Preliminary Programme

Showing: Health and Environment (all days)
Tue 26 February
    14.15
    16.30

Wed 27 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Thu 28 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Fri 29 February
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

Sat 1 March
    8.30
    10.45
    14.15
    16.30

All days
Tuesday 26 February 2008 14.15
G-1 HEA01 Recent Public Health I: Research and Strategies
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Signild Vallgårda
Organizers: Virginia Berridge, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Virginia Berridge
Luc Berlivet : In the shadow of biomedicine. The transformation of public health research in France, 1941-1978
Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomic : Health and Hygiene Situation in Yugoslavia 1945 - 1955
Alex Mold : Health Consumerism and Public Health in Britain Since the 1960s: The Role of Patient Consumer Groups
Sabine Schleiermacher : The Impact on Public Health of Return Medical Refugees in the Eastern Part of Germany after World War II
Sigrid Stoeckel : The Individual: the medical viewpoint versus the public health perspective in post-war Western Germany and Great Britain



Tuesday 26 February 2008 16.30
G-2 HEA02 Recent Public Health II: Policies
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Sigrid Stoeckel
Organizers: Virginia Berridge, Signild Vallgårda Discussant: Sigrid Stoeckel
Virginia Berridge : The history of post war UK public health : a neglected area?
Marjaana Niemi : Health education for forest labourers and career women
Udo Schagen : Democratic Health System and Public Health: Debates in Exile and Post-War Realities
Signild Vallgårda : From universalism to needs assessment. Public health in Denmark and Sweden from 1930s and onwards


N-2 TEC03 Children, health and hygiene - Europe 1880-1960 - Continuity or change?
Room 6.1
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment , Technology Chair: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Organizer: Ning De Coninck-Smith Discussant: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Astri Andresen : Children’s hygiene in post-tuberculosis society: the Nordic countries 1945-1960s
Nelleke Bakker : 'Health colonies' for children and the fear of tuberculosis in the Netherlands 1883-1955
Josep Lluís Barona : Meals, open air and sanatoria: preventing children tuberculosis in Spain (1892-1936)
Ning De Coninck-Smith : Health, art and architecture - Vintersbølle children’s sanatorium 1934-1937.



Wednesday 27 February 2008 8.30
G-3 HEA03 The health and social care interface: Britain and the United States 1930-2001
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Alex Mold
Organizers: - Discussant: Pat Thane
Martin Gorsky : The legacy of the Poor Law: institutional care of the elderly in the West of England, c. 1930-1960
Colleen Grogan : American Families Attempting to Care Amid Public Policies Encouraging Nursing Home Use and the Medicalization of Aging
Beatrix Hoffmann : Chronic Illness in the U.S. Health Care System: Separate and Unequal
John Welshman : From Training to Social Education: Research, Policy, and Care in the Community, 1948-2001



Wednesday 27 February 2008 10.45
G-4 HEA04 Midwives as Purveyors of Medical Culture
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Niklas Jensen
Organizers: - Discussant: Niklas Jensen
Stephan Curtis : Midwives and the Diffusion of Academic Medicine in 19th-century Sweden
Megan Davies : Countercultural Childbirth: Homebirth and Midwifery in the Kootenay Region of British Columbia, 1970-1990
Erla Dóris Halldórsdóttir : History of male midwifery in Iceland
Mette Roensager : Greenlandic Midwives 1820-1920: between Greenlandic and Danish cultures



Wednesday 27 February 2008 16.30
G-6 HEA06 International Anti-Tuberculosis in the Twentieth Century - Variations on a Theme?
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Organizers: - Discussant: Teemu Sakari Ryymin
Iris Borowy : International Tuberculosis Work between the Wars
Niels Brimnes : The troubled life of the BCG-Vaccine, 1945-82
Len Smith, Janet Mccalman : TB in Black and White: the contrasting mortality of dispossessed Aborigines and dislocated Europeans in Victoria, Australia, 1850-1950



Thursday 28 February 2008 8.30
G-7 HEA07 Food and Health: Enlightenment, Experimentation and Commerce, 1700-1960
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Josep Lluís Barona
Organizers: - Discussant: Josep Lluís Barona
Ximo Guillem-Llobat : The preservation of foodstuffs in Europe (1880 – 1910), challenging food policies and scientific authorities
Barbara Orland : “Back to Nature: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Alimentary Experiments, 1750-1800”
David Smith : Food security in the cold war: planning for a nuclear emergency, and the fate of Britain’s corned beef stockpile
Emma Spary : Demands of the Marketplace: Making, Selling and Tasting Health Foods in Paris, 1765-1810
Frank Stahnisch : François Magendie’s Physiological Nutrition Experiments, 1831-1841: Sensualist Convictions, Demonstrative Experimentation, and the Commercial Complex of the French ‘July Monarchy’



Thursday 28 February 2008 10.45
G-8 HEA08 Knowledge of Emotions and Subjectivity: an Historical Perspective
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizer: Rosa Medina-Domenech Discussant: Iris Borowy
Ivan Crozier : Culture, Psychiatry and the Case of Koro
Agita Luse : Politics of the ‘psy’ and endorsement of emotions. The case of the 20th century Latvia
Rosa Medina-Domenech : Sciences of love in Spain. Knowledge production of expert women and scientific experts during the Franco’s dictatorship (1939-1975)
Cecilia Riving : The family and the psychiatrist in 19th century Sweden
Deborah Thien : Disclosing Emotional Well being



Thursday 28 February 2008 14.15
G-9 HEA09 What practitioners did: Laboratory and clinic in the history of late 19th and early 20th century medicine
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Chris Crenner
Organizers: - Discussant: Chris Crenner
Tricia Close-Koenig : When confronted with tumours: The pathology laboratory for diagnosis in Strasbourg, 1919-1939.
Morten Hammerborg : The Laboratory and the Clinic: The Bergen Experience
Steve Sturdy : Ideal Places: Laboratory and Clinic in the History of Medicine



Thursday 28 February 2008 16.30
I-10 NMHEA Network meeting: Health
Room 2.1
Network: Health and Environment Chairs: -
Organizers: - Discussants: -



Friday 29 February 2008 8.30
G-11 HEA11 Public Health Responses to Infant Diseases in Europe, 1900-1965
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Astri Andresen
Organizers: - Discussant: Astri Andresen
Logie Barrow : Epidemic City Fathers
Marie Clark Nelson : Sun of the Knife: Treatin Children with Skeletal or other forms of Tuberculosis at Apelviken ca 1900-1930
María-Isabel Porras, Rosa Ballester : The incorporation of medical technology for the treatment of the acute stage of poliomyelitis in Spain (1940-1965)
Dora Vargha : The decade of summer fears: Polio epidemics in 1950's Hungary



Friday 29 February 2008 14.15
G-13 HEA13 Epidemics as Social Phenomena
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Logie Barrow
Organizers: - Discussant: Logie Barrow
Ida Blom : Path Dependence or Reform Capability? Scandinavian legislation on Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 1940's to 1990's
Elisabeth Engberg : “In every home, a sick: society’s response to pandemic influenza on the local level, before and after 1900: The example of Sweden”
Matthieu Fintz : Emerging Viruses, State of Emergency and the Manufacture of Health Crises in Egypt. Media Framing of Avian Flu and Other Invisible Enemies



Friday 29 February 2008 16.30
G-14 HEA14 Health, Power and Medical Knowledge in the Caribbean and Brazil, 1700-1900
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Adrian Lopez Denis
Organizers: - Discussant: Adrian Lopez Denis
Juanita De Barros, Jacques Dumont : Colonial Public Health in the Early Twentieth-century Caribbean
Betânia Figueiredo : Conceptions of Health in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Monica Garcia : Germs and Environment: the Trajectories of Fevers and Leprosy Germs in Colombia, 1860-1900.
Niklas Jensen : “…For the benefit of the planters and the benefit of Mankind…”. The struggle to control midwives and obstetrics on St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1818-1848.



Saturday 1 March 2008 8.30
G-15 HEA15 Medicine, Life and Death: the German Context
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Jeannette Madarasz
Organizers: - Discussant: Jeannette Madarasz
Axel C. Huentelmann : State-run Public Health Institutions in Germany 1870-1930. Indirect Government and Health Policy
Karen Nolte : “Telling the painful truth” – nurses and physicians in the 19th century
Miri Shefer-Mossensohn : German Speaking Physicians and Health Administrators in the Modernization of Middle Eastern Medicines
Michael Stolberg : The medicalization of the death bed (1700-1850)



Saturday 1 March 2008 10.45
G-16 HEA16 Medicine and Health as Imperial Policy
Amphitheatre 2
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Juanita De Barros
Organizers: - Discussant: Juanita De Barros
Anna Crozier : ‘British ‘nerves’ and the management of Empire: negotiating colonialism and health before World War Two.
Hanrog Kang : Japanese colonial medicine in Korea
Adrian Lopez Denis : Where is the Atlantic History of Medicine?Smallpox and Yellow Fever in the Making of Cuban Colonialism, 1804-1835
Joao Rangel De Almeida : Revisiting Imperial Medicine: the 1851 International Sanitary Conference as a European imperial project.


H-16 FAM33 Medical and Demographic Knowledge: quantifying and classifying death I: 17th-19th centuries
Room 1.1
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Christine Théré
Organizer: Jean-Marc Rohrbasser Discussant: Jean-Marc Rohrbasser
Maria João Guardado Moreira, Teresa Rodrigues : The Mortality Pattern in Portugal
Kent Johansson : Sex-Specific Mortality in Pre-Industrial Europe: Child Mortality in Scania, Sweden 1766-1894
Marie Lindkvist, Göran Broström : Interaction between fertility and infant mortality in an intergenerational perspective



Saturday 1 March 2008 14.15
H-17 HEA10 Medical and Demographic Knowledge: quantifying and classifying death II: 19th and 20th centuries
Room 1.1
Networks: Family and Demography , Health and Environment Chair: Kent Johansson
Organizers: - Discussant: Kent Johansson
Agnieszka Fihel : Excess male mortality as an inherent component of modernization
Andrew Hinde, Martin Gorsky, Bernard Harris & Aravinda Guntupali : The rise in morbidity in England, 1850-1950
Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant : Maternal mortality in the Belgian vital registration and in the maternity wards in nineteenth century Belgium


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