Liverpool Medical History Society

Founded in 1984, the Liverpool Medical History Society is affiliated to the British Society for the History of Medicine. Lecture meetings, held five times a year at the Liverpool Medical Institution, reflect the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of the Society's members whose interests include the histories of ancient medicine, general practice, occupational medicine, dentistry, nursing, clinical practice, medical education, veterinary science, social, military and art history, historical demography and social policy.

Liverpool Medical History Student Society (LiMHS) Committee Members

2011-2012 Programme

2011

4 October            Mrs Meg Parkes
                               Tins, Tubes and Tenacity: Inventive Medicine in Far East Prisoner of War Camps

2 November        Dr James Carmichael
                               ‘In the beginning there was Montserrat’: Liverpool Medicine in the Second World War

6 December        The Seventh Annual History of Medicine Medical Students’ Prize Evening
                               (6.00 p.m. start – booking essential: admin@lmi.org.uk)

2012

1 February           Professor Hilary Marland and Dr Catherine Cox (University of Warwick)
                               Itineraries of Insanity: Madness, Migration and the Irish in Lancashire, c.1850-1900

7 March               Dr Richard McKay (Kings College London)
                               Patient Zero: the early years of HIV and AIDS

18 April                 Professor Sir Iain Chalmers (The James Lind Initiative)
                               The Evolution of Controlled Trials
 

Refreshments from 5.00 pm, talks begin at 5.30 pm

Liverpool Medical Institution

114 Mount Pleasant (entrance at rear of Lloyds bank, by The Font)

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For more information, please contact the Honorary Secretary, Dr Sally Sheard, Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine, Division of Public Health and School of History, University of Liverpool, Whelan Building, Quadrangle, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK  Tel: (0)151 794 5593 Fax:(0)151 794 5588. Email: sheard@liv.ac.uk

The Bulletin of the Liverpool Medical History Society

The bulletin of the Society, Medical Historian, has been published annually since 1988. Speakers are invited to submit a written (referenced) version of their paper of up to 8,000 words for inclusion in the number issued at the end of the session.

The support of the Cohen bequest in producing the Bulletin is gratefully acknowledged.