SSHM Summer Meeting
The Summer Meeting of the SSHM this year is in Aberdeen, on Saturday 8th June, and further information is now attached.
As with the very successful event in 2022, this is a joint meeting with the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, being organised by our own local members Pragnesh Bhatt and Tom Scotland and being held in the Suttie Centre on the main Foresterhill campus. In the morning, starting at 11am, we have a series of short presentations from Aberdeen medical students, while the afternoon is devoted to talks by three eminent speakers on major figures in Aberdeen medical history and on a particular aspect of military gunshot injuries, all as detailed.
Registration for the meeting can be done either:
- Via the Eventbrite link on the flyer, and scrolling down to the button at bottom left – The Heritage of Medicine in NE Scotlandbetween the two logos. This permits payment and an indication of numbers but would not appear to allow for dietary options if required.
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- By informing me direct by email at the address on this message, indicating attendance, numbers, and dietary preferences, and at the same time paying the £30 registration fee, either by bank transfer to the SSHM account [Bank of Scotland, Sort code 80-11-30, Account No. 00646698] or by cheque (payable to SSHM) and given to me on the day.
Either way, the venue requires final numbers for catering purposes by Friday 31st May please.
I hope as many as possible will manage along, particularly from the north east, for what should be another very good day and a chance to encourage the medical students in their endeavours.
For those who are attending and possibly travelling to Aberdeen on the Friday, Pragnesh has offered to book a restaurant for dinner that evening and so, if interested, perhaps you would let me know in good time i.e. at least a few days beforehand.
For Council members, there will be no Council meeting on the Saturday morning as we usually have; instead, a Zoom meeting will be arranged for some time in the preceding week.
The date for the SSHM Autumn meeting is Saturday 16th November, once again at the Royal Scots Club in Edinburgh.
Two other matters which may be of interest to members are:
Commemorative event for Dr Maria Jadwiga Dlugolecka-Graham – Edinburgh, 20th June 2024
Organised by the University of Edinburgh this is an event to celebrate the life and achievements of Dr Maria Dlugolecka-Graham, one of our own members who died last year. She will be remembered particularly for her role in the Polish School of Medicine, a topic on which she addressed us in recent years.
Further information is provided on the second attachment which again has an Eventbrite link.
Society for the Social History of Medicine – Biennial Conference, Glasgow, 16th – 19th July 2024
The other ‘SSHM’ is having its biennial international conference in Glasgow in July, organised by the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare at the University of Strathclyde. Focusing on the theme of ‘Resistance’ it could well be of interest to members, whether in just attending or in even offering a paper. The link is:
Hoping to see you at one or more of these events.
Kind regards,
John Clark
Secretary, Scottish Society of the History of Medicine
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Future Meetings
Future SSHM events in 2024 are:
16th November (Saturday) – Autumn Meeting, Edinburgh