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History of Hospitals
Aims:
The Network exists to promote studies related to the historical evolution of hospitals from their beginnings to the present day by providing an international forum for communication and discussion among scholars interested in the subject. Particular encouragement is given to newcomers to the field. It is hoped that collaborative research among members will be encouraged.
Activities:
For more information see the International Network for the History of Hospitals website:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/inhh/
Contact:
Christopher Bonfield
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History of Interwar Health
Aims:
Exchange of information, platform for discussions and contacts, international, workshops, publications.
Activities:
The network has organised two conferences, one in Groü-Breesen, Germany, entitled Health in Europe during the Interwar Years. Perspectives, Realities and Experiences in East and West – in May 2003, and the other entitled Crisis as Opportunity: International Rural Health Work between the Wars – in Granada, Spain in 2007:
The network has also organised several panels at conferences of the EAHMH and ESSHC.
Network meetings have resulted in the following publications:
Iris Borowy and Wolf D. Gruner (eds.), Facing Illness in Troubled Times. Health in Europe in the Interwar Years, 1918 - 1939 (Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 2005).
Esteban Rodriguez-Ocaœa and Patrick Zylberman (guest eds.), Improving Public Health amidst crises: the Interwar Year in Europe, Dynamis 28 (2008).
http://www.ugr.es/~dynamis/
Iris Borowy and Anne Hardy (eds.), Of Medicine and Men. Biographies and Ideas in European Social Medicine between the Wars (Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, forthcoming).
Contact:
Dr. Iris Borowy
Universität Rostock
Historisches Institut
August-Bebel-Str.28
18051 Rostock
Tel. 0381 / 498 27 34
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International Network for the History of Homeopathy
Aims:
International conferences, workshops, publications
Activities:
The network has organised several international conferences, for example in Budapest in 2003 and in Stuttgart in 2007. A conference on medical pluralism and homoeopathy in India and Germany will be held in Stuttgart in June/July 2011. For futher details, please see the Conferences page.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Martin Dinges
Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Straußweg 17
D-70184 Stuttgart
Tel.:0711 46084 167
Fax:0711 46084 181
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