The Many Faces of Irish Alcohol Abuse (Room 1.101)

Chair: Gareth Millward

1. “Some people, when they need a drink, they don’t care what they are drinking”: Treating Skid Row Alcoholism in London and New York in the 1960s – Steven J. Taylor
2. Traditional Music, Drug Use, and the Music Festival in Ireland, 1967-75 – Morgan Wait
3. “New Irish”, Old Problems? Drinking, Drug Use & Irish Migrants in New York City, c. 1980s-1990s – Alice Mauger

Therapeutic Spaces, Hospital Architecture (Room 1.402)

Chair: Guillaume Lachenal

1. Rethinking therapeutic landscapes: A more-than-human approach to hospital histories – Victoria Bates and Clare Hickman
2. Altnagelvin--The NHS's first hospital: Modernism, planning & politics in post-war hospital building in Northern Ireland – Sean Lucey
3. Medical Megastructures: Imaginaries and Conflicts in German Post-War Health Care Architecture – David Freis
4. The Social Democratic Carnivalesque: Herlev, a colorful hospital – Michael Baers

Beyond the State? Non-governmental Healthcare Providers During the 20th Century* (Room 1.403)

Chair: Sebastian Fonseca

1. Almoners and Charity Beyond the Hospital, 1895-1948 – Lynsey Cullen
2. Public health nursing and non-governmental organisations during the long 1950s Europe – Yuliya Hilevych, Gijs Hoekstra and Ilmari Railo
3. Humanitarian aid and securitisation - Cottage hospitals by the Red Cross of Finland in the Eastern border zone, 1920–30s – Hanna Kuusi
4. Family Matters. The Dynamics Between the Dutch Family Movement in Mental Health Care and Policy Makers, 1980-2000 – Irene Geerts

Disability in the Ancient World (Room 1.404)

Chair: Rebecca Flemming

1. Reorienting Illness: Cripping Aelius Aristides and Antony the Great – Kaitlin Karmen and SN Yeager
2. Disability and the Dynamics of Healing Authority in Greek and Egyptian Antiquity – Jasmine Sahu-Hough
3. Stigma and Disability Hierarchies in the Ancient Greco-Roman World – Katherine Petrasek

Lay Epistemologies (Room 1.405)

Chair: Marek Maj

1. Cancer and the doctor – patient relationship 1950 – 2000 in Sweden – Maria Josephson
2. An unnecessary anachronism? Lay death certification and causes of death in rural Denmark, 1832-1920 – Anna Lodberg Sparre
3. Looking for meaningful patienthood. The case of the Dutch patient organisation for women with a gynaecological cancer – Nele Beyens

Socialist Health Goes Global (Room 1.502)

Chair: Bogdan Iacob

1. Medicine as propaganda. Representation of the wartime health crisis in North Korea in the Polish media – Sławomir Łotysz
2. Socialist Transnational Biomedicine: The Case of COMECON's "Complex Groups" of Oncology Clinical Trials – Nils Graber
3. Between Socialist Cosmopolitanism and Realities: China’s Medical Aid to Tanzania during the Cold War Era 1960s to – Liang Wan
4. Gendered Mobilities? Hungarian Women Health Care Professionals and the Circulation of Socialist Medical Knowledge – Réka Krizmanics

Prevention and Preparedness (Room 1.504)

Chair: Fruzsina Müller

1. Two Hundred Years of Disease Carriers – Amir Teicher
2. Pandemic over-Preparedness: Japanese Public Health Experts and 1944 Influenza – Jorinde Wels
3. The role of women in rubella prevention in Spain and its autonomous communities (1960-2022) – María-Isabel Porras-Gallo
4. How Prevention Became Social: Public Health Atomism and Assemblage of the Dutch Immunization Programme, 1872-1959 – Martijn van der Meer

Childbirth and Parenthood in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries (Room 1.401)

Chair: Sarah Howard

1. Health Beyond Medicine: Family Planning and Motherhood – Susan Birch
2. Frequently Asked Parenting Questions: A Topic Modeling Approach to Trends in Parenting Advice Columns in Dutch Periodicals, 1946-2024 – Caro Lemmen
3. Pregnancy and Performance: Navigating Childbirth from Dublin Workhouses to New York Hospitals in the Mid-Nineteenth Century – Charlotte Rich

After the Single Use I. (Room 1.101)

Chair: Anne Kveim Lie

1. How to dispose of the disposables? Single-use plastics and the making of medical waste – Jeremy Greene
2. Incineration of medical waste in Tanzania: past, futures and the plight of single use medical devices – Peter Mangesho
3. Ecologies of Medical Waste – Khoudia Sow

Patient Organizations Enacting Disease* (Room 1.402)

Chair: Ylva Soderfeldt

1. Between production and consumption: negotiating patient identities in the British Diabetic Association and British Rheumatic Association – Andrew Burchell
2. The British Diabetic Association and the ‘Good Diabetic’ in Scotland – Luke Whittle
3. The promise of medical innovation, disability activism and shifting enactments of patients in Belgian multiple sclerosis associations (1960s-1990s) – Tim Debroyer
4. Patient Organizations and the Rationing Regime in France (1940-1949) – Julia Reed

National and International Approaches to Children’s Mental Health and Welfare in the 20^th Century (Room 1.403)

Chair: Ana Cergol Paradiz

1. Postwar Child Welfare and Psychological Care: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Slovenia (Yugoslavia) – Ana Cergol Paradiz
2. Child psychopathy in Denmark, 1909-1975 – Jesper Vaczy Kragh
3. Mental Hygiene and the Child guidance movement in India – Shilpi Rajpal

Water and Health (Room 1.404)

Chair: Kaat Wills

1. The Knowledge and Practice of Water Quality in Early Modern Europe – David Gentilcore
2. Environment, Agency and Health in Airs Waters Places – Rebecca Flemming
3. Poisonous Waters: Land drainage, Maroon ecologies, and environmental health in colonial Guiana – Thomas Anderson

Disability, Deservingness and Social Security* (Room 1.405)

Chair: Felix Rietmann

1. ‘Thanks for the moan!’ Viewing British citizens ideas of disability and deservingness through the medium of complaint (c. 1970–2010) – Gareth Millward
2. From cold rationality to modern rehabilitation: The changing image of disabled soldiers in Finnish medical journals from the 1940s to the 1970s – Mona Mannevuo
3. From Resistance to Recognition: The Evolution of Support for Danish World War II Victims 1945-1969 – Søren Werther Kjær Rasmussen

Politics of Race in the long 19^th century (Room 1.502)

Chair: Pablo Gomez

1. Cutting Through: Race, Class and the Historical Development of Cesarean Sections in Brazil (1845-1915) – Isabela De Oliveira Dornelas
2. Degeneration and Regeneration of Race and Class in Brain Studies (French and British Empires, 1750-1840) – Maxime Guttin
3. Slavery and Whitewashing 19th Century Medical Knowledge – Laura Smith

Entangled Temporalities of Health and Medicine in the Global World (Room 1.504)

Chair: Xinyi Wen

1. The Pulse-Watch Multiple: An Inquiry into the Temporalities of the Quantified Body – Yijie Huang
2. ‘Health is subject to daly mutabilityes’: the problem of timeliness in Theodore Turquet de Mayerne’s epistolary medical practice – Sheryl Wombell
3. Inventing a Healing Tradition across Time and Space: A Reversed History of the Doctrine of Signatures, 1885-1609 – Xinyi Wen
4. American Critique of European Models of Mental Health Care in Late 19th Century – James Thomas Ford

Health Beyond Medicine: Art, Film, Care and Activism

Birgit Nemec, Edmund Bolger, Edina Nagy, Eszter Lázár

Regional/Transnational Health Collaborations (Room 1.101)

Chair: Liang Wan

1. Intermedicine Case Report on Patient Care Between Eastern Bloc Countries – Tomas Filip
2. Diplomacy and Disease: The Establishment of the Superior Council of Health in Istanbul, 1831-1844 – Evren Cakil
3. “Our severe limitations and handicaps”: Contestations in the making of health policy within Indian federalism, 1950-1960 – Gourav Krishna Nandi

African Histories of Global Health (Room 1.402)

Chair: Guillaume Lachenal

1. Ugandan Virus Researchers and the Localities of Global – Julia Cummiskey
2. The Lives and Afterlives of Projet SIDA – Thomas McDow
3. The monkeypox research project in Zaire (1981-1986) : field-based perspectives – Jules Villa
4. Socialism in the history of African Health – David Bannister

Negotiating the Sexed Body (Room 1.403)

Chair: Ketil Slagstad

1. Slimy Vices and Unreliable Bodies: Sodomy and Subaltern (Ill)health in Early Modern Spain – Mónica Morado Vázquez
2. Beyond Diagnosis: Navigating Life with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) and Long-Term Cortisone Therapy in West Germany, ca. 1950-1990 – Sophia Wagemann
3. Timely Decisions. Temporal Contingencies in treating patients with DSD – Alik Mazukatow
4. Borderline cases: Reading 20th century medical case studies of variations of sex characteristics against histories of socio-political violence in Lebanon – Hannah Cowdell

Pharmaceutical Policies (Room 1.404)

Chair: Laurence Monnais

1. Identifying, reporting and managing drug-related risk: a look back at recent developments in French pharmacovigilance – Solène Lellinger
2. The Fault in Our Scars: Inscribing Smallpox Vaccination in Nineteenth-Century Britain – Matthew Newsom Kerr
3. Penicillin production in Post-War Hungary: Independent Yet Connected – Fruzsina Müller

Diagnoses and Identity in and Beyond Medicine (Room 1.405)

Chair: Dora Vargha

1. Approaching disease identities in late-modern medicine – Lara Keuck
2. History and memory in diagnoses of cancer and diabetes – Karin Tybjerg
3. ‘Race’, ‘ethnicity’ and gender in the delivery of genetic diagnoses and counselling in late-20th century Britain – Jenny Bangham
4. The “abdominal woman:” women’s pain and the transformation of gastrointestinal health in twentieth-century Britain and the United States – Lisa Haushofer

Mental Health and Dis-ability in Postcolonial Settings (Room 1.502)

Chair: Hans Pols

1. Psychiatric Epidemiology and the Globalization of Mental Health – Alfred Freeborn
2. Partition and the politics of psychiatry: Palestine, 1947-49 – Chris Sandal-Wilson
3. The Ghanaian Condition: Psychotherapeutics and Spirituality in Ghana since 1970 – Sarah Marks

Health Through Art and Image (Room 1.504)

Chair: Jonathan Reinarz

1. Places of Rest: Crafting Care in early Occupational Therapy, 1909-1917 – Sasha Mullally
2. Making hormones visible: patient photographs in early twentieth-century endocrinology – Disa Runeby
3. Shifting Strategies of Behaviour Transformation in the Early Soviet Health Education Film – Anna Toropova
4. The voices of psychiatric patients on BBC Radio: 1945 – 1970 – Deborah Cohen

Interpreting Social Inequalities of Health from Cause of Death Data (Room 1.401)

Chair: Ciara Breathnach

1. Premature death in the Irish district asylum system – Oonagh Walsh
2. Recreating the portrait of social disease in Vilnius from 1917 to 1937 – Aistis Žalnora
3. Space and Disease: Mapping health inequalities in Ireland, 1900-1922 – Stuart Clancy
4. Infant mortality and vague cause of death categorisation in Irish ‘Mother and Baby Homes’, 1922-1970 – Ciara Breathnach