Preliminary Programme

Showing: Health and Environment (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
X-1 HEA01 At the Mercy of Natural and Supernatural Forces. Health, Mind and Suicide in a Historical Perspective
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: David Lederer
Organizer: Riikka Miettinen Discussant: Maria T. Brancaccio
Alexander Kästner : At the Mercy of Relatives and Neighbours. Suicide Prevention in Electoral Saxony
Evelyne Luef : Fighting Demons, Spirits and Evil Thoughts. Attempts at Suicide Prevention and Care in Early Modern Austria and Sweden
Riikka Miettinen : ‘The great gains that endured him night and day forced him into this’. Physical Illness and Suicides in Early Modern Sweden
Anu Salmela : In a Moment of Madness? Women, Insanity, and Suicide in Late 19th-Century Finland


Z-1 HEA15 The Modern Therapeutic Bath under Social, Medical and Economic Aspects
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Alfred Weiss
Organizer: Alfred Weiss Discussant: Sabine Veits-Falk
Elke Hammer-Luza : The Spa as a Commercial Enterprise. The Beginnings of Commercialization by using the Example of Styria in the First Half of the 19th Century
Elisabeth Lobenwein : « Suivrai vos conseils et attendrai en philosophie d’apprendre mon sort et probablement de toute l’Europe à la Gastein (26.05.1798) ». Prince Archbishop Colloredo’s Visits to the Spa Town Gastein.
Andrea Puehringer : From “Montecarlization” to “Medicalization” – the Case of Bad Homburg vor der Hoehe
Christina Vanja : Women as Visitors of Spas (18th and 19th Centuries)



Wednesday 23 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
X-2 HEA02 Biomedical Innovation and Health
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Heiner Fangerau
Organizers: - Discussant: Heiner Fangerau
Chris Crenner : Sham Surgery and Surgical Innovation
Debora Frommeld : The Body-Mass-Index (BMI) as a Biomedical Innovation: the Development of Body Weight Measurement
Jeremy Greene : Imitation and Innovation: a Brief History of the Me-too Drug
Antje Kampf : Probing the Social Acceptance of Biomedical Innovation: Early Cancer Detection Tests and the Public in Germany 1960s-1980s


Z-2 HEA16 Occupational Health between the 18th and 20th Century
UR4 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizers: - Discussant: Iris Borowy
Daniel Blackie : Disability, Work, and Class in British Coalmining Communities, 1780–1880
Mike Mantin : Coalmining and the National Scheme for Disabled ex-Servicemen after World War I
Alfredo Menendez-Navarro : Asbestos, Cancer and Workers’ Mobilizations during the Transition to Democracy in Spain
Judith Rainhorn : Reassessing the History of Occupational Health and Safety through the Template of the Prohibition of hite Lead. A Transnational Perspective



Wednesday 23 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
X-3 HEA03 Borders and Peripheries in Modern Medicine
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Heini Hakosalo
Organizer: Stephan Curtis Discussant: Heini Hakosalo
Stephan Curtis : Education, Travel and the Creation of Medical Knowledge in 19th-century Sweden
Marianne Junila : Poor Little Mites of the North: the Child Health Care Politics in Postwar Finland
Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson : Open or Closed Borders? Swedish Midwives' Skills and Practice in the Late 1800s
Anders Ottosson : The Popularity of Gynaecological Massage and Women's Health around 1900


ZD-3 HEA17 Facing Diseases
Prominentenzimmer
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Josep Lluís Barona
Organizers: - Discussant: Josep Lluís Barona
Iris Borowy : International Politics, Aid and Health: What for German Medical Development Aid?
Staffan Förhammar, Marie Clark Nelson : Preventing Disability: Motivating the Treatment of Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Early Twentieth Century
Helene Laurent : Diphtheria, World War II and German Occupation



Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
ZC-4 HEA09 Health, Society, Family: Biometric Approaches to Child Welfare
UR Altre Geschichte
Networks: Health and Environment , Social Inequality Chair: David Meredith
Organizer: Deborah Oxley Discussant: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
Vellore Arthi, Jane Humphries : Gender-Differential Investment in Infant Nutrition and Health: Evidence from a Marylebone Maternity Hospital
Antonio D. Cámara : From Chromosomes to Societies: What, Why and How of a Biosocial Approach to the Past. The Example of Sexual Size Dimorphism
Mary Cox : Hunger Games: How the Allied Blockade in WWI deprived German Children of Nutrition and Allied Food Aid Subsequently saved them
Deborah Oxley, Sara Horrell : Factory Figures: Evidence for Gender Bias and Bargaining within Households in 19th Century Britain
Eric Schneider : The Mortality Transition and Biological Living Standards in Boston in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
ZC-6 HEA07 Health, Ethnicity and Gender in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe
UR Altre Geschichte
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer
Organizer: Friederike Kind-Kovács Discussant: Sarah Marks
Friederike Kind-Kovács : International and National Jewish Child Relief in Interwar Hungary
Maren Roeger : Regulation of Prostitution: Poland 1914-1945
Katrin Steffen : Health, Poverty and Eugenics in Interwar Poland
Eszter Varsa : Health, Hygiene and Romani Assimilation in Hungary from an Intersectional Perspective, 1950s-1980s
Esther Wahlen : Alcohol Policy and the Treatment of Alcoholics in Late Socialist Romania and Czechoslovakia



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
W-7 HEA19 Doctors, Health Professionals and Institutions
Hörsaal 50 second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Nava Blum
Organizers: - Discussant: Nava Blum
Christopher Gale : Patients, Professionals, Politicians and the Public Purse: the Rise and Professionalisation of the UK Mental Health Service User Movement from the Mid-Twentieth Century
Bárbara Ana Revuelta Eugercios : The Effect of the Institutional Environment on Children Mortality in La Inclusa de Madrid (Madrid,1890-1935)
Sara Silverstein : “We are still dead”: Refugee Doctors and the Rehabilitation of Europe after the Second World War



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
X-9 HEA18 Social Determinants of Health: Sanitary Reform and Nutrition
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Iris Borowy
Organizers: - Discussant: Iris Borowy
Emiko Higami, Kenichi Tomobe : What's the Most Important was to Reduce the Infant Mortality Rate: a Scheme at Osaka City of the Early 20th Century
Tenna Jensen : The Role of Food in Elderly Care
Corinne Pernet : Food, Development, and the Return of the Local at FAO



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
X-10 HEA05 Health Education Practices in Socio-Historical Perspective (19th-20th centuries)
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Marie Clark Nelson
Organizer: Enrique Perdiguero-Gil Discussant: Marie Clark Nelson
Angeline Durand-Vallot : A Historical Approach of the Campaign for Birth Control in the United States
Enric Novella, Geert Thyssen & Karin Priem : The Challenge of Consumption: Luxembourg’s Steel Industry and the Educational Crusade against Tuberculosis (Ca. 1880-1930)
Séverine Parayre : The Birth of Policy Organization of Health Education and his Difficult Application in France in Nineteenth Century
Enrique Perdiguero-Gil, Josep M. Comelles : Fighting against Superstition as Health Education: Folk-medicine in Spain (1885-1985)



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
L-11 HEA04 Consuming Health: Cures, Medicine, and the Market in World History (16th -20th Centuries)
Hörsaal 31 first floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Nils Kessel
Organizer: Michael Zeheter Discussant: Nils Kessel
Stefanie Gänger : Malaria and the Market. World Trade in Cinchona Bark, 1770 – 1830
Aija Kaartinen, Hanna Kuusi : Gendered Marketing of Psychoactive Drugs in Finland, 1950–1960s
Michael Zeheter : Mineral Water: Curing the Individual and Curing Society



Friday 25 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
H-12 EDU10 Childhood Health
Hörsaal 27 first floor
Networks: Education and Childhood , Health and Environment Chair: Bengt Sandin
Organizers: - Discussant: Annemieke Van Drenth
Nelleke Bakker : Child Health and the Shifting Concerns of School Physicians in the Mid-20th Century – the Case of a Dutch Rural Area
Leticia Fontecha Fernandez Rumeu : Pain in Childhood: Debates in Ancient Times and the Early Twentieth Century
Sofia Littmarck : Discourses on Children and Childhood in Parent Education Policies in Sweden
Mary Clare Martin : How Illness Shaped Childhood in Britain, 1800-2000


X-12 HEA10a International Loans and Debts in the Fight against Smallpox, Poliomyelitis and Influenza I, American Region of the WHO
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: María-Isabel Porras
Organizers: Rosa Ballester, María-Isabel Porras Discussant: Rosa Ballester
Nava Blum : The First Physiotherapy School in Israel
Ana-Maria Carrillo : International Loans and Debts in Establishing a National Epidemiological Surveillance System in Mexico, both General and Specific, for Smallpox, Poliomyelitis and Influenza
Ana Paulina Malavassi : Analysis of the Infantile Vaccination Programs set up in Costa Rica against Smallpox, Polio and Influenza



Saturday 26 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
X-13 HEA10b International Loans and Debts in the Fight against Smallpox, Poliomyelitis and Influenza II, European Region of the WHO
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Ana-Maria Carrillo
Organizers: Rosa Ballester, María-Isabel Porras Discussant: Ana-Maria Carrillo
María-José Báguena, Maria-Victoria Caballero, Jaime de las Heras Salord & Mercedes Ramirez : Research, Development and Application of Smallpox, Poliomyelitis and Influenza Vaccines in Spain
Rosa Ballester, María-Isabel Porras-Gallo & Lourdes Marino : Benefits and Challenges in the Process of Disease Eradication in Spain: Smallpox and Polio as Models
Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Inês Guerra Santos : Social Networks and Internationalization: Associative Responses to Polio and Post-polio Syndrome in Spain and Portugal
Jose Vicente Toledo : The Influence of Poliomyelitis Outbreaks on the Rise and Development of Physiotherapy in Spain



Saturday 26 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
X-14 HEA12 Maps of the Medical Marketplace: Practitioners, Patients and Institutions in Early Modern Europe
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Patrick Wallis
Organizer: Alun Withey Discussant: Patrick Wallis
Jonathan Barry : Medical Practice in Bristol, c. 1500 - c. 1800
Lisbeth Rodrigues, Isabel Guimaraes Sá : Solving Agricultural Crises in the Sixteenth-century: the Case of the Hospital of Nossa Senhora do Pópulo (Portugal)
Alun Withey : Medicine in a Vacuum?: Practice and Practitioners in Early Modern Wales.



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
X-15 HEA13 Pain and Old Age in Early Modern England
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Pat Thane
Organizers: - Discussant: Pat Thane
Lynn Botelho : Not Suffering in Silence: Pain and the Seventeenth-Century Medicalization of Old Age
Anne Kugler : Suffering, Stoicism, and Spirituality: Pain and Fear in Women’s Experience of Ageing
Susannah Ottaway : Silencing Pain in Old Age during the Long Eighteenth Century
Kate Walker : Pain, Age, and Surgery in England, circa 1620-1740



Saturday 26 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
X-16 HEA14 Processes of Standardization within the Field of Health
UR2 Germanistik second floor
Network: Health and Environment Chair: Jeremy Greene
Organizer: Josep Lluís Barona Discussant: Jeremy Greene
Josep Lluís Barona : Dietary Standards and Rationing Policies in Wartimes
Bernard Harris, Andrew Hinde : Sanitary Reform in England and Wales, 1871-1914
Nils Kessel : The Standardization of Drug Consumption Measurement


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