Emotions Health and Wellbeing (Society for the Social History of Medicine Conference, London, September 2012)

Research Summary: SSHM Conference 2012 — Emotions, Health, and Wellbeing

Event Type: International interdisciplinary academic conference

Theme: Emotions, Health, and Wellbeing — exploring historical and social dimensions of emotional life and health outcomes

Organizing Body: Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) in conjunction with Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions

Location & Dates: Queen Mary University of London, 10–12 September 2012

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

Scope: Biennial major conference with international and interdisciplinary participation across history, medicine, and emotional studies

Evidence Base: Academic scholarship integrating social history of medicine with historical emotions research to examine relationships between affect and wellbeing

Key Contribution: Advances understanding of how emotions historically shaped and continue to shape health practices and wellbeing frameworks

SSHM Conference 2012: Emotions, Health, and Wellbeing
Queen Mary University of London
10-12 September 2012.

The Society for the Social History of Medicine hosts a major, biennial, international, interdisciplinary conference. In 2012, it will be held in conjunction with the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, on the theme ‘Emotions, Health and Wellbeing’. The conference plenary speakers are Professor Mark Jackson (Exeter), Professor Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck) and Professor William Reddy (Duke). The conference programme is available here; registrations are here; more information is here.