Network: Health
Call
for Papers
The
next European Social Science History Association Conference will take place in
Lisbon, Portugal,
27 February - 1 March 2008. For general information on the biannual
conferences and the organising institution and for registration (including paper
proposal procedures), see http://www.iisg.nl/esshc.
As
chairs of the health network, we invite proposals for
panels or individual papers of any subject dealing with the social history of
health. While individual papers are welcome, panels consisting of three or four
contributors and one chair and discussant (who can be the same person) have a
higher chance of being accepted. We particularly encourage panels organised
around a central theme with papers covering different perspectives on this
theme, especially those with comparative approach, bringing together
contributions on different regions and / or time periods. Panel participants
should come from different institutes and preferably from different
countries.
In
addition to the classical papers and panels, we also invite offers for posters
or well-organized panels for round-table
discussions.
Suggestions are particularly encouraged on the topics
listed below. But proposals on other topics are very welcome as
well.
1.
Global Health - Possible
sub-themes: travels of disease; the Ecological Imperialism Revisited;
globalisation; plague, cholera, Aids, SARS …
2.
Colonial Health – Themes: colonial medicine as a means of negotiating power
between colonialists and colonised and also within both groups; racism;
orientalism;
3.
Occupational Health – including injuries, insurance, long-term health hazards
…
4.
Health as Commodity – Themes: developments of the market for medication, health
foods and other health products; interaction between physicians, scientists and
businessmen
5.
Health in numbers - presenting ways of interpreting historical health data,
either as case studies or from a theoretical point of
view.
6.
Nutrition as Health Factor – how has it interacted with cultural, economic and
ideological aspects?
7.
Health and warfare – how has health interacted with the – historically common –
situation of warfare (war injuries, blockades, bacteriological
warfare…)?
8.
Health and normality – how have common conceptions changed about healthy,
normal, sub-normal or pathological
conditions?
9.
Health in non-Western societies – addressing themes of health and medicine in
societies outside of Europe and non-indigenous North America and
Australia.
10.
History of health as interdisciplinary project – room for overlap and
cooperation with medicine, biology, economics, political science
…
Panel
chairs can also act as discussants. Discussants have an important role in
stimulating discussions, which should take up a substantial part of the panel
time. They can identify central issues of the papers, point of similarities and
differences, raise individual or general questions or otherwise broaden the
perspective on the overall themes of the
panels
The
deadline is April 1, 2007.
For
submitting papers, please, use registration at http://www.iisg.nl/esshc.
For
questions, suggestions etc., please write
to :
Enrique Perdiguero Gil: [log in to unmask]
And/or
Iris
Borowy: [log in to unmask]