ANZSHM

That's a wrap on a week of wonderful medical history, at the ANZSHM 2025 Conference! Here's an image from fabulous keynote speaker Prof Jakelin Troy, telling us about the importance of flies in Indigenous global public health thinking! 🪰

Historians of medicine in Sydney for ANZ Society for the History of Medicine conference gather with sleepy koala at Featherdale wildlife sanctuary: Kelly Burke, me, Michele Thompson, @hanspols.bsky.social, Marta Hanson
@anzshm.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social #histmed

Registrations are open for the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine 19th Biennial Conference in Sydney this July. Details with provisional program available here. www.anzshm2025.com @anzshm.bsky.social

Tomorrow! Our first seminar for the year, with Paula Michaels 🎉

The image is a poster outlining details of the WOSANZ talk. It features a photograph of the biography of William Osler by Harvey Cushing, and a quote from the Medical Library Association April 1925 about Osler's life. The poster states: "Join us in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Harvey Cushing's Pulitzer-prize winning Life of Sir William Osler... The international meeting will convene online on Wednesday 16 April 2025 at 9pm Melbourne Time."

Our colleagues of the William Osler Society of Australia & New Zealand are hosting a seminar "Harvey Cushing's Life of Sir William Osler: 1925-2025" on 16 April at 9pm AEST.

Please email nadeemtdyn @outlook .com for the Zoom meeting link.

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Reminder - our first online seminar for the year will take place in two weeks! Please join us for this very exciting seminar by Assoc. Prof Paula Michaels.

The (excellent) program and registration for History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HoMSEA) in Yogyakarta 24-27 June 2025 - now available on the website
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❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗

Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website:

www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies, and Futures 6 June 2025, Thackray Museum of Medicine (Leeds, UK) Keynote Speaker: Dr Jenny Bangham (University of Edinburgh) From early transfusion experiments and wartime blood banking to contemporary controversies over donor eligibility and the global plasma economy, blood has been a site of both solidarity and division. At the same time, new developments in synthetic blood, xenotransfusion, and bioengineered alternatives challenge existing frameworks of donation and transfusion, raising questions about the future of blood governance, ethics, and access. This symposium seeks to examine the historical, social, and political dimensions of blood donation and transfusion, focusing on how they have been governed, contested, and reimagined across time and space. We invite contributions from scholars in anthropology, history, sociology, medical humanities, Science and Technology Studies, bioethics, and related fields. This symposium is held in conjunction with the special exhibition Blood: Ties and Tensions at the Thackray Museum of Medicine and will feature a keynote lecture by Dr. Jenny Bangham, author of Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics (2020, University of Chicago Press). Panellists will also have the opportunity to explore the exhibition, fostering further discussions around its curated themes. A limited number of bursaries will be available to support domestic travel for postgraduate, early career researchers, and independent scholars.

Some key questions we seek to explore: • How have the politics of blood donation and transfusion changed over time, and how do these shifts reflect broader transformations in biomedicine, nationalism, and social imaginaries? • How has the history of blood banking shaped knowledge and discourses on race and ethnicity, class and caste, gender, sex, sexuality, and citizenship? • How do infrastructures of blood banking and the commercialization of blood products reproduce or mitigate global health inequalities? • What ethical and political challenges emerge with new blood technologies, such as synthetic blood, xenotransfusion, and stem cell-based alternatives? • How do patients, donors, and medical professionals experience and navigate the evolving landscape of blood donation and transfusion? • How do artistic, literary, and activist engagements with blood expose or reimagine the politics of donation and transfusion? Potential topics include, but are not limited to: • Historical and contemporary shifts in donor eligibility and exclusion • National blood donation policies and their political and ethical stakes • Racialised and gendered discourses surrounding blood donation and transfusion • Ethics and governance of blood banking, plasma economies, and commercialised donation • Technological futures: synthetic blood, xenotransfusion, and regenerative medicine • Stigma and discrimination in blood donation and patients receiving transfusion • Political, aesthetic, and activist engagements with blood donation and transfusion in media, art, and literature To apply: Please submit a 200–300 word abstract and a brief bio (100-150 word) via the Submission Point by 25 April. We hope the symposium will lead to contributions to a special issue or edited volume. For any inquiries, please contact Dr Jieun Kim (j.e.kim@leeds.ac.uk) or Dr Claire Turner (c.o.turner@leeds.ac.uk).

CFP: The Politics of Blood Donation and Transfusion: Histories, Controversies, and Futures.

I'm delighted to share the call for papers for the @hematopolitics.bsky.social symposium this June at the wonderful @thackraymuseum.bsky.social in Leeds!

Please share widely!

We are delighted to share that the latest issue of our journal, Health & History, is now online and in print:

Special issue - "Reproductive Health and Women's Rights in Contemporary History"

Congratulations to special editors Gayle and Linda and all the contributors 🎉

muse.jhu.edu/issue/54314

Announcing the Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity King's & Dalhousie announce the creation of the Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity to explore medical humanities.

This looks promising! Wonderful to see reference to 'the indispensable tools of critical historical analysis'! And to 'health equity' and the deficiencies of Eurocentrism. Such a contrast to south of the border!

#histmed #histstm #STS @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social

The image is a poster advertising a talk for Paula Michaels' seminar on the history of "miracle cures, medical internationalism and US-Soviet relations, 1943-48". The poster states the talk occurs on 16 April at 7pm AEST and the zoom link is accessible via anzshm@anzshm.org.au

❗ANZSHM Online Seminar 2025 ❗

The first seminar for the year will take place on April 16, 7pm AEST

The wonderful Paula Michaels will discuss miracle cures and US-Soviet relations 🌟

For the zoom link, please email anzshm@anzshm.org.au

❗The CFP for the ANZSHM 2025 Conference has been extended ❗

Please submit abstracts by Friday 21st March via the conference website:

www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...

Have you published a history of medicine or health book between 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2024?

Apply for the 2025 ANZSHM Biennial Book Prize 📖

Nominations are due 1 March

More info on our website: www.anzshm.org.au/book-prize

#history #historyofmedicine #historyofhealth

A purple and green poster advertising the 2025 ANZSHM conference to be held in Sydney. It advises people to submit abstracts via the website anzshm2025.com

Don't forget to submit your abstracts for the 2025 ANZSHM Conference - due tomorrow❗

ANZSHM's next conference will be held in Sydney, 8-12 July 2025, with the theme ‘Health History in the Making’ 🍎

CFPs are due 28 February & we have a range of bursaries for ECR colleagues!

Check out our conference website here: www.anzshm2025.com/call-for-pap...