This international workshop aimed to strengthen links between British scholars and institutions and those in Greece and the Balkans working on the social history of medicine. This on-going collaboration has already been explored over the course of two previous conferences, one in London in January 2008 (organised in collaboration with the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL), the other in Vienna in November 2008 (organised in collaboration with the Medical University of Vienna). For the full details on both events see the HRE website.
To further and deepen this international debate, this workshop used the expertise provided by scholars at the Centre for Health, Medicine and Society at Oxford Brookes University and the financial opportunities created by its Wellcome Trust's funded Strategic Award to build upon and extend the research foundations laid by previous activities, not only in terms of a transfer of knowledge, but also in terms of direct involvement in new collaborative endeavours with as diverse institutions as the Graduate Programme of the Faculty of History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the British School at Athens.
The Workshop was organised and sponsored by the Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics at Oxford Brookes University; together with the Graduate Programme of the Faculty of History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the British School at Athens, and The Berendel Foundation, London.
The conveners, Dr Marius Turda, Dr Katerina Gardikas and Professor Catherine Morgan, express their gratitude to all involved in making this workshop such a remarkable success.
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(The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, UCL)
“Some general aspects of the relationship between religion and medicine in the early
modern period”
(Oxford Brookes University)
“Ancients and Moderns: The rise of social history of medicine in the Balkans”
(University of Athens)
“Les Théories Médiévales sur la Lèpre Vues par un Médecin Grec du 19e siècle: Le cas de Demeter‐Alexandre Zambaco”
(University of Athens)
“Between Soul and Body: Hospital care in Venetian Corfu (17th‐18th centuries)”
(University of Crete)
“Charities and Health Policy of the Greek Orthodox Community in Constantinople (mid 18th-19th centuries)”
(Institute of Dermatological Studies, Tirana)
“History of Albanian Medicine during the post‐Byzantine Period”
(University of Thessaloniki)
“Modes of Contamination and Sanitary Measures Against the Plague in the Eastern Mediterranean”
(Historical and Paleographic Archive of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece)
“Methodological Issues in the Study of Iatrosophical Manuscripts”
(‘Carol Davila’ University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest)
“Variolation from the Balkans ‐ Through Romanian Territories ‐ to Western Europe, 1678‐1802”
(State University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia)
“The Balkan Medical Education and Bulgarian Physicians: Transfer of knowledge, 1840s‐1920s”
(Francisc Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest)
“The Migration of Medical Students from the Balkans to Paris in the 19th century: The case of Romania”
(University of Thessaly)
“The role of the Greek Medical Council, 1834-1923”
(Panteion University)
“Food regulation in Greece: Doctors, police and municipal authorities as protectors of the food market of the city of Piraeus (1835‐1914)”
(Museum of Criminology, School of Medicine, University of Athens)
“Educating Health Professionals: The role of the Athens Museum of Criminology, 1833‐1920”
(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”
(University of Athens)
“Midwives in the Early Years of Greek Statehood”
(South‐West University, Blagoevgrad)
“Working for the Ill Patient or Working for a Better Society? The beginning of the public health nursing in Bulgaria”
(University of Peloponnese)
‘The Art of Creating Beautiful Children: Considerations on pro‐genetic engineering and eugenics in the early 20th century”
(University of Athens)
“Attitudes to Mental Illness and Treatment in turn‐of‐the‐20th Century Greece”
“Lay Narratives of Mental Illness at the Dromokaiteion Hospital, 1900‐1920”
(Democritus University of Thrace)
“Caring for TB patients in early 20th century Greece: The foundation and operation of Sotiria sanatorium, 1905‐1920”
(Oxford Brookes University)
“Social History of Medicine in Context”
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