Formation | 1965 |
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Founder | |
Founded at | Royal Society of Medicine |
Fields | History of medicine |
1st President | Douglas Guthrie |
Present President | Edward Wawrzynczak |
Immediate Past President | Mike Davidson |
Vice President | Hilary Morris |
Website | bshm |
The British Society for the History of Medicine (BSHM) is an umbrella organisation of History of medicine societies throughout the United Kingdom, with particular representation to the International Society for the History of Medicine. It has grown from the original four affiliated societies in 1965; the Section for the History of Medicine, The Royal Society of Medicine, London, Osler Club of London, Faculty of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy and the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, to twenty affiliated societies in 2018.
The society holds its congress biennially in centres around the UK, with the eponymous Poynter Lecture, named after librarian and medical historian F. N. L. Poynter, being held on alternate years in London.