Spurious Sentinels

Chair: Emily Webster

1. E is for the Environment – How Escherichia coli became a sentinel for environmental health – Claas Kirchhelle
2. Echoes of Ebola: Virus Hunting and the Making of Insecurity in Guinea – Emmanuelle Roth
3. From “vehicle of disease” to “canary in the coal mine”: the shellfish as sentinel in Great Britain, 1880-2000 – Emily Webster

Spaces of Psychiatric Care

Chair: TBA

1. 'Taking to the Bed': An Oral Historiography of mental & physical illness in Irish homes, 1930-1970 – Sarah O'Brien
2. Disability in Psychiatric Discourse: The Case of the Moslavina-Popovača Psychiatric Hospital (1930s-1950s) – Jelena Seferović
3. How to diagnose a hysteric: doctors, patients and families negotiating at the Eginitio Hospital, Athens, Greece, c.1900-1950 – Despo Kritsotaki
4. Imperial Plans, National Aspirations: Debates on Establishing Hungary’s First Mental Asylum – Janka Kovács

Risk and Statistics in State Socialist Healthcare

Chair: Nils Graber

1. Socialist Automated Healthcare Utopia: Medical Statistics, Risk, and Planning in the Late Czech Socialist Republic – Jakub Střelec
2. Managing Institutional Risks, Controlling Health: The Politics of Nutrition in Late Socialist Romania – Mara Marginean
3. “Image: it is the international language:” Transnational Exchanges of the Polish Anti-abortion Movement (1970s-1990s) – Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

How to be a Mother I

Chair: Laure Pesquet

1. Village outreaches, “health talks”, and education of women in child-rearing in Villa Maria and Mua Mission Hospitals, 1900s-1980s – Ivana Zečević
2. The Medical Missionaries of Mary and Baby Shows in Southern Nigeria, 1937-1960 – James Akpu
3. Agents of change: from medical doctors to volunteers. Figures of the medicalisation of maternity in the Gold Coast (West Africa), 1920-1940 – Anne Hugon

Sexual Health Beyond the Clinic

Chair: Anne Hanley

1. Prevalence, propaganda and prophylaxis: The symbiosis between campaigns and clinics – Anne Hanley
2. Learning to care: Gay men and sexual health in Britain before AIDS – Claire Martin
3. Students and sexual-health activism in late-twentieth-century England – Joseph Price

The Uses and Abuses of Psychoactive Substances

Chair: Claire Edington

1. More than a drug – Classification and interpretation of Valium in medicine and society – Paulina Gennermann
2. German cocaine in British India: Frank Bliss, Dr Roy, and Merck of Darmstadt, c. 1900-1912 – Jim Mills
3. “It made me feel how all of us would like to think we are anyway”: an emotional history of Ecstasy before rave – Peder Clark

After the Single Use II

Chair: Jeremy Greene

1. When Sterilization was Modern: Labor and Infrastructures of Reuse in Mid-20th Century Hospitals – Eloïse Richard
2. From Hospital Sterilization to Global Production Networks: The Hidden Costs of Disposability in Medicine – Anne Kveim Lie
3. Making Disposables Irresistible: Advertising Single-use Medical Masks in the 1960s – Bruno J. Strasser

Longterm Care Institutions

Chair: David Bannister

1. Tuberculosis Patient Demographic Trends in Twentieth-Century Canadian Maritime Sanatoria – Courtney Mrazek
2. Patients’ Labour, Amusements and Sports: Beyond Medicine, Gender and Agency in the Colonial Asylums in British South India – Santhosh Abraham
3. (De)colonizing Congolese leprosy care: The interrelation of colonial medical networks, foreign development aid and primary health care (1960-2000) – Felix Deckx
4. From Normandy to Caspian: Medical Retreats, Birth of Tourism, and Urban Planning in Iran (1920s-1940s) - Kamyar Salavati

Regulating the Doctor-Patient Encounter

Chair: Volker Hess

1. ‘Playing with dolls: The emergence of simulation in twentieth-century British healthcare training’ – Jonathan Reinarz and Gayle Davis
2. Regulating the medical profession: complaints to the Seine Medical Council (1940s) – Claire Barillé
3. The Programmed Patient: The Standardization of the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Medical Education, 1960-1990 – Nora O'Neill
4. Beyond Vulnerability: Practices of Self-Advocacy and Patient Autonomy in Medical Context in the 1970s Hungary – Viola Lászlófi

How to Be a Mother II.

Chair: Ivana Zečević

1. Midwives and Reproductive Injustice in Colonial and Semi-Colonial Egypt – Laure Pesquet
2. Educating Mothers about ‘Scientific’ Child Healthcare: Medicine, Mothercraft and Baby Week Exhibitions in British India and Beyond – Ranjana Saha
3. A Drop of Milk (Goutte de lait) in the Indian Ocean – Counting the Dead Before Caring for the Living (1912-1951) – Thierry Buhé

Governing the Microbial

Chair: Claas Kirchhelle

1. Of Promiscuous Plasmids and Itinerant Patients: How Resistance Became a Global Health Crisis – Purbasha Mazumdar
2. 'Wild Bacteria and Friendly Germs: Battle Creek Sanitarium and the Science of the Gut' – Elsa Richadson
3. The “hospital consciente”: collective consciousness, distributed responsibility, and antimicrobial governance in the public Spanish hospital – Cristina Moreno Lozano

Situating Sexual Health

Chair: Katerina Liskova

1. Sex Work, Outreach Projects and Meanings of ‘Health’ at the Height of Britain’s HIV Epidemic – Lola Dickinson
2. Adhunik Kamshastra: A Scientific Art of Love in 20th century Bengal – Sohini Mukhopadhyay
3. Curing the Body and Healing the Nation: Venereal Disease, Sexology and Social Hygiene in Inter-war India(1920-1950) – Arnav Bhattacharya
4. Migration Narratives and sexual health experiences in late twentieth-century London – Caroline Rusterholz and George Severs

Mental Health to Desinstitutionalisation

Chair: Catherine Coleborne

1. Positioning the mental health aftercare patient and soldier citizen in Trelowarren Rehabilitation Base, 1949-1970 – Effie Karageorgos
2. Understanding Deinstitutionalisation in the Capital: London, Community Care and the 1959 Mental Health Act – Rob Ellis
3. Deinstitutionalisation and then What? How the Civil Sector Organised Community Care in NSW in the 1980s – Hans Pols
4. Practicing Aftercare: Patterns in ‘Post-Institutional’ Mental Health in Australia, 1907 to 1930 – Catharine Coleborne

Strategies of Reproductive Health in the Postwar Era

Chair: Edna Suárez-Díaz

1. The emergence of Black Women’s Centers: Programming the right to (sexual and reproductive) health in the 1980s – Naomi Samake-Bäckert
2. Anti-abortion crisis pregnancy counselling in Ireland, c.1977-92 – Laura Kelly
3. Genetic Counseling in Socialist Countries in the Interplay of Scientific Progress and Disability Politics – Victoria Shmidt and Barna Szamosi
4. Soviet Studies on Contraception and Infertility: The USSR in the WHO Program on Human Reproduction, 1970s-1980s – Anna Ivanova

Standardization and Social Inequalities in Health

Chair: Sebastian Fonseca

1. A Universal Housing Record? The Transnational History of the Casier sanitaire des maisons, 1871-1945 – Stephan Strunz
2. "Evidence of the Lowest Social Class": Forensic Medicine, Public Health, and Social Realities in Greece (1913-1940) – Natalia Tsourma
3. Imperfect union: Population biology, social inequality, and the emergence of chronic disease epidemiology at Johns Hopkins – Carolina Mayes
4. Scarce Measurement: The Rise of Health Economics in Federal Health Planning, 1950s-1970s – George Aumoithe

Spaces of Health Beyond Medicine

Chair: TBA

1. Figuring Hygiene: The Institute Dalcroze, the Deutsche Werksätten, and the Rhythm of the Series in Early Twentieth-Century Dresden – Brianne Wesolowski
2. Floating Labors, Floating Bodies: Health, Trust, and Colonial Power – Madhwi Madhwi
3. Architecture and the Globalization of Quarantine in the Long Nineteenth Century – David Monteyne

Psychiatric Practices and Migration in the Second Half of the 20^th Century

Chair: Kaat Wils

1. Intertwinned Contestations: Resisting the Psychiatricization of Immigrant Patients (Romandy, 1960s-1980s) – Alice Aigrain
2. Vulnerable Masculinities: Turkish Workers in Psychiatric Institutions (Berlin, 1960s-1970s) – Benoit Majerus
3. Spanish patients in Brookwood Psychiatric Hospital, England, 1950-1975 – Lena Monème
4. Mid-20th-century French perspectives on migration: from the “ethnic factor” to the “social psychopathology” approach – Marianna Scarfone

Pain and Comfort in Women’s Healthcare

Chair: Elaine Leong

1. Voiceless or Painless? Tracing Attitudes and Agency in British Endometriosis Care in the 20th Century – Sophie Aimée Ahlemeyer
2. Beyond female healthcare – medicine, ritual and community in the Early medieval West – Lilian Diniz
3. The “abdominal woman:” women’s pain and the transformation of gastrointestinal health in twentieth-century Britain and the United States – Lisa Haushofer
4. Rika Zaraï's Natural Medicine: "Mrs. Herbal Tea" or Health Without Doctors – Léo Bernard

Disease Ecologies

Chair: Warwick Anderson

1. ‘All except malaria’? An environmental history of malarias and neglect in the Belgian Congo (1910 – 1940) – Hannah de Korte
2. Entangled diseases: how malaria influenced Singapore’s dengue control program in the 1960s – Timothy Sim
3. From 1957 to 2007: the ecology of influenza from surveys in animals to viral sovereignty – Giacomo Simoncelli
4. America's Fight against Rabid Dogs and Human Rabies in the Philippines, 1910-1930 – Arleigh Ross Dela Cruz

Health and Medical Encounters in Translation

Chair: TBA

1. Alcoholism and the colonial encounter in Portuguese occupied Africa – João Tavares
2. American Critique of European Models of Mental Health Care in Late 19th Century – James Thomas Ford
3. Anatomical Knowledge in Translation: Benjamin Hobson's Quanti xinlun (1851) and the Material Transformation of Western Medical Texts in East Asia – Julia Zhou

Child Patients in 20^th Century Sanatoria

Chair: Cansu Degirmencioglu

1. The Silesian paediatrician Adolph Baginsky and his concept of an open-air school for children with tuberculosis in the Berlin Grunewald Forest – Andreas Jüttemann
2. From the mountains to the sea: The therapeutic role of climate and the natural environment in Finnish paediatric tuberculosis sanatoria prior to WWII – Heini Hakosalo
3. Healing lungs and bodies: Children’s sanatoria at Lake Balaton from the First to the Second World War – Friederike Kind-Kovács

Morality and Social Control

Chair: Markus Wahl

1. Between Stigma and Acceptance – The Role of Tattoos at the Beginning of the AIDS Epidemic in the Federal Republic of Germany – Claudia Schmidt
2. Alcoholism as a medical and social problem in Porto in the second half of the 19th century: science, morality and social control – Célia Oliveira
3. Drug dependency in Denmark 1920-1955 – Ida Dorph Nørskov

Epidemic Governance

Chair: Felix Rietmann

1. Sanitary Nationalism: Body, Germs, and State-Building in the Patriotic Health Campaign, 1952-60s – Han Zhang
2. ‘An Infectious and Epidemic form:’ “Kukuruku Disease” and Public Health Intervention in 1920s Colonial Benin Province – Adewale Onagbesan
3. Society, Health and Epidemic: Plague Regulations, Rumours, and Public Reactions in United Provinces (1897-1910) – Swapnil Chaudhary

Shifting Ontologies of Health

Chair: Bruno J. Strasser

1. The medical understanding of smell throughout history – Mojca Ramšak
2. Grooming and bathing: The political metaphysics of health in Habsburg Kraków – Marek Maj
3. Winds of War: The Revival of Miasma Theory in Europe During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic – John Eicher

Psychiatric research beyond medicine

Chair: Alfred Freeborn

1. Visualizing Schizophrenia in Mid-Twentieth Century Psychiatric Research – Ketil Slagstad
2. Rascals, deviants, and tyrants – the treatment and connotations of aggression in children and adolescents in German psychiatric institutions between 1945 and 1989 – Tamara Mansaray
3. Child aggression in focus: the discovery of a new field of medical research (1960-1990) – Anne Oommen-Halbach
4. Diagnosis Beyond the Clinic: The Legal Guardianship of Schizophrenia Patients in Zurich, 1900-1930 – Timo Houtekamer

Hypnotism and Treatment of Sexuality Since the Late 19^th Century

Chair: Antje Van Kerckhove

1. Curing sexual perversions through hypnosis in late 19th century Belgium – Kaat Wils
2. Trans in Trance: A Case Study of Hypnosis in Trans Healthcare – Esther Lamberts
3. Treating vaginismus through hypnosis: a story of rise and decline? (Belgium, 1960s-present) – Antje Van Kerckhove