Past congresses (1920-2012)

This page presents all the ISHM Congresses since 1920 (with themes from 1930, and summary from 1998).

 
XLIII. Padova and Abano Terme (Italy), September 12-16, 2012
President Giorgio Zanchin
Scientific Committee Chair Giuseppe Armocida
Athanasios Diamandopoulos
General Secretary Raffaele De Caro
Main topics
  • The birth of modern medicine: the Padua University Medical School and the European Renaissance
  • The Republic of Venice and the fight against transmissible diseases in a global world
  • Past and future of thermal therapies: from Aponus to Abano and beyond
  • Plants, Animals and Minerals: the long journey towards present Pharmacoterapeutics
  Final program and summaries
XLII. Cairo (Egypt), October 10-13, 2010
President Prof. Nasser Kotby
Scientific Committee Chair Prof. Mostafa Shehata
General Secretary Prof. Hassan Wahba
Main topics
  • The Knowledge and Practice of Medicine in the Nile Valley from the 3rd Millennium B.C. to the 3rd Millennium A.D.
  • History of Medicine in Ancient Civilizations
  • Human Health, Disease, & the Environment in History
  • History of Medical Sciences
XLI. Mexico City-Puebla (Mexico), September 7-12, 2008
President Prof. Carlos VIESCA
Main topics
  • Medicine in the American Continent
  • Medicine in the XXth century second half
  • Methodological proposals for research on History of Medicine
  • History of therapeutics
  • History of Medical Ethics
XL. Budapest (Hungary), August 26-30, 2006
President E Sylvester VIZI
Congress Secretary Klara PAPP and József HONTI
Main topics
 
  • Influence of Hungary and Central Europe upon the Development of Medicine
  • Ancient Medicine
  • Renaissance
  • History of Medical Education and Medical Schools
  • History of Social Medicine
  • Semmelweis
  • History of Pharmaceutics
  • Methodology
  • Varia
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XXXIX. Bari-Metaponto (Italy), September 5-10, 2004
President Pr Alfredo MUSAJO-SOMMA
Congress Secretary G. ACETE
Main topics
 
  • Medicine and Archaeology
  • Medicine and Mathematics for Health Devices
  • The Scientific Method in Experimental Medicine
  • The Role of Placebo in Clinical Trial
  • Naval and Port Medicine
  • History of Medicine in Health Sciences Education
  • History of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery
  • History of Sports Medicine
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XXXVIII. Turkey, Istanbul September 1-6, 2002
President N. SARI
General Secretaries Y. I. ULMAN
Themes
  • Reappraisal of Medieval Medicine
  • History of Medical Philosophy, Health Politics, Legislation and Institutionalization
  • Medicine in the Near East Through History, with Emphasis on Famous Anatolian Physicians, Surgeons and Pharmacists
  • The Relation Between the Turkish Medicine and the Medicine of the Eastern and Western Worlds in the Past
  • Historical Sources of the Complementary Medicine
  • Varia
Programm Summary
XXXVII. USA, Galveston (Texas) September 10-15, 2000
President Ch. R. BURNS
General Secretaries L. J. WYGANT
Themes
  • Development of Clinical Specialities in 20e Century Medicine
  • Changing Patterns of Health Care : Relationships between the USA and Others Countries
  • Images of Healers and Healing in Art and Popular Literature
  • Teaching Medical History: Past, Present, Future
  • Varia
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XXXVI. Tunisia-Tunis, Carthage September 6-11, 1998
President S. AMMAR
General Secretaries R. MABROUK
A. DHIEB
H. ESSADAM
R. JAZI
M. ZITOUNA
Themes
  • Arab-Islamic medicine.
  • Public Health.
  • Teaching.
  • Medical ethics.
  • Greco-Latin medicine.
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XXXV. Greece-Cos September 2-8, 1996
President S.G. MARKETOS
General Secretary A. DIAMANDOPOULOS
Themes
  • Origins and influences 0f Hippocratic medicine.
  • History of hospitals.
  • The School of Alexandria.
  • The types of medicines of ancient civilizations.
  • Women in the health sciences.
XXXIV. Great Britain-Glasgow September 4-8, 1994
President J. BLAIR
General Secretary E. ROSE, J. SIMPSON
Themes
  • History 0f antisepsis.
  • History of Scottish medicine.
  • Dentistry
  • Public health and general medicine.
XXXIII. Spain-Granada September 1-6, 1992
Presidents J.L. CARRILLO MARTOS
G. OLAGUE DE ROS
General Secretary E. SANTAMARIA LOZANO
Themes
  • Relationships between European and American Medicine through the discovery 0f America.
  • The diffusion of Hispano-Arabic and Hispano-Judaic medicine in North Africa and in the Eastern Mediterranean since 1492.
  • The relationship between health and the urban environment.
XXXII. Belgium-Antwerp September 3-7, 1990
President J.P. TRICOT
General Secretary  T. APPELBOOM, R. VAN HEE
Themes
  • Medicine, magic and religion.
  • Medicine of the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • The medical book.
  • Medicine and art.
  • Tropical medicine.
  • Psychiatry obstetrics, ORL/ENT medicine.
XXXI. Italy-Bologna August 30-September 4, 1988
President R.A. BERNABEO
General Secretary S. ARIETI
C. BRILLANTE
O. GALEAZZI
D. LIPPI
B. PISTACHIO
Themes
  • The Bologna School of Medicine.
  • Evolution of anatomical-functional, physio-pathological and clinical knowledge of the cardiovascular system.
  • Neurology and psychiatry: clinical and social evolution.
  • Odontology and orthodontics.
  • Maxillo-facial surgery and aesthetic surgery: technical-methodological evolution.
XXX. Germany-Düsseldorf August 31-September 5, 1986
President H. SCHADEWALDT
General Secretary H.H. OTTEN
Themes
  • History of maritime and tropical medicine.
  • Medicine and art.
  • Ethnomedicine.
  • History and relations among the major European schools of medicine.
XXIX. Egypt-Cairo December 26, 1984-January 1, 1985
President P. GHALIOUNGI
General Secretary P. SWEHA
Themes
  • Egyptian medicine up to the 3rd century of the Christian era. Islamic medicine and East-West relations.
  • Cardiology
  • Parasitic and infectious maladies.
XXVIII. France-Paris August 29- September 3, 1982
President J.C. SOURNIA
General Secretary R. RULLIERE
Themes
  • History of public health.
  • Communications in medicine.
  • History of therapeutics and medication.
XXVII. Spain-Barcelona August 31-September 6, 1980
Presidents A. CARDONER I PLANAS, F. CID
General Secretary J. DANON
Themes
  • History of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
  • The migration of Iberian medicine across the world.
  • History of translations of medical works.
  • The development of naval medicine worldwide.
XXVI. Bulgaria-Plovdiv August 20-25, 1978
President V. PAVLOVA
General Secretary S. ISRAEL
Themes
  • Medical relations between Bulgaria and the rest of the world across the ages.
  • Bulgarian medicine from its origins until our times.
  • Folk medicine.
  • History of military medicine.
XXV. Canada-Quebec August 21-28, 1976
President De la Broquerie FORTIER
General Secretary JACQUELINE de La RUE
Themes
  • The influence of European medicine on American medicine at the time of the independence of the United States.
  • American medicine.
  • The Middle Ages and medicine.
  • Popular medicine.
XXIV. Hungary-Budapest August 25-31, 1974
President E. SCHULTHEITZ
General Secretary J. ANTALL
Themes
  • The development of medicine from the 18th to the 20th century
  • The medical relations of Hungary and the Eastern European countries with other nations.
  • The history of pharmacy.
  • Ethnology and medical prehistory
XXIII. Great Britain-London September 2-9, 1972
President N. POYNTER
General Secretary D. GERAINT JAMES
Themes
  • History of the medical clinic.
  • History of prevention and health.
  • History of societies and of specialization in medicine.
  • Relations between British medicine and that of other nations.
  • Medicine and humanism.
  • History 0f dental medicine.
XXII. Romania-Bucharest, Constanza August 31- September 5, 1970
President V. BOLOGA
General Secretary M. BARIETY
Themes
  • The history of medical ethics.
  • The scientific value of medical folklore.
  • Medical relations between Romania and the other nations of the world, through the ages.
XXI. Italy-Sienna September 22-28, 1968
President A. PAZZINI
General Secretary L. STROPPIANA
Themes
  • The contribution of Tuscan medicine to the history of medicine in the Middle Ages.
  • Medicine and the arts during the Middle Ages.
  • Medical relations between Italy and other nations.
  • The evolution of medicine during the course of the past century.
  • The evolution of dental art.
XX. Germany- West Berlin September 22-27, 1966
President H. GOERKE
General Secretary H. MULLER-DIETZ
Themes
  • Medical relations between Germany and the other countries of the World.
  • History of the pathology of anatomy during the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • The development of teaching and research within the framework 0f the history of medicine.
  • Medicine and the Arts.
  • History of dentistry and 0f veterinary medicine.
XIX. Switzerland-Basel September 7-11, 1964
President H. BUESS
General Secretary R.H. BLASER
Themes
  • Commemoration of the 4th centenary 0f the death of Vesalius.
  • Medicine in antiquity and during the Middle Ages.
  • The history of therapeutics and psychiatry.
  • The contribution of Switzerland to the development of medicine.
XVIII. Poland-Warsaw, Krakow September 17-24, 1962
President S. KONOPKA
General Secretary
Themes
  • Medicine and humanism during past centuries.
  • Relations between the worlds of Polish and foreign medicine over the centuries.
  • Physicians who were known as artists and writers.
XVII. Greece-Athens , Cos September 4-14, 1960
President S. ŒCONOMOS
General Secretary B. MALAMOS
Themes
  • Hippocratic Medicine.
  • Exploration of the medicine of the School of Alexandria and of the Byzantine world.
XVI. France-Montpellier September 22-28, 1958
President J. TURCHINI
General Secretary  L. DULIEU
Themes
  • The School of Montpellier’s relations with the medical institutions 0f the various nations over the centuries.
  • History of the development of hospital institutions.
  • Medical iconography in the 17’ century.
  • The New World’s contribution to therapeutics.
XV. Spain-Madrid, Alcala September 22-29, 1956
President P. LAIN-ENTRALGO
General Secretary S. PALAFO
Themes
  • The Iberian peninsula and Arab medicine.
  • Medical relations between the Iberian peninsula and the other countries of Europe.
  • Medical iconography in the 16 century.
XIV. Italy-Rome, Salerno September 13-20, 1954
President A. PAZZINI
General Secretary M. GALEAZZI
Themes
  • Medicine, the human vector among peoples.
  • The contribution of medicine to the progress 0f civilization.
  • The School of Salerno and the pre-university period.
XIII. France-Nice, Cannes, Monaco September 7-15, 1952
President M. LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE
General Secretary F.A. SONDERVORST (B)
Themes
  • The precursors.
  • Medical relations between the Occident and Orient.
  • 0f empiricism in experimental medicine in the Mediterranean Basin.
  • The influence of the Schools of Salerno and Montpellier.
  • Medical iconography, and efforts in various countries to promote the teaching of medicine.
XII. Netherlands-Amsterdam August 14-21, 1950
(Section of the VIth International congress on the History of Sciences)
Presidents T.H. SCHLICHTING
M. LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE (F)
General Secretary FA. SONDERVORST (B)
Themes
  • The precursors.
  • Medical relations between the West and East.
  • Medical folklore.
XI. Yugoslavia-Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Dubrovnik September 1-13, 1938
President L. THALLER
General Secretary V. BAZALA
Themes
  • Mystical medical folklore.
  • Flora, fauna and minerals in popular medicine.
  • Teaching the history 0f medicine.
  • Medical history 0f the Yugoslavian countries.
  • History of malaria.
X. Spain-Madrid September 20-30, 1935
President G. MARANON Y POSADILLO
General Secretary FRANCISCO OLIVER y RUBIO
Themes
  • Medicine in Arabic.
  • Medicine in the Americas at the time of the discovery and during colonization.
  • Medical folklore.
IX. Romania-Bucharest September 10-18, 1932
President V. GOMOIU
General Secretary V. GOMOIU (Mme)
Themes
  • Evolution of Medicine in the Balkan Countries.
  • The Defense of Europe Against the Plague.
VIII. Italy-Rome September 22-27, 1930
President P. CAPPARONI
General Secretaries V. ROCCHI
G. CAPPARONI
A. PASSINI
Themes
  • Etruscan and Roman Medicine.
  • Medicine in the Middle Ages.
  • Relations between Italy and other European nations.
VII. Norway-Oslo August 14-19, 1928
(Sub-section of the Vth International Congress on Historical Sciences)
President J.J. TRICOT-ROYER (B)
General Secretaries M. LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE (F)
VI. Netherlands-Leiden, Amsterdam 18-25, 1927
President J.G. DE LINT
General Secretaries J.E. KROM
J.B. VAN GILS
V. Switzerland-Geneva July 20-25, 1925
President C. GREEN-CUMSTON
General Secretaries A. DE PEYER
E. THOMAS
IV. Belgium-Brussels April 9-15, 1923
(Sous-section du Ve congrès international des sciences historiques)
President J.J. TRICOT-ROYER
General Secretary M. LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE (F)
III. Great Britain-London July 17-22, 1922
President C. SINGER
General Secretary J.D. ROLLESTON
II. France-Paris July 1-7, 1921
President E. JEANSELME
P. MENETRIER
General Secretaries M. LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE
M. FOSSEYEUX
I. Belgium-Antwerp August 7-12, 1920
President J.J. TRICOT-ROYER
General Secretary A. VAN SCHEVENSTEEN