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Call for Papers, 2015 Annual Meeting

The American Association for the History of Medicine invites abstracts for papers in any area of medical history for its 88th annual meeting, to be held in New Haven, Connecticut, April 30–May 3, 2015. The Association welcomes papers on the history of health and healing; on the history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and on any aspect of the history of illness, disease, or public health. The Program Committee, led by co-chairs Ann Carmichael (carmicha@indiana.edu) and Stephen Inrig (Stephen.Inrig@msmc.la.edu), encourages single-paper proposals, and further welcomes proposals for creatively structured panels that expand the horizons of medical history and abstracts for luncheon workshops. Please contact one or both of the Program Committee co-chairs if you are planning a workshop or panel. The Program Committee will judge individual papers for workshops and panels on their own merits.

Limit presentations to twenty minutes. We do not require you to be members of AAHM before submitting an abstract, but you must join AAHM before registering for and presenting at the meeting. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press. We also encourage speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration for publication by the official journal of the AAHM, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system, accessible through the organization website at http://histmed.org/cfp2015. If you are unable to submit proposals online, send two paper copies of a onepage abstract (350 words maximum, not including learning objectives) to co-chair Ann Carmichael, Indiana University History Department, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405-7103.

Instructions: First, when proposing a historical argument, state your major claim, summarize the evidence supporting your claim, and state your major conclusion(s). When proposing a narrative, summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the conflict. Second, to facilitate approval of your paper for CME/CNE credit (such credit is vital to many AAHM members), please include three learning objectives with your abstracts. We don’t count these objectives toward the 350-word abstract limit, and we have listed some sample objectives on the meeting website you can use. Finally, remember to provide the following information on the same sheet as the abstract: your name, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, email address, present institutional affiliation, and academic degrees.

We must receive your abstract by September 26, 2014. We cannot accept emailed or faxed proposals. We will make your email address available, if your paper is accepted, unless you opt out of this by sending an email to Stephen Inrig (Stephen.Inrig@msmc.la.edu).