“Between Montemor-o-Novo and Granada, S. João de Deus, the hospital reformer and patron of nurses”

The Portuguese society for the History or Nursing (SPHE) announces the next international meeting, on March 9-10, 2023 “Between Montemor-o-Novo and Granada, S. João de Deus, the hospital reformer and patron of nurses” whose program is attached on https://sphenf.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/programa_VI_EIHE.pdf Founded in 2010, SPHE assumes as its main objective the development of knowledge in History of Nursing and Health Sciences through, … Read More

2nd International Congress on the History of Nursing Education (ICoHNE)

The European Association for the History of Nursing (EAHN) expresses support for the 2nd International Congress on the History of Nursing Education (ICoHNE), 6th Colloquium of the Brazilian Academy of Nursing History (ABRADHENF). We consider that this event, which will take place in the city of Rio de Janeiro from 14 to 16 December 2023, will foster important debates for … Read More

Solidarity and closeness to the people of Turkey and Syria

A magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria in the early hours of the morning of 6 February. More than 2,500 people are known to have lost their lives with thousands more injured. In the history of the countries that make up our association, earthquakes are all too often present and have always involved nurses who have been … Read More

The history we are writing – A step forward for a new beginning. 7th Congress Association of Nursing Technicians of the Clinical Center of Serbia. Belgrade, September 20-23, 2023.

It’s a pleasure to announce our Serbian colleagues’ 7th Congress. Here is the invitation: Dear colleagues, We are starting preparations for the 7th Congress with international participation that will be held in Belgrade, 21-23 September 2023. The theme of the congress is HISTORY OF NURSING OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA (history through practice, work of professional organizations, education, heroines of our time) … Read More

Happy Holidays and warm wishes for 2023!

Dear All, On behalf of Maria Eugenia Galiana, all the EAHN Committee and myself, we would like to wish you Happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year. Sending love and warm wishes to you and your family this holiday season. May the new year bring you prosperity, happiness, and success.

Call for Papers UKAHN Colloquium 2023

  Very pleased to announce call for papers for the UKAHN Colloquium 2023. Manchester 2022 was great, lets make Chichester on the 28th June even better! https://ukahn.org/ukahn-colloquium-2023/

Without memory… there is no history!

Awaiting the editorial release of the third volume, scheduled for spring 2023, Gerardo di Giammaria continues his work of popularizing the health history of Frosinone, an Italian city in the Lazio region. With his first volume on the history of the hospital of Frosinone, winner of the 2018 Fiuggi Storia Lazio Meridionale Prize, Gerardo had traced, with rigorous documentation, the … Read More

Sinergias

We are pleased to invite you to the opening of the Exhibition: Sinergias. Las enfermedades de la pobreza en la Europa mediterránea contemporánea (The diseases of poverty in contemporary Mediterranean Europe). The Exhibition will take place on Tuesday 13 December 2022 at 1 p.m. in the Aifos Hall of the University of Alicante (Edificio C of the Faculty of Philosophy … Read More

“Infermeres en la Memòria”: the journey of the itinerant exhibition continues.

From 12 December 2022 to 19 February 2023, the travelling exhibition on the nursing profession in Catalonia will be hosted in Lleida, coinciding with the events celebrating the centenary of the Official College of Nurses of the city – COILL. The exhibition, which reviews the history of nursing from the early XIII century until the creation of the nursing degree … Read More

“Infected comma”. A book on cholera in northern Italy in the 19th century written by Enrico Cafulli, Anna La Torre and Elisabetta Zanarotti Tiranini

  “Virgola infetta. Morbus Cholerae e contesto sociale nella Pianura Padana ”  is a book  that transports us to a dark age, to the Italian peninsula of the 19th century, where a disease rages and where humanity seem unable to cope, powerless in the face of this mysterious illness. There are those who clash, imputing the origin of the evil … Read More