The Pulse-Project.org [1] is delighted to announce posting the 22 papers
presented to the international workshop on
"HEALTH AND SOCIETY:
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC MEDICAL TRADITIONS IN GREECE AND THE BALKANS,
1453-1920"
(Athens, 8-10 December 2010)
Link:
http://pulse-project.org/HealthSociety [2]
_Workshop Summary_
Offering
particularly insightful analyses of the various trajectories medical
traditions' followed in Greece and the Balkans over a protracted 500 year
period unto the First World War, this international workshop also aimed to
strengthen links between British scholars and institutions and those in
Greece and the Balkans working on the social history of medicine.
The
Workshop was organised and sponsored by the Working Group on the History of
Race and Eugenics (HRE) [3] at Oxford Brookes University; together with the
Graduate Programme of the Faculty of History and Archaeology at the
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens [4], the British School at
Athens [5], and The Berendel Foundation [6], London. The podcasts presented
here were generously funded by Oxford Brookes University's Wellcome Trust
Strategic Award.
_Table of Contents: _
ANDREW WEAR (The Wellcome Centre
for the History of Medicine, UCL):
"Some general aspects of the
relationship between religion and medicine in the early modern period"
MARIUS TURDA (Oxford Brookes University):
"Ancients and moderns: The
rise of social history of medicine in the Balkans"
NIKOLETTA GIANTSI
(University of Athens):
"Les théories médiévales sur la lèpre vues par un
médecin grec du 19e siècle : Le cas de Demeter Alexandre Zambaco"
KATERINA KONSTANTINIDOU (University of Athens):
"Between soul and body:
Hospital care in Venetian Corfu (17th MSO-BIDI-FONT-FAMILY: ARIAL;">MIKEL
NAKUCI (Institute of Dermatological Studies, Tirana):
"History of
Albanian Medicine during the post Byzantine Period"
AGAMEMNON TSELIKAS
(Historical and Paleographic Archive of the Cultural Foundation of the
National Bank of Greece):
"Methodological issues on the study of
Iatrosophical manuscripts"
OCTAVIAN BUDA ('Carol Davila' University of
Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest):
"Variolation from the Balkans, through
Romanian territories, to Western Europe, 1678 to 1802"
GEORGETA NAZARSKA
(State University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia):
"The Balkan medical
education and Bulgarian physicians: Transfer of knowledge, 1840s to 1920s"
VALENTIN-VERON TOMA (Francisc Rainer Institute of Anthropology,
Bucharest):
"The migration of medical students from the Balkans to Paris
in the 19th century: The case of Romania"
LYDIA SAPOUNAKI-DRACAKI
(Panteion University):
"Food regulation in Greece: Doctors, police and
municipal authorities as protectors of the food market of the city of
Piraeus (1835 to 1914)"
CONSTANTINE MARAVELIAS (Museum of Criminology,
School of Medicine, University of Athens):
"Educating health
professionals: The role of the Athens Museum of Criminology, 1833 to1920"
GLHAN BALSOY (Işik University, Istanbul):
"Agents of the state or
agents of the local female networks?: Midwifes and the new science of
midwifery in the nineteenth century Ottoman society"
KATERINA GARDIKAS
(University of Athens):
"Midwives in the early years of Greek statehood"
KRISTINA POPOVA (South West University, Blagoevgrad):
"Working for the
ill patient or working for a better society? The beginning of the public
health nursing in Bulgaria"
DESPINA KARAKATSANI (University of
Peloponnese):
"'The art of creating beautiful children': Considerations
on pro genetic engineering and eugenics in the early 20th century"
VANGELIS KARAMANOLAKIS (Department of History, University of Athens):
"Attitudes to mental illness and treatment in turn of the 20th century
Greece"
DESPO KRITSOTAKI (University of Crete) mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;">"Lay narratives of mental illness at the Dromokaiteion hospital,
1900 to 1920"
VASO THEODORU (Democritus University of Thrace):
"Caring
for TB patients in early 20th century Greece: The foundation and operation
of _Sotiria _sanatorium, 1905 to 1920"
PAUL J. WEINDLING (Oxford Brookes
University):
"Social history of medicine in context"
_Upcoming
Podcasts_:
Coverage of the conference on "The Disease Within:
Confinement in Europe, 1400-1800" convened at Oxford Brookes University,
4-5th March 2011.
We very much hope that you will enjoy these podcasts,
and please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions or queries
you may have. With my best wishes,
Yours,
Tudor Georgescu
_The
Pulse-Project offers a wide range of freely accessible podcasts on the past
and present of Science and Medicine for both general and specialised
audiences, as well as the weekly podcast series Math/Maths and Strange
Quarks, aiming to reflect and inform debates amongst academics, students,
and the wider public alike._
Links:
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[1]
http://pulse-project.org/node/4
[2]
http://pulse-project.org/HealthSociety
[3]
http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/research/project/hre/
[4]
http://www.arch.uoa.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26
[5]
http://www.bsa.ac.uk/
[6] http://www.theberendelfoundation.com/
