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News and Events Elin Wolfe and Dick Wolfe Call for Papers, 2009 Annual Meeting The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 82nd annual meeting, to be held in Cleveland, OH, 23–26 April 2009. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions from all eras and regions of the world are welcome. Besides single-paper proposals, the Program Committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Please alert the Program Committee Chair if you are planning a session proposal. Individual papers for these submissions will be judged on their own merits. Presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Individuals wishing to present a paper must attend the meeting. All papers must represent original work not already published or in press. Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the Association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration by the Bulletin. The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system. We encourage all applicants to use this convenient software. The Web site is: http:// histmed.org. If you are unable to submit proposals online, send eight copies of a one-page abstract (350 words maximum) to the Program Committee Chair, Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., University of Michigan, 100 Simpson Memorial Institute, 102 Observatory, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0725 (tel.: 734 647-6914; e-mail: howard@umich.edu). When proposing a historical argument, state the major claim, summarize the evidence supporting the claim, and state the major conclusion(s). When proposing a narrative, summarize the story, identify the major agents, and specify the conflict. Please provide the following information on the same sheet as the abstract: name, preferred mailing address, work and home telephone numbers, e-mail address, present institutional affiliation, and academic degrees. Abstracts must be received by 15 September 2008. E-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted. [End Page 421] In Memoriam Saul Benison, 1920–2006 Saul Benison, a pioneer oral historian and long-time member of the AAHM, died of pneumonia on 5 October 2006 at the age of 85. For several years prior, he had been treated for dementia and other medical problems in various health care institutions in Baltimore under the watchful eye of his nephew, Dr. Ken Berger. A native New Yorker, Saul graduated from Queens College in 1941 and spent part of the war years as a historian for the War Production Board. He went on to earn a Ph.D. under Allan Nevins's direction at Columbia University in 1953, during which time and after, he taught at CCNY, Sarah Lawrence College, and Long Island and Brandeis Universities. He also was employed by Columbia's Oral History Research Office, the American Jewish Tercentenary Committee, and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. While serving at the last named, he developed a lifelong interest in the history of polio and gradually made it his specialty. In 1969, Saul accepted an appointment as full professor in the history department of the University of Cincinnati (and later, a joint appointment in its School of Public Health). An incentive for him to leave the safety of his New York habitat was an opportunity to work on an oral history memoir with the renowned polio researcher, Albert Sabin. It was a happy choice, and he remained in Cincinnati until retirement in 1990. Although Saul's long-awaited work with Dr. Sabin was never published, his oral history interviews produced two other memoirs: one, by the Harvard social historian, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., in the 1950s and his own highly praised Tom Rivers, Reflections on a Life in Medicine and Science (1967). While working at Rockefeller before it had its own archive, Saul interviewed several other researchers and virologists there and arranged for their correspondence and papers to be transferred to the American Philosophical Society, where they are preserved to this day. Yet another of his oral histories was later edited and published by J. Gordon Scannell in 1990: Wanderjahr, The Education of a Surgeon, Edward D. Churchill, with a...