Posts Tagged ‘epidemics’
International Workshop ‘Epidemics, Gender, and Public Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’
Call for Papers: International Workshop ‘Epidemics, Gender, and Public Institutions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’ Dates: 2–3 July 2026 Venue: University of the Balearic Islands (Faculty of Philosophy and…
Read MoreLezing: Van epidemieën tot gezondheidsongelijkheid: lessen uit Amsterdam (1850-1950)
Ziektes zoals tuberculose, cholera en pokken teisterden niet alleen onze voorouders, maar onthullen ook verrassend veel over sociale ongelijkheden die tot op de dag van vandaag relevant zijn. Tijdens deze…
Read MoreMedia and Epidemics: Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health, 20th-21st Centuries
Epidemics provide significant opportunities to reflect on the ways in which media, technology and society are co-constituted. As medical and social phenomena, they tend to be highly mediatized events, although…
Read MoreUnruly Microbes – Epidemics, Infections, and Ecologies of Change in Historical Perspective
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease Durham University From spillover diseases to re-emerging infections to rising rates of antimicrobial resistance, stories of unruly microbes have proliferated daily conversation…
Read MoreHospitals in times of crisis
The conference “hospitals in times of crisis” will take place in Warsaw from 18–20 May 2023 in cooperation with Prof. Dr Michał Kopczyński from the University of Warsaw, the International…
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