Society for the Social History of Medicine Summer Conference

?EMOTIONS, HEALTH & WELLBEING?
Queen Mary, University of London, 10-12 September 2012

The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major biannual,  
international, interdisciplinary conference. In 2012, it will be held  
in conjunction with the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the  
Emotions.

Plenary Speakers: 	Professor Mark Jackson (Exeter University)
			Professor Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London)
			Professor William Reddy (Duke University, USA)

The conference this year investigates the intimate relationship  
between the emotions and medicine. Proposals are invited for 20-minute  
papers, addressing any chronological period and from across the  
disciplines, including the medical humanities. Possible topics might  
include, but are not limited to:

?	Managing the passions
?	Disease, contagion and emotion
?	Death and mourning
?	Pathologies of emotion
?	The politics of wellbeing and happiness
?	The chemistry and physiology of emotion
?	Psychosomatic medicine and emotion


CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 16 January 2012

To submit a proposal for a 20-minute paper, or for a panel (3 papers,  
plus a panel rationale) please visit  
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/emotions/events The deadline for proposals is 16  
January 2012. A number of bursaries will be available for postgraduate  
speakers. Subsidized on-site childcare will be made available subject  
to demand. Discounted registration fees will be available to members  
of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and the European  
Association for the History of Medicine and Health. For all other  
enquiries, please email:

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Convenor: Professor Colin Jones
Organising Committee: Dr Thomas Dixon, Dr Fay Bound Alberti, Dr Rhodri  
Hayward, Professor Tilli Tansey, Dr Elena Carrera, Dr Tiffany  
Watt-Smith & (for SSHM) Dr Rosemary Wall.