Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM)

The ANZSHM is a learned Society whose terms of reference include the sharing of all aspects of the history of health – including the professions of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacology – and health themes within history itself. ANZSHM members are both amateur and professional historians, clinicians with an interest in the history of their disciplines and those with a general interest in health practice through the centuries. There is an emphasis on medicine and health in the Australia-Pacific region, but many members have major interests in European, Oriental, Middle Eastern and Classical Medicine as well.

The aim of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine is to promote the academic study of the history of health sciences within the Australia-Pacific region. The Society was founded in 1986 and is incorporated in Victoria. Membership of the society is open to anyone with an interest in the history of medicine.