For the People’s Health: Ideology, Medical Authority, and Hygienic Science in Communist Czechoslovakia, 1952-62". Congratulations, Bradley!!!

We are always interested in receiving contributions for The Gazette, which we send out with our journal. Conference reports and pictures (500 words maximum), advertisements for conferences, lectures, events or awards, links to blogs or digitization projects, general news in the field... -- all are welcome!

Please send your contributions, or questions about potential contributions, to Katherine Foxhall (foxhall@sshm.org).

The submission deadlines for 2013 are as follows:
16 January
16 April
16 July
15 October