COST Action CA22159 - National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 approved
26 July 2023
Isabel Amaral is the national representative in this COST Action, of which CIUHCT is co-responsible and which was approved on 12 May 2023. It's led by Barry Doyle, Professor of Health History, University of Huddersfield (UK).
CA22159 - National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000
Start date: 28/09/2023
End date: 27/09/2027
Main Proposer: United Kingdom
Network of Proposers - Full Member: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
Summary
The current state of the art in the history of healthcare suggests a significant divide in terms of themes, approaches, methods and even sources between historians working in different parts of Europe. This reflects separate research cultures and networks shaped by long-term approaches to the history of medicine including, the role of medic-historians, the social sciences, social and cultural history and even politics. Central to the Action will be scientific exchange around four research themes - Healthcare Provision, Healthcare Providers, Patients, and Finance - that will feed into the capacity building objectives. These thematic working groups will integrate and finesse diverse methods and approaches and extend knowledge and understanding of experience and sources currently in use across Europe. Through training events, skills exchange and publications the project will create critical mass in the history of European healthcare, providing support and an academic environment for scholars at all stages of their career. It will establish a platform for their work that addresses the dominance of Anglophone publication and presentation opportunities; create core groups across the continent to exchange ideas and produce collective outputs; enhance opportunities for research students and early career researchers to experience diverse academic cultures and approaches; and institute collegiate mentoring structures that will reduce hierarchies dominated by seniority and promote fair and equal opportunities irrespective of race, gender, age or class. The core methodological approach we will use will be comparative history.
Areas of Expertise
1. History and Archeology: History of ideas, intellectual history, history of science and technology 2. History and Archeology: Modern and contemporary history
3. History and Archeology: Social and economic history