History
''Medical History'' was founded in 1957, published by William Dawson, and was the official journal of four medical societies; the Cambridge University History of Medicine Society, the Norwegian Society for the History of Medicine, the Scottish Society of the History of Medicine, and the Osler Club of London. Its first editor was William John Bishop, the then librarian of the Wellcome Historical Medical Library. Following Bishop's death in 1961, Noël Poynter became the journal's editor. In 1965, ''Medical History'' became the official publication of the newly formed British Society for the History of Medicine (BSHM), an umbrella organisation encompassing the smaller societies. The last issue affiliated with the BSHM was in 1973. From 1974, the "BSHM" no longer appeared on the title page. Edwin Sisterton Clarke took over as editor following Poynter's retirement in 1973. In 1980, Vivian Nutton and W. F. Bynum jointly took over as editors. From 1 December 1980 the journal was administered by Science History Publications Ltd., in Buckinghamshire. The following year, a new cover was designed by Peter Voce. Vivian Nutton noted in 2007 that the journal had gone through four designs of its cover, several changes of its subtitle and "most striking" was the variations in the editorial board, described as "largely dormant and partly fictional" in the 1970s. In 2024, the editorial board still consisted of 45 members. In the 1980s, professional medical historians, women and people from abroad would replace the mainly retired medical men. In 2006 the journal became the official journal of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. In 2000 the medical historiaReferences
External links
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