Preliminary Programme

Showing: Health and Environment (all days)
Wed 24 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Thu 25 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

Fri 26 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 27 March
    8:30
    10:45
    14:15
    16:30

All days
Wednesday 24 March 2004 8:30
K-1 HEA04 Institutions / health care
Room K
Network: Health and Environment Chair: John Henderson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Barry Doyle : A System for a Healthy Town? Competition and Cooperation in Hospital Provision in Middlesbrough, England, 1918-48
John Stewart, Martin Powell & Alysa Levene : Cradle to the Grave: Municipal Medicine in Inter-War England.


Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:45
D-2 HEA01 Eugenics / biopolitics
Room D
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Regina Wecker
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Andres Reggiani : Eugenic Communities: Local Power, International Networks, and the Rise of Racial Hygiene in Argentina, 1930s-1940s.
Marta María Saade Granados : Revolutionary Eugenics: Mexico and its social reforms of applied sciences
Sachlav Stoler-Liss, Shifra Shvarts : 'The medical reasons, as you all know, are highly subjective'. Abortions, Doctors, and the Israeli Nation Building Process


Wednesday 24 March 2004 14:15
D-3 HEA02 State & Health
Room D
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Marie Nelson
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ida Blom : From Reglementation to Welfare Policies - Preventing Venereal Diseases 1890 - 1960 : A Scandinavian Perspective
Vera Hierholzer : Industrialisation and its impact on food quality
Aleck Ostry : The Beginning of Nutrition Policy in Canada in the 1920s
Paul Palecek, Drahomir Suchanek : Transforming the National Health Care after WWII: Czechoslovak Case/Class and Health
Enrique Perdiguero-Gil, Rosa Ballester & Rafael Ballester & Ramón Castejón : Films in institutional health education in Spain at the beginning of the XX Century


Thursday 25 March 2004 8:30
D-5 HEA03 Psychiatry / mental health
Room D
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Eric Engstrom
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Darcy Buerkle : Acting Out and Being Gone: Suicide in Early Psychoanalysis
Mahmoud Keyvanara : The contexts of suicide in Iranian society: domestic, socio-economic and medical contexts
Katarina Piuva : The Swedish Mental Health Campaign in 1969
Rakefet Zalashik : Psychiatry, Ethnicity and Immigration – The Case of Palestine 1920-1948


Thursday 25 March 2004 10:45
A-6 HEA13 Interpreting Health and the Body
Room A
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Anna Lundberg
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Fritz Dross : 'Gebessert am Leib, aber verschlechtert an der Seele' - The precarious debate on hospitals around 1800
Sonja Kinzler, M.A. : The Yoke of Sleep. A History of Scientific and Social Concepts of Sleep from the Enlightenment to the Early 20th Century
Kerstin Rehwinkel : Body, science and society. The 'apparent death'-discourse in the 18th and 19th century.


Thursday 25 March 2004 14:15
K-7 HEA08 Environment, space & health
Room K
Network: Health and Environment Chair: John Rogers
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Anna Lundberg : Treating Gender - Men, Women and the Reshaping of Gender Roles in Swedish Hospitals for the Mentally Ill at the turn of the Nineteenth Century
Raffaella Salvemini : Health and hygiene in Southern Italy in the Modern Age


Friday 26 March 2004 8:30
D-9 HEA05 Discourses on Health
Room D
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Philipp Sarasin
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Logie Barrow : Conflicts in English smallpox-vaccination, c.1898-1907.
Eva Johach : Gouverning the Organism - Models of innerorganismic 'health policies' in biomedical texts on cancer
Hans Neefs : The public emergence of sexual health. The national campaign against venereal disease during the interwar period in Belgium


Friday 26 March 2004 10:45
Q-10 HEA06 Health, science & race
Room R
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Constantin Goschler
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Beat Bächi : 'Morale Vitamin': The ethical way 'to get the most out of life'
Vittoria Serafini : Medical Body/ Social Body: Eugenics in Medical Theory and Practices Between the Two World Wars Italy.
Myriam Spörri : The 'purity' of the Volkskörper and the threat of 'mixed blood'
Alexander von Schwerin : Beyond Life and Death. Health Without Body in Interwar Genetics and the Eugenic Icon


Friday 26 March 2004 14.15
A-11 HEA11 Historical Perspectives on occupational health in Scotland
Room A
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Bernard Harris
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ronald Johnston : Breathless: Occupational health and safety in Scottish coalmining since 1945
Arthur McIvor : The war at work: occupational health and safety in World War Two in Scotland
David Walker : Chemical Workers and Occupational Health in Scotland, 1880-1920


L-11 MID09 Public Health - from Medieval to Early Modern Times
Room L
Networks: Health and Environment , Middle Ages Chair: Bruce Fetter
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn : Medical Aetiologies and Urban Space in an Early Modern Muslim Society: The Case of the Ottoman Capitals
Meri Vuohu : Healthy City and Countryside in the Renaissance Italy: Pisan Practices and Experiences


Friday 26 March 2004 16.30
P-12 HEA09 The patients perspective
Room P
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Anders Brändström
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Cornelia Brink : Have I been insane? Yes or no? The readers are asked for their opinion. Proofs of mental health in patients' stories around 1900
Sabina Roth : Among Booklets and Files: Therpeutic Experiences with Schroth's Nature Cure (1860-1880)
Mirjam Triendl : On Representation and Embodiment. Experiencing Difference and Identity in the Spas of Bohemia. 1890-1938.


Saturday 27 March 2004 8:30
D-13 HEA07 Health in the postmodern condition
Room D
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Martin Gorsky
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Signild Vallgårda : To govern and not to govern - paradoxes in public health policies in late 20th century Denmark and Sweden


Saturday 27 March 2004 10:45
P-14 HEA10 The politics of health in Germany
Room P
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Philipp Sarasin
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Silke Fehlemann, Ulrike Lindner : Mothers and infants under medical control in Germany 1890-1970
Kristina Matron : Urban youth and (psychic) health - municipal youth welfare in Frankfurt am Main in the Weimar Republic
Florence Vienne : Nazism and the history of man as an object of biopolitics
Maria Wolf : Life as a sexually transmitted deadly disease. Eugenic engineering of the 'generational order' in the 20th century


Saturday 27 March 2004 14:15
P-15 HEA12 Declining urban mortality in the Nordic Countries
Room P
Network: Health and Environment Chair: K. Schurer
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Bo Burstrom : Piped water and diarrhoea mortality in Stockholm 1878-1926
Anne Løkke : Victorian side effects - hygiene, wet nurses and infant mortality in Copenhagen 1820-1920
Lisa Öberg : Medico-political and citizen action to reduce infant and child mortality in Stockholm 1878-1926
John Rogers, Sören Edvinsson & Anders Brändström : Causes of death in northern Swedish towns during the demographic and the epidemiological transition


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