The Society for Ancient Medicine invites submissions for a panel it will
propose for the 78th annual meeting of the American Association for the
History of Medicine, to be held in Birmingham, Alabama, 7 April - 10
April 2005 (conference details will be posted at:
<http://www.histmed.org/meetings.htm>).  Topics on any area of ancient
medicine - Eastern and Western – and its afterlife into later periods
are welcome, but of particular interest will be those having to do with
the social, economic, political, and cultural issues that affect medical
concepts and practices or are affected by them.

The AAHM requests that papers represent original work that is not
already published or in press, and hopes that contributors make their
texts available for consideration by the Bulletin of the History of
Medicine, their official journal.

Papers should be on a topic appropriate for a 20-minute talk.  If at all
possible, please submit your proposal as an e-mail attachment to Dr.
Julie Laskaris (jlaskari@richmond.edu); otherwise, please send eight
copies of your abstract to Dr. Laskaris at:  the Department of Classical
Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, 23173, USA.

Abstracts should clearly state findings and conclusions as well as
research questions.  They should also provide the following information
on the same sheet: name, preferred mailing address, work and home
telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation,
and academic degrees.  Abstracts should be a maximum of 350 words and
must be received by September 1, 2004.

For more information about SAM, and to gain access to other resources
for the study of ancient medicine in the Greco-Roman world, please visit
the new Medicina Antiqua website:
http://www.medicinaantiqua.org.uk/index.html