Les humanités en santé

The Encyclopaedia of Health Humanities

Call for contributions

The editors are inviting scholars to participate in the The Encyclopaedia of Health Humanities to be published by Springer Nature (under the imprint of Palgrave Macmillan). This will be the first reference volume of the health humanities of its kind. Entries are sought with a lower limit of approximately 500-1,000 words and an upper limit of no more than 10,000 words. Entries will be published online by Springer as they are approved, with a final date of January 2022 for publication. A guideline for entries follows. We welcome you will join this groundbreaking venture.

Scope of the Encyclopaedia. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Health Humanities aims to be a pre-eminent, seminal, and international work that draws upon the multiple and expanding fields of inquiry underpinned by the health humanities, that link health and social care disciplines with the arts and humanities. A major focus of the volume will be the role of the health humanities in illuminating and enriching the social, cultural, and phenomenological experience of being ill, and of caring for those who are ill, as well as documenting how these experiences have contributed to the development of the arts and humanities themselves. Overall, this volume will offer a thorough development of critique and critical theory concerning health care, in order to enable readers to question not only current practice, but also the foundational assumptions of health care and the health humanities. This volume will provide a foundational resource to scholars and practitioners in the arts, humanities, healthcare, health and well-being from around the world.

Contribution level. Our aim is to publish a work of tertiary literature, which provides summarized information derived from primary or secondary sources, rather than original articles. As such it contains digested knowledge in an easily accessible format. Please don’t use your entry as an opportunity to publish (exclusively) your own scientific work (primary literature). Rather, the current state of literature should be summarized including also possible review articles. As with any other scientific paper, proper references are required. Content, therefore, consists of established information in a particular field.

The level of contributions should be such that anyone from a student to a researcher would benefit from a contribution, which is not from his or her area of expertise. Each contribution should stand on its own without an assumption that a reader will be seeing any other portion of the work.

Length of text. Each entry should consist of between 1,000 and 10,000 words (excluding figures and references) with the following suggested ranges: Short (1,000-3,000 words), Medium (3,000 to 7,000 words), Long (7,000 to 10,000 words). Please feel free to add tables and figures.

The following link leads to a google sheet with two worksheets.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WKeUIEO0N8sFSGBrvdRqvo4RZJURneHMBItjZ6Z631s/edit?usp=sharing

The first is an indicative chapter listing of topics sought by the senior editors, but which should not be considered exhaustive or definitive. The second sheet shows confirmed topics.

If you would like to contribute, please contact me at msb@ntu.edu.sg, with the subject heading Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Health Humanities, and inform me of your chapter topic and title. Please also make an annotation to the google sheet. I will compile this list and forward to the senior editors.

Le nursing à l'hôpital d'Endell Street

ENDELL STREET: Nursing in WWI's unique women-run hospital

Virtual event

Taking place online, 3 June 2020, 5.30 – 6.30pm

Booking link: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/events/lib-endell-street-hospital-03062020


When war broke out in 1914 hundreds of nurses went to France with the British Army while many more worked in military hospitals at home. A small team joined Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson – doctors, suffragettes and life partners – in a volunteer medical unit bound for Paris. There they ran a hospital in a luxury hotel which was so successful they were asked by the British Army to run a second hospital in Boulogne. And then – in May 1915 – they were invited to run a major military hospital in the heart of London.


Endell Street was unique. It was the only hospital within the British Army to be run and staffed by women – all the doctors, nurses and orderlies were female apart from a dozen or so male helpers. The women of Endell Street treated 26,000 wounded and after the war the hospital remained open to treat victims of the Spanish flu. Endell Street became renowned as the most popular hospital in the First World War – but it was not plain sailing. Wendy Moore, author of the new book ENDELL STREET: The Trailblazing Women who ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital (published as No Man's Land in the United States) reveals the ups and downs of life in this pioneering medical venture.



Please register to attend, and a link will be circulated in advance with instructions on how to join the talk. All tickets must be booked individually.

L'influence de la folie sur l'Histoire

How Madness Shaped History: An Eccentric Array of Maniacal Rulers, Raving Narcissists, and Psychotic Visionaries

Christopher J. Ferguson

Hardcover: 304 pages

Publisher: Prometheus (April 7, 2020)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1633885745

This book considers the impact of psychology on world events, looking at how mental illness and personality disorders have affected history. How have mental illness and personality disorders influenced history? This lively investigation demonstrates that, when conditions are ripe, one unstable individual can create the best or worst moments of a generation or even a century.Beginning with Alexander the Great, whose megalomania caused widespread bloodshed yet powerfully shaped world history through the spread of Greek culture, the author examines the various forms of mental illness among people of great influence. These includes emperors, like the Romans Caligula and Elagabalus, kings like George III of England and Charles II of Spain, and lesser known rulers such as sixteenth-century Hungarian noblewoman Elizabeth Bathory, who is in the Guinness World Records as the most prolific female serial killer of all time. In more recent times, the author considers the mental instability exhibited by dictators Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Idi Amin, as well as female prison guard Irma Grese, whose cruelties at Auschwitz were infamous.He also discusses rumors of cognitive decline among American presidents Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump, and the ways in which American democracy copes with the disability of its leaders. And he considers cases where whole societies seem to be gripped by the madness of mob rule.Ferguson concludes with an eye toward the future, considering the power of social media to amplify fringe ideas, giving extremist and outright crazy perspectives greater exposure and influence than ever before.

Des corps dans la ville

Des corps dans la ville : norme et écart au XIXe siècle

Appel à contributions

Numéro thématique de la revue Arts et Savoirs publiée sur OpenEdition


Coordination scientifique
Bénédicte Jarrasse (Université de Bordeaux)
Axel Hohnsbein (Université de Bordeaux)

Argumentaire

La recherche en littérature et en sciences humaines – les études dixneuviémistes en particulier – continuent de témoigner régulièrement de l'engouement suscité par la question de la représentation des corps, propice à une multiplicité d'approches et de croisements disciplinaires, qu'ont nourris en particulier les travaux d'Alain Corbin et Georges Vigarello. Le corps, notion d'une grande plasticité, peut ainsi renvoyer à une réalité matérielle et physique, que le XIXe siècle contribue à rendre de plus en plus visible, ou se faire parallèlement le véhicule d'un imaginaire social, qu'il explore au travers de formes d'écriture parfois inédites, au croisement des champs littéraire, journalistique ou scientifique.

Les mutations que connaît l'espace urbain au XIXe siècle imposent alors aux corps de nouvelles normes, dont peuvent faire état le roman réaliste, la littérature dite panoramique ou encore la presse, et définissent dans le même temps de nouvelles marginalités. Des lieux relevant simultanément de l’observation médicale ou anthropologique, du spectacle, voire du voyeurisme, tels que les baraques foraines, le musée de cire ou la morgue, font ainsi émerger certains types de corps – vivants, artificiels ou morts –, dont s'emparent les représentations écrites ou iconographiques. Dans la dernière partie du siècle, des manifestations très médiatisées, comme les Expositions universelles, mettent en scène et donnent à voir aux visiteurs des corps différents dans des pavillons reconstituant les modes de vie de pays plus ou moins lointains.

Science et pseudoscience se mêlent ainsi au goût du spectacle qui caractérise le XIXe siècle et viennent imprégner, de manière plus ou moins sensible, les différents espaces qui structurent la ville, lesquels se multiplient et se diversifient sous le Second Empire. Si certains lieux sont conçus pour privilégier une observation scientifique des corps – l’hôpital, le jardin d’acclimatation, le laboratoire, le musée scientifique... –, d’autres favorisent une observation des corps qu'on pourrait qualifier de pseudoscientifique – Expositions universelles, baraques foraines, musées de cire. On peut aussi évoquer, sans hiérarchie, tous les lieux voués traditionnellement au spectacle, qui offrent à la vue des corps s'inscrivant à leur façon dans une dialectique de la norme et de l'écart : Opéra, théâtres, cirques...

Dans un contexte qui se caractérise par un renouvellement des méthodes d’observation scientifique, mais aussi par des réaménagements urbains et l'inauguration de nouveaux lieux dans la ville, il s’agira d’interroger la scientificité du regard que porte le XIXe siècle sur les corps voués à occuper cet espace. Cette scientificité ne sera pas la même selon qu’il s’agit d’un savant, du grand public ou des artistes et écrivains influencés dans leur quotidien et leurs pratiques par la vulgarisation des savoirs biologiques. Dans une période où ceux-ci progressent rapidement, le savant et l’ingénieur, l’écrivain et le journaliste, le peintre et l’illustrateur, les acteurs, danseurs, mimes, saltimbanques et monstres de foire, les criminels et les religieux, les commerçants, les bourgeois ou le petit peuple, sont appelés à se croiser, à s’observer, parfois à dialoguer et à s’influencer, dans des lieux nombreux et variés. Méthode scientifique, partis pris esthétiques, engagements idéologiques et opinions se mêlent dans des proportions diverses, donnant naissance à des représentations plus ou moins inédites ou normatives.

On s’intéressera aux effets de transferts ou de porosité dans les discours et les images qui peuvent les accompagner, permettant par exemple aux gens de lettres – qu'ils soient écrivains, journalistes ou théoriciens plus spécialisés – d’aborder les pratiques théâtrales, chorégraphiques ou circassiennes comme s’il s’agissait de poser un diagnostic médical, ou plus largement scientifique, sur les corps. Inversement, on pourra s’interroger sur la scientificité du regard que pose le savant sur la société qui l’entoure, ou sur celle qu’il adopte sur son lieu de travail. Le corpus envisageable n’est pas restrictif : littérature, presse, manuels divers, ouvrages savants et documents iconographiques sont utilisables, ce numéro s’adressant aux spécialistes de diverses disciplines. Seront privilégiées les études de textes et documents non canoniques ou les études d’œuvres jugées secondaires dans l’œuvre des grands auteurs. 

Modalités de proposition

Ce numéro d’Arts et Savoirs est dirigé par Bénédicte Jarrasse et Axel Hohnsbein (université de Bordeaux). Les personnes souhaitant soumettre un article (comptant entre 30 000 et 60 000 signes) sont invitées à envoyer un résumé (250 mots) et une courte biographie (150 mots) conjointement à axel.hohnsbein@u-bordeaux.fr et benedictejarrasse@yahoo.fr
avant le 12 juin 2020

Une réponse sera donnée début juillet. La date finale de remise des textes est fixée au 20 décembre 2020.

Adresse de la revue : https://journals.openedition.org/aes/

Médecine et style de vie au siècle des Lumières

Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century 

James Kennaway, Rina Knoeff (Editors)

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Hardcover: 334 pages

Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (March 30, 2020)

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-1138610705

The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals – airs and places, food and drink, exercise, excretion and retention, and sleep and emotions. This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals, showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body.

L'état des recherches sur la peste noire

The Mother of All Pandemics: The State of Black Death Research in the Era of Covid-19

A Medieval Academy of America Webinar

15 May 2020

1 - 3 PM EDT

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89832471831

Moderator: Winston Black (Independent Scholar)
Respondent: Monica Green (Independent Scholar)


Panelists:
Seeta Chaganti (Univ. of California, Davis)
Gérard Chouin (William & Mary)
Matthew Gabriele (Virginia Tech)
Robert Hymes (Columbia Univ.)
Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers University)


Prior to 2020, when most people heard the word "pandemic," they thought of the Black Death. Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has made us all newly aware of the severe consequences of pandemic events, it is necessary to lay a foundation for transhistorical dialogue about disease emergence, the role of the state in epidemic emergencies, and climate factors, among many other questions.

A fixture in history courses all over the world, from middle school to university, the Black Death is usually defined as the plague pandemic that struck western Eurasia and the Mediterranean region between 1346 and 1353. Estimates of mortality vary, but historians are agreed that those regions saw no less than 30-40% mortality; in some areas, it was even higher.

Yet research in the past decade has made clear that neither the geography nor the chronology of that definition is sufficient. If true, this means that we have also underestimated the total mortality of the event. What is now better understood as the Second Plague Pandemic likely began in the 13th century, not the 14th, and may have spread plague across much of both Eurasia and Africa. This was, in other words, a pandemic that by 1500 touched nearly half of the inhabited world. So far as we know right now, only the Americas, Australia, and Oceania were spared. Strains of the pathogen, Yersinia pestis, continued to cause outbreaks for several more centuries, and their descendants still persist around the world today.

This panel brings together leading researchers on the Second Plague Pandemic. We will discuss why work in genetics has transformed the kinds of questions that historians and researchers in allied fields (bioarchaeology, genetics, climate history, literary studies, and art history) can now ask about this pandemic. For many of these questions, we're still dealing only with hypotheses and fragmentary evidence. But the very fact that researchers from across these many disciplines now recognize the urgency of talking together signals that the field has made an important shift. Please join us for this important conversation as we seek to understand what the medieval epidemic can teach us about the causes of, societal response to, and economic recovery from COVID-19.

Allocation doctorale sur environnement et épidémies

Environnement et épidémies

Appel à candidatures pour une allocation doctorale

La thèse s’inscrira dans le champ des études environnementales (histoire de l’environnement, sociologie et anthropologie de l’environnement, science and technology studies) et prendra part au renouvellement des perspectives d’enquête au croisement des sciences sociales, de la biologie et du numérique. En effet, l’utilisation de nouvelles données issues de la biologie renouvelle profondément notre compréhension des crises environnementales et épidémiques présentes et passées. De nouvelles formes de travail scientifique et de partage de données émergent, permettant de suivre en temps réel des épidémies, d’informer les interventions de santé publique, ou de retracer l’histoire des transformations des écosystèmes, des corps et des sociétés. En particulier, l’essor de la phylogénie moléculaire (l’étude comparée des séquences génétiques et de leur histoire évolutive) ouvre un nouvel espace pour enquêter sur le social, à partir des traces biologiques, de leur analyse et de leur visualisation par des méthodes computationnelles. 

À titre d’exemple, la thèse pourra emprunter l’une des orientations ci-dessous, ou les combiner : 

Il peut s’agir de concevoir des enquêtes mixtes, associant histoire, enquête qualitative et approches bioinformatiques à propos d’épidémies, d’épizooties ou d’invasions biologiques contemporaines ou passées – à l’échelle locale ou mondiale, en terrain européen ou extra-européen, ou mondiale.

Il peut-être question d’aborder, par un travail de sociologie des sciences, l’émergence de collectifs de recherche en biologie computationnelle (phylogénie, épidémiologie, modélisation, écologie, big data biologique), la transformation de leurs outils numériques, leur implication dans la compréhension et la réponse aux crises épidémiques et écologiques, et leur appropriation par différents publics.

Ces orientations ne sont ici indiquées que comme des exemples, et ne sont en aucun cas limitatives – l’essentiel est de construire une recherche liant enjeux environnementaux, données biologiques et outils numériques. En particulier, le ou la doctorant(e) pourra envisager, en contrepoint de son étude, une intervention, éventuellement collaborative, de type enquête épidémiologique ou naturaliste, ou développement d’outils d’analyse, de collecte ou de visualisation de données.

Conditions de candidatures

Le ou la candidate devra être titulaire, au moment de son inscription en thèse, d’un master 2 (ou équivalent) et avoir une formation en sciences sociales (sociologie, histoire, anthropologie, sciences politiques, études sur les sciences et les techniques). Elle/il devra avoir une expérience dans l’enquête de sciences sociales (entretiens, ethnographie, étude d’archives, etc.). Un intérêt pour la biologie ou les sciences sociales du numérique, et un goût pour les méthodes quantitatives et numériques seront appréciés. Une attention spécifique sera donnée au profil atypique (venant des cursus de sciences par exemple).

Les candidat(e)s feront parvenir par courrier électronique, le lundi 11 mai 2020 au plus tard, un dossier comportant les pièces suivantes : 

• Un curriculum vitae 
• Une lettre de motivation 
• Un projet de thèse synthétique, d’une longueur de 2 pages, qui précise l’objet de la thèse, la question de recherche principale, ainsi que les méthodes envisagées 
• Un texte ou plusieurs textes de leur production (articles, mémoire, etc.) 
• Une lettre de recommandation. 

Le dossier complet devra être transmis par courrier électronique à Guillaume Lachenal (guillaume.lachenal@sciencespo.fr)

Pour tout renseignement, merci d’écrire à Guillaume Lachenal (guillaume.lachenal@sciencespo.fr)

médialab Sciences Po

27 rue St Guillaume, 75007 Paris 

https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/

Les leçons de l'histoire des pandémies

Pandemic, Creating a Usable Past: Epidemic History, COVID-19, and the Future of Health

ZOOM Webinar

May 8-9, 2020


In the face of COVID-19, historians of public health, nursing, and medicine come together to reflect on past epidemics and their implications for how we confront today’s unfolding crisis.

Those who study epidemics and pandemics in the past see powerful echoes in the present crisis. In the past as today, families and societies grappled with the sudden tragic loss of life. They debated the social and economic fallout from the epidemic. They struggled with tensions over the halting of commerce, the imposition of quarantines, and social distancing measures. They fought over the impact of public health measures on personal freedom and civil liberties. They tried to make sense of the different impact of disease across regions and populations, well-off and poor. They sought cures and prevention measures, even as dubious theories and fraudulent practices sprung up. They argued over what forms of knowledge or faith would guide them through the calamity. They called for reinventing public health during the crisis, and for rethinking social priorities once the epidemic subsided. And, even as the toll of death widened, they planned for the uncertain future.

With history as our guide, this forum of epidemic experts explores how people and societies in former eras responded to pandemic challenges. What perspective does their experience offer for the present? What guidance does the past provide for the future of public health, health care, and public policy?

Sponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine (link is external)
with support from Princeton University, Department of History
Please Note: Registration is required in order to attend. Each session requires a separate registration. All links to online registration forms are listed below each panel's information.

Friday, May 8, 2020
9 am | Introduction and Welcome
Keith Wailoo, Princeton University
9:15 - 10:30 am | Session 1 | Explaining Epidemics: The Past in the Present

Decades ago, in the early days of the AIDS crisis, historian Charles Rosenberg wrote “epidemics start at a moment in time, proceed on a stage limited in space and duration, following a plot line of increasing revelatory tension, move to a crisis of individual and collective character, then drift toward closure.” In the course of epidemics, societies grappled with sudden and unexpected mortality and also returned to fundamental questions about core social values. “Epidemics,” Rosenberg wrote, “have always provided occasion for retrospective moral judgment.” (“What is an Epidemic?”) This introductory panel features a discussion on these and other features of past epidemics – cholera, AIDS, plague, influenza, and so on – and their implications for understanding the unfolding COVID-19 crisis.

Discussants:
Nancy Tomes (link is external), Stony Brook University
Charles Rosenberg (link is external), Harvard University
Moderator: Keith Wailoo, Princeton University
REGISTRATION FOR INTRODUCTION AND SESSION 1:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1DFF7IAIQF-FgqopI4d08g (link is external)

Friday, May 8, 2020
11 am - 12:30 pm | Session 2 | Epidemics and Urban Centers: Different Cities, Disparate Experiences

Pandemics are often disparate in their impact – devastating some areas while sparing others, affecting regions and countries differently, and revealing shocking divergences along lines of social density, geography, class, and ethnicity. Public responses and public health measures can also accentuate these differences. What light do past experiences with influenza, Ebola, and other epidemics shed on our understanding of the forces driving these different experiences across urban centers and the geopolitics of epidemics? How can this history inform responses to COVID-19?

Presenters:
Howard Markel (link is external), physician/historian, University of Michigan | Social Distancing/Urban Disparities
Evelynn Hammonds (link is external), Harvard University | On the Racial Effects of Epidemics
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (link is external), Columbia University | Local and Global Effects
Gregg Mitman (link is external), University of Wisconsin, Madison | The Geopolitics of Ebola and COVID-19
Moderator: Pablo Gómez (link is external), University of Wisconsin, Madison
REGISTRATION FOR SESSION 2:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BFEjYTZRTEeJZN3COeiaIw (link is external)

Friday, May 8, 2020
1 - 3:30 pm | Session 3 | Battling Epidemics: Historian/Heath Care Practitioners Reflect on their Experiences on the Front Lines of Care

What are the experiences of practitioners on the front lines of care? This panel of historian/physicians and historians/nurses from across the U.S. offers insight into patient experiences, professional risks, triage challenges, therapeutic choices, innovative practices, and downstream effects associated with the COVID-19 crisis. As historians of medicine and nursing, panelists will also put their frontline experiences into historical perspective and discuss the long-term implications of COVID-19 on health care and society.

Presenters:
Barron Lerner, (link is external) physician/historian, New York University | Trust, Expertise, and History
Carla Keirns, (link is external) physician/historian, University of Kansas | Medical Ethics/Front line Care
Julie Fairman (link is external), nurse/historian, University of Pennsylvania | COVID-19 Through the Lens of Nursing
Chris Crenner (link is external), physician/historian, University of Kansas | The Challenge of Triage
Hughes Evans (link is external), physician/historian, Emory University | Downstream Effects in Pediatrics
Jeremy Greene (link is external), physician/historian, Johns Hopkins | The Past, Present, and Future of Tele-health
Moderator: Dominique Tobbell (link is external), University of Minnesota
REGISTRATION FOR SESSION 3:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ecM_akg7TquOG0KfmdDBag (link is external)

Saturday, May 9, 2020
9 - 10:30 am | Session 4 | Epidemic Responses: Civil Liberties and Public Health Politics

In the face of epidemic outbreaks, public health demands (whether for the wearing of masks, stay-at-home orders, quarantine and curfews, no-spitting ordinances, or mandatory testing) have often sacrificed individual freedoms in order to safeguard public wellbeing. But in the past, as today, controversies have flared over those demands and their lasting consequences. What implications have pandemics and crises in the past, and responses to them, had for civil liberties? How can the past inform the present response to COVID-19?

Presenters:
Barron Lerner (link is external), New York University | Pandemics and Civil Liberties
Richard Mizelle (link is external), University of Houston | Black Lives in the Wake of Calamity
David Barnes (link is external), University of Pennsylvania | Quarantine: Lessons from the Lazaretto
Moderator: Raúl Necochea (link is external), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
REGISTRATION FOR SESSION 4:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_leAwx4LfR9Kp5WxmZr11kg (link is external)

Saturday, May 9, 2020
11 am - 12:30 pm | Session 5 | Uncertain Knowledge in Epidemics: How Crises Spur New Therapies, Surveillance Practices, and Dubious Theories

In the face of epidemic illness and sweeping death and with few effective treatments, social and medical experimentation thrives. In past outbreaks, new therapies, new vaccines, new surveillance practices, and new theories about bodies and difference have flourished – some effective and lasting, others dubious and destructive. What light does this history of uncertain knowledge shed on our today’s COVID-19 experience? How can history inform public understanding of the quest for solutions on the road ahead?

Presenters:
Mariola Espinosa (link is external), University of Iowa | Theories of Race, Immunity, Yellow Fever
Emily Waples (link is external), Hiram College | Meaning and Politics of Symptoms in the 19th Century and Today
Graham Mooney (link is external), Johns Hopkins University | Infectious Disease Surveillance, 19th Century Origins and Legacy
Susan Lederer (link is external), University of Wisconsin, Madison | Convalescent Serum Therapy: Past and Present
Moderator: Carin Berkowitz (link is external), New Jersey Council of the Humanities
REGISTRATION FOR SESSION 5:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I3T1-ZofSQqswPQ4a3cQqQ (link is external)

Saturday, May 9, 2020
1:30 - 3 pm | Session 6 |After Epidemics: The Challenge of Reinventing Public Health

From cholera to polio and AIDS, epidemic crises often spur societies to reinvent public health. How have societies in the past retooled public health practices and administration after epidemics? What implications might we draw for the remaking of national and global public health in the wake of the 2020 coronavirus?

Presenters:
Anne-Emanuelle Birn (link is external), University of Toronto | The Pasts and Possible Futures of Global Public Health
Akwasi Kwarteng Amoaka-Gyampah (link is external), University of Education, Winneba, Ghana | Past and Future of Sanitary Inspection
Dora Vargha (link is external), University of Exeter | Polio and Global Health Politics
Nancy Tomes (link is external), Stony Brook University | Informing and Misinforming the Public
Moderator: Keith Wailoo, Princeton University
3 - 3:30 pm | Closing discussion with panelists

Moderator: Keith Wailoo, Princeton University
REGISTRATION FOR SESSION 6 AND CLOSING DISCUSSION:
https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tY-JuMa3TkimMaSWEodQgA (link is external)

Organized by:
Keith Wailoo, Princeton University
Jodi Koste (link is external), American Association for the History of Medicine
Mikey McGovern, Princeton University
Julia Stone, Princeton University
Kim Worthington, Princeton University
Carla Zimowsk, Princeton University
Center for Collaborative History - Princeton University