Health, Medicine, and Body

The Health, Medicine and Body Network is a group within the Social Science History Association. We are a diverse group of scholars primarily from the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, and sociology. Our network usually organizes between eight to ten sessions for the annual meeting of the SSHA, and we co-sponsor a number of additional sessions with other networks such as Criminal Justice and Legal History, Family History and Demography, Labor, Race and Ethnicity, and Women, Gender and Sexuality.

The interests of our network members are very broad. Some examples of themes explored in past conferences include medicine and the state; disability; international perspectives on midwifery; the health of prisoners and soldiers; medical practitioners in conflict zones; medical experimentation; the political economy of health; postcolonial biopolitics; global health and development; biologization of mental illness; illness, epidemics and inequality; deviance; crime; science and social engineering; and complimentary and alternative medicine.

While we prefer the submission of full sessions for the annual conference, we are happy to accept individual papers to create innovative panels. Please send submissions by mid February. We are also interested in colleagues who would like to volunteer to serve as a chair or discussant. If anyone is seeking colleagues working on a specific topic that could become a complete panel at the conference, please send queries to our network members via our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/624022180978022

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Announcements

SSHA Town Hall, Monday March 25

The SSHA officers invite SSHA members to attend a Zoom town hall on Monday March 25 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm EST to discuss and answer questions about the four Executive Committee motions passed on December 20, 2023, and February 8, 2024. The zoom link is here (Meeting ID: 895 1708 6578 | Password: 602250).

These motions concern our association journal, Social Science History, specifically editorial procedure guidelines, journal scope and the editor model. These motions have been posted on the SSHA website.

2024 Annual Conference Submissions Now Open

SSHA is now accepting paper and session submissions for the 2024 Annual Conference. Please visit our submission portal ssha2024.ssha.org to submit a paper or session proposal by March 22, 2024.

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SSHA Call for Papers

50th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association

Toronto, ON, Canada, October 31 - November 3, 2024.

Trust and Distrust of Historical Sources in the Digital Age

SSHA Call for Papers PDF


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