Members of the Society are entitled to the following benefits

• Subscription to the journal Social History of Medicine with four issues per year.
• Access to the full online archive of Social History of Medicine. You just have to register and activate your subscription by going to http://www.oxfordjournals.org/register and registering as a new user by using your subscriber number which you will find printed on the packaging of the print copy of the journal.
• The Gazette with reports and information about professional events within as well as outside the Society.
• Conference Funding The Society for the Social History of Medicine awards financial assistance for conferences and workshops on the history of medicine. The applicant must be a member of the Society for the Social History of Medicine at the time of application.
• Reduced registration fees at SSHM conferences.
• Some bursaries are available for student members on request.
• The Society awards The Roy Porter Student Essay Prize of £500 every year to the best student essay submitted to a competition reserved for student members of the Society.
  • Details of the Prize Essay Competition
  • Prize-winning essays may be published in the Society’s journal Social History of Medicine, subject to the usual editorial and refereeing procedures
  • Winners of past competitions
• 30 per cent reduction off the price of books published in the Society’s Routledge series (Studies in the Social History of Medicine). Download a Routledge Order Form for Members of the Society (PDF-file).
• 20 per cent discount on Oxford University Press books. Further details of the full range of titles available, and to order at these discounted prices.
• 20 per cent reduction at Johns Hopkins University Press on:
  • David Cantor (ed.), Cancer in the Twentieth Century. For the UK order form, click here. For the US order form, click here.
• 25 per cent reduction off the price of selected recent Boydell & Brewer publications. For details and how to order, click here.

For the special benefits of membership to student and ECR members, please click here.

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