media – History Health & Healing

Media 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…

The ‘cause of the mentally ill’: Mediatisating and destigmatising madness in the second half of the 20th century

By Chiara Lacroix

This international conference aims to bring together multiple perspectives on the way in which madness and its forms of care were mediatised and discussed in the public arena in a…