9:00–10:30
Panel Session 1

Consumers and Co-Designers (Room 1.101)

Chair: Lauren Kassell

1. From patients and users to co-designers and consumers: diabetics and their diabetes management tools in the twentieth century – Elizabeth Neswald
2. Studying personality between psychiatry and fashion – Chiara Lacroix
3. Beyond the Screen: Tracing the Legacy of Feminist Health Movements in Today's FemTech – Anne-Sophie Reichert

Health Beyond the State (Room 1.402)

Chair: Gisela Mateos

1. Childcare, health and gender: competing visions in socialist Ethiopia – Sarah Howard
2. Mozambique’s Village Health Workers: from cornerstone of the primary health policy to a perceived failure (1977-1983) – Alila Brossard Antonielli
3. From Cross to Crescent: Identity and Aid in the Ottoman Red Crescent Society – Christin Zurbach

Spatial Imaginaries in the 19-20^th Centuries (Room 1.403)

Chair: Chris Sandal-Wilson

1. Besieged by Contagion: The Contribution of Italo-Tunisian Physicians in the Development of a Contagionist-Besieging Imaginary – Giorgio Ennas
2. Ideal Locations for Vaccination? Stabilization of Cholera Vaccination Practices in Japan and the Geographical Considerations of Epidemics (1893–1926) – Shiori Nosaka
3. Hygiene, Space, and Belonging: Architecture, Rural Reform and Health Policies in Eastern Thrace (1930s-1940s) – Cansu Degirmencioglu
4. Where is Turkey? Geographical Imaginaries of Health and Epidemiological Occidentalism (1940s-1980s) – Léa Delmaire

Abortion Beyond Medicine* (Room 1.404)

Chair: Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

1. Women on trial: The influence of forensic medicine in cases of abortion, infanticide, and child abandonment in Colombia (1905-1966) – Ángela Lucía Agudelo-González
2. Abortion on trial: Doctors, the courts, and media coverage in Spain and Canada, 1970s-1980s. – Agata Ignaciuk, Christabelle Sethna
3. Between punitiveness and autonomy: Social discourses around self-managed abortion in Spain (1985-2020) – María Mundi-López
4. Abortion as a criminal offense: Court cases in Greece during the first half of the 20th century – Martha Vasili

Producing and Negotiating Evidence (Room 1.405)

Chair: Gareth Millward

1. The Historical Debates Surrounding Aircraft Fume Events – Stephen Mawdsley
2. Competitive collaboration: international data-sharing in the treatment of end stage renal disease, 1964-1989 – Alexandra Geisthövel
3. Creating a Global Pediatric Market: Child Health, Childhood Allergy and the Marketing of Antihistamines in the Post-World War II Period – Felix Rietmann
4. Against Reliability – Simon Brausch

Health, Diplomacy and Development (Room 1.502)

Chair: Lu Chen

1. Between health and diplomacy: The 1851 International Sanitary Conference and the Greek state – Yannis Gonatidis
2. Transnational Practice of Public Health: A Case Study of Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Disease Control Project in the Pinghsiang Colliery in China – Yexin Liu
3. "International agencies and the fight against hunger in the Cold War: The Food for Peace in Latin America" – Romulo de Paula Andrade

Environment and Health (Room 1.504)

Chair: Projit Mukharji

1. Transformations of Health in Agricultural Sciences and Technology in India’s Punjab Davina – Kaur Patel
2. “The Superflies Will Free Us”: Zoonotic disease, atomic energy, and sterilization at the US-Mexico Border – Lauren Killingsworth

Patient Activism and Resistance to Unjust Policies (Room 1.401)

Chair: Birgit Nemec

1. Linas Hatsedek. Grassroots initiatives to organize medical care for Polish Jews in the first half of the 20th century – Marek Tuszewicki
2. “A Psychological Sort of Pressure”: Mental Health, Activism, and the Prevention of Terrorism Act – Hannah Kempel

11:00–12:30
Panel session 2

Worlds of Labor, Worlds of Health: Occupational Health and Safety in State Socialism (Room 1.101)

Chair: Agata Ignaciuk

1. Translating workers’ health across the Iron Curtain: transnational formation in occupational health and safety of Romanian professionals in the 1970s – Corina Doboș
2. Women experts, occupational health and the redefinition of women’s work in the 1950s Poland – Natalia Jarska
3. Protecting Women’s Bodies at Work: Early Soviet Debates on Occupational Health and Industrial Labor – Almira Sharafeeva

The Body in Parts (Room 1.402)

Chair: Jenny Bangham

1. Saving Infants: Rh Disease and Twentieth-Century Blood Transfusion Practices in France – Margaret Andersen
2. 'Respectful use': Defining norms for the handling of donated bodies in Dutch medical institutions, 1975–2025 – Hieke Huistra

Migration and Health (Room 1.403)

Chair: Anne Kveim Lie

1. “These diseases are primarily those of […] the enemy of European civilization”: German Migrants and the Pathologization of “The Other” in Brazil, ca. 1850–1930 – Markus Wahl
2. Refugees, illness, and care in interwar Greece: International organizations and the emergence of public health institutions – Aimilia (Emilia) Salvanou
3. ‘She jabbers away in French’: Experiences of Belgian Refugees in British Asylums 1914-1919 – Ute Oswald and Rob Ellis

Political Epistemologies (Room 1.404)

Chair: Amir Teicher

1. Nineteenth-Century Narratives and the Public Health Theory of Violence – Sophie Franklin
2. Pathologies of Power: Towards a History of Nazi Epidemiology – Lukas Engelmann
3. The Making of the ‘Modern Thai Mind’: Mental Hygiene, Child Guidance, Social Psychiatry, and Revolution – Krittapak Ngamvaseenont

Voicing Trauma: Emotional Suffering in the 20^th Century* (Room 1.405)

Chair: Despo Kritsotaki

1. Life Lines: a case study of 20th century Irish parents lived experiences of grief following Stillbirth – Ciara Henderson
2. Men who cry: Disorderly emotions, sexuality, and the construction of neurasthenia in early 20th century Greece – Dimitra Vassiliadou
3. “Dependent on a device [...] a terrible thought!“ An emotional history of artificial respiration from iron lung to home ventilation – Lea Münch

Women, Children and Medical Expertise (Room 1.502)

Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovacs

1. ‘Kingdoms of Babes’: Home Nurseries as ‘Medico-Moral’ Domains of Infants in America, 1850s-1920s – Elisabeth Yang
2. Neurotic child and the psychiatry in the 1960s in Poland – Natalia Pamula
3. Contested Care: Women Experts, Child Health, and Socialist Values in Cold War Czechoslovakia – Katerina Liskova
4. Promoting women’s emancipation in socialist Hungary: pediatrician Emmi Pikler, early childhood care and transnational knowledge circulation, 1950s-1960s – Annina Gagyiova

Biomedical Technologies: Testing, Tracing, Planning (Room 1.504)

Chair: Lu Chen

1. Medical Research and the Human Genome Project in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France (1989-1993) – Raphaël Lavie
2. What is being tested? Making and debating HIV testing and screening policies in Greece (1983-2000) – Katerina Vlantoni, Marilena Pateraki, Kostas Raptis, Eirini Savaidou. Athanasios Barlagiannis
3. Track, Test, and Blame: Tracing ‘Contacts’ in British Contagion Narratives, c.1850-1920 – Elise Smith

Political Ecologies as Cross-Disciplinary Networks – scales, directionality, and a multiplicity of objects (Room 1.401)

Discussant: Lara Keuck

1. Mapping a political ecology of human congenital toxoplasmosis at the intersection of history of medicine and historical epistemology of the life sciences – Hanna Lucia Worliczek
2. A political ecology of the opioid crisis: Constructing alternative understandings of a public health emergency – Ariane Hanemaayer
3. Political Ecologies of Personalized Medicine: Critical approaches to data-driven health – Saheli Datta Burton
4. Moderated round up discussion with the panelists – Lara Keuck

13:00–14:15
Lunchtime Roundtables and Conversation Sessions

The future of associations (Room 1.101)

Pablo Gomez, Claire Edington, Ahmed Ragab & Dora Vargha

Researching the ‘mundane’ (Room 1.402)

Victoria Bates & Barbara Caddick

Making the Medical Mask (Room 1.403)

Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich, The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air (Yale UP, 2025), with David Gentilcore, Christoph Gradmann, Anne Kveim Lie & Lu Chen.

14:30–16:00
Panel session 3

Challenging Narratives: Decentering the History of HIV/AIDS in Europe (Room 1.101)

Chair: Nikolaos Papadogiannis

1. People with HIV in Photographs of Valery Khristoforov and Jürgen Baldiga – Katerina Suverina and Andrei Zavadski
2. The HIV Text in the Russophone Contemporary Culture – Alexander Meienberger
3. HIV and AIDS campaigns, religious practices and Black African communities in the UK, 1996-2008 – Nikolaos Papadogiannis
4. “To Europe — Yes, but…”: HIV/AIDS and the Negotiating of Global Concepts and Local Realities in Poland, 1985 — 1995 – Katarzyna Szarla

Medicalizing and the Unconscious (Room 1.402)

Chair: Sarah Marks

1. The Therapeutic Language of Emotions: Medicalized Mindfulness in Mass Media in the 2000s – Josephine Selander, Laurence Monnais and Flavio Rossi
2. Medicalising the Unconscious in the Late Soviet Union (1950s–1980s) – Roman Mamin
3. Destroying the Brain to Cure the Mind: The History of Psychosurgery – Lukas J. Meier

Regulating the Disabled Body (Room 1.403)

Chair: Jonathan Reinarz

1. Medicine or Miracle?: Deaf Cure and Its Ideological Implications in Socialist China – Shu Wan
2. Workers’ Health and Disability: Workplace accident trials in Greece, 1920-1940 – Nikos Kastrinakis
3. Common, Dependent, or Educable? The Recognition of Physically Disabled Children’s Educational Needs in Belgium via the Common Fund, 1900-1940 – Marisa De Picker
4. Disabled Veterans Beyond Medicine: Spiritual Wounds During The 1930s – Michael Robinson

Informing Health from the Outside 1945-2000 (Room 1.404)

Chair: Lukas Engelmann

1. When Infectious Diseases Became Wild: Plague Reservoirs and Disease Ecology in the Americas (1940s-1970s) – Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva
2. Reframing Environmental Health: The Human Exposome in the early 21st century – Sammie Jansen
3. Evolving Concepts of Disease and Large-Scale Data and AI in Medicine – Marie-Christine Fritzsche

Experimenting with Public Health (Room 1.405)

Chair: Alila Brossard Antonielli

1. Global Histories of Community Health: A reflection on community participation in Global Health – Sebastián Fonseca
2. The road to community health programs: Mexico’s experiments in applied anthropology (1920-1955) – Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz
3. Strategic Collaboration in Transition: Expanded Programme on Immunization in China – Lu Chen
4. Romania, Medicinal Plants and Counter-hegemonic Cooperation in Global Health during the late Cold War – Bogdan C. Iacob

Organizing Networks of Knowledge and Practice (Room 1.502)

Chair: Tillmann Taape

1. Beyond Medicine: Meeting Hygieia – Bastienne Klein
2. The 1950s provincial doctor crisis and the reorganisation of Swedish primary care – Helene Castenbrandt
3. The Hidden Pedagogical Networks of Dr. William Cullen – Jeffrey Wolf
4. Couching or Extraction? For a Historical Sociology of Cataract Surgery (18th -19th Century) – Corinne Doria

Religion and Medicine (Room 1.504)

Chair: Ahmed Ragab

1. Good Christian care ? Care practicing in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay (18th century) – Marie Vesco
2. "L'administration l'ignore." Religion, politics and 'patient activism' in the Salpêtrière (1880-1905) – Marie van Haaster

16:30–18:00
Keynote by Elaine Leong (UCL)

19:00
Floating lecture – Andreas Jüttemann: Berlin Medical History Boat Tour (optional)

9:00–10:30
Session 7

Spurious Sentinels (Room 1.101)

Chair: Julia Cummiskey

1. E is for the Environment – How Escherichia coli became a sentinel for environmental health – Claas Kirchhelle
2. 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 (Room 1.402)

Chair: Sarah Marks

1. Disability in Psychiatric Discourse: The Case of the Moslavina-Popovača Psychiatric Hospital (1930s-1950s) – Jelena Seferović
2. How to diagnose a hysteric: doctors, patients and families negotiating at the Eginitio Hospital, Athens, Greece, c.1900-1950 – Despo Kritsotaki
3. Imperial Plans, National Aspirations: Debates on Establishing Hungary’s First Mental Asylum – Janka Kovács

Risk and Statistics in State Socialist Healthcare (Room 1.403)

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 (Room 1.404)

Chair: Yuliya Hilevych

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 (Room 1.405) 

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 (Room 1.502)

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

11:00–12:30
Session 8

After the Single Use II (Room 1.101)

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 (Room 1.402)

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 (Room 1.403)

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. (Room 1.404)

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 (Room 1.405)

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

Situating Sexual Health (Room 1.502)

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 (Room 1.504)

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

12:30–13:30
General Assembly of the EAHMH

13:30–15:00
Session 9

Strategies of Reproductive Health in the Postwar Era (Room 1.101)

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. Genetic Counseling in Socialist Countries in the Interplay of Scientific Progress and Disability Politics – Victoria Shmidt and Barna Szamosi
3. 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 (Room 1.402)

Chair: Jean-Paul Gaudilliere

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 (Room 1.403)

Chair: Sebastian Fonseca

1. Figuring Hygiene: The Institute Dalcroze, the Deutsche Werksätten, and the Rhythm of the Series in Early Twentieth-Century Dresden – Brianne Wesolowski
2. From Normandy to Caspian: Medical Retreats, Birth of Tourism, and Urban Planning in Iran (1920s-1940s) – Kamyar Salavati

Psychiatric Practices and Migration in the Second Half of the 20^th Century (Room 1.404)

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 (Room 1.405)

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

Disease Ecologies (Room 1.502)

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

15:30–17:00
Session 10

Child Patients in 20th Century Sanatoria* (Room 1.101)

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 (Room 1.402)

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
4. Alcoholism and the colonial encounter in Portuguese occupied Africa – João Tavares

Epidemic Governance (Room 1.403)

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 (Room 1.404)

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 (Room 1.405)

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 (Room 1.502)

Chair: Sophie Ahlmeyer

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

9:00–10:30
Panel Session 1

Consumers and Co-Designers (Room 1.101)

Chair: Lauren Kassell

1. From patients and users to co-designers and consumers: diabetics and their diabetes management tools in the twentieth century – Elizabeth Neswald
2. Studying personality between psychiatry and fashion – Chiara Lacroix
3. Beyond the Screen: Tracing the Legacy of Feminist Health Movements in Today's FemTech – Anne-Sophie Reichert

Health Beyond the State (Room 1.402)

Chair: Gisela Mateos

1. Childcare, health and gender: competing visions in socialist Ethiopia – Sarah Howard
2. Mozambique’s Village Health Workers: from cornerstone of the primary health policy to a perceived failure (1977-1983) – Alila Brossard Antonielli
3. From Cross to Crescent: Identity and Aid in the Ottoman Red Crescent Society – Christin Zurbach

Spatial Imaginaries in the 19-20^th Centuries (Room 1.403)

Chair: Chris Sandal-Wilson

1. Besieged by Contagion: The Contribution of Italo-Tunisian Physicians in the Development of a Contagionist-Besieging Imaginary – Giorgio Ennas
2. Ideal Locations for Vaccination? Stabilization of Cholera Vaccination Practices in Japan and the Geographical Considerations of Epidemics (1893–1926) – Shiori Nosaka
3. Hygiene, Space, and Belonging: Architecture, Rural Reform and Health Policies in Eastern Thrace (1930s-1940s) – Cansu Degirmencioglu
4. Where is Turkey? Geographical Imaginaries of Health and Epidemiological Occidentalism (1940s-1980s) – Léa Delmaire

Abortion Beyond Medicine* (Room 1.404)

Chair: Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

1. Women on trial: The influence of forensic medicine in cases of abortion, infanticide, and child abandonment in Colombia (1905-1966) – Ángela Lucía Agudelo-González
2. Abortion on trial: Doctors, the courts, and media coverage in Spain and Canada, 1970s-1980s. – Agata Ignaciuk, Christabelle Sethna
3. Between punitiveness and autonomy: Social discourses around self-managed abortion in Spain (1985-2020) – María Mundi-López
4. Abortion as a criminal offense: Court cases in Greece during the first half of the 20th century – Martha Vasili

Producing and Negotiating Evidence (Room 1.405)

Chair: Gareth Millward

1. The Historical Debates Surrounding Aircraft Fume Events – Stephen Mawdsley
2. Competitive collaboration: international data-sharing in the treatment of end stage renal disease, 1964-1989 – Alexandra Geisthövel
3. Creating a Global Pediatric Market: Child Health, Childhood Allergy and the Marketing of Antihistamines in the Post-World War II Period – Felix Rietmann
4. Against Reliability – Simon Brausch

Health, Diplomacy and Development (Room 1.502)

Chair: Lu Chen

1. Between health and diplomacy: The 1851 International Sanitary Conference and the Greek state – Yannis Gonatidis
2. Transnational Practice of Public Health: A Case Study of Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Disease Control Project in the Pinghsiang Colliery in China – Yexin Liu
3. "International agencies and the fight against hunger in the Cold War: The Food for Peace in Latin America" – Romulo de Paula Andrade

Environment and Health (Room 1.504)

Chair: Projit Mukharji

1. Transformations of Health in Agricultural Sciences and Technology in India’s Punjab Davina – Kaur Patel
2. “The Superflies Will Free Us”: Zoonotic disease, atomic energy, and sterilization at the US-Mexico Border – Lauren Killingsworth

Patient Activism and Resistance to Unjust Policies (Room 1.401)

Chair: Birgit Nemec

1. Linas Hatsedek. Grassroots initiatives to organize medical care for Polish Jews in the first half of the 20th century – Marek Tuszewicki
2. “A Psychological Sort of Pressure”: Mental Health, Activism, and the Prevention of Terrorism Act – Hannah Kempel

11:00–12:30
Panel session 2

Worlds of Labor, Worlds of Health: Occupational Health and Safety in State Socialism (Room 1.101)

Chair: Agata Ignaciuk

1. Translating workers’ health across the Iron Curtain: transnational formation in occupational health and safety of Romanian professionals in the 1970s – Corina Doboș
2. Women experts, occupational health and the redefinition of women’s work in the 1950s Poland – Natalia Jarska
3. Protecting Women’s Bodies at Work: Early Soviet Debates on Occupational Health and Industrial Labor – Almira Sharafeeva

The Body in Parts (Room 1.402)

Chair: Jenny Bangham

1. Saving Infants: Rh Disease and Twentieth-Century Blood Transfusion Practices in France – Margaret Andersen
2. 'Respectful use': Defining norms for the handling of donated bodies in Dutch medical institutions, 1975–2025 – Hieke Huistra

Migration and Health (Room 1.403)

Chair: Anne Kveim Lie

1. “These diseases are primarily those of […] the enemy of European civilization”: German Migrants and the Pathologization of “The Other” in Brazil, ca. 1850–1930 – Markus Wahl
2. Refugees, illness, and care in interwar Greece: International organizations and the emergence of public health institutions – Aimilia (Emilia) Salvanou
3. ‘She jabbers away in French’: Experiences of Belgian Refugees in British Asylums 1914-1919 – Ute Oswald and Rob Ellis

Political Epistemologies (Room 1.404)

Chair: Amir Teicher

1. Nineteenth-Century Narratives and the Public Health Theory of Violence – Sophie Franklin
2. Pathologies of Power: Towards a History of Nazi Epidemiology – Lukas Engelmann
3. The Making of the ‘Modern Thai Mind’: Mental Hygiene, Child Guidance, Social Psychiatry, and Revolution – Krittapak Ngamvaseenont

Voicing Trauma: Emotional Suffering in the 20^th Century* (Room 1.405)

Chair: Despo Kritsotaki

1. Life Lines: a case study of 20th century Irish parents lived experiences of grief following Stillbirth – Ciara Henderson
2. Men who cry: Disorderly emotions, sexuality, and the construction of neurasthenia in early 20th century Greece – Dimitra Vassiliadou
3. “Dependent on a device [...] a terrible thought!“ An emotional history of artificial respiration from iron lung to home ventilation – Lea Münch

Women, Children and Medical Expertise (Room 1.502)

Chair: Friederike Kind-Kovacs

1. ‘Kingdoms of Babes’: Home Nurseries as ‘Medico-Moral’ Domains of Infants in America, 1850s-1920s – Elisabeth Yang
2. Neurotic child and the psychiatry in the 1960s in Poland – Natalia Pamula
3. Contested Care: Women Experts, Child Health, and Socialist Values in Cold War Czechoslovakia – Katerina Liskova
4. Promoting women’s emancipation in socialist Hungary: pediatrician Emmi Pikler, early childhood care and transnational knowledge circulation, 1950s-1960s – Annina Gagyiova

Biomedical Technologies: Testing, Tracing, Planning (Room 1.504)

Chair: Lu Chen

1. Medical Research and the Human Genome Project in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France (1989-1993) – Raphaël Lavie
2. What is being tested? Making and debating HIV testing and screening policies in Greece (1983-2000) – Katerina Vlantoni, Marilena Pateraki, Kostas Raptis, Eirini Savaidou. Athanasios Barlagiannis
3. Track, Test, and Blame: Tracing ‘Contacts’ in British Contagion Narratives, c.1850-1920 – Elise Smith

Political Ecologies as Cross-Disciplinary Networks – scales, directionality, and a multiplicity of objects (Room 1.401)

Discussant: Lara Keuck

1. Mapping a political ecology of human congenital toxoplasmosis at the intersection of history of medicine and historical epistemology of the life sciences – Hanna Lucia Worliczek
2. A political ecology of the opioid crisis: Constructing alternative understandings of a public health emergency – Ariane Hanemaayer
3. Political Ecologies of Personalized Medicine: Critical approaches to data-driven health – Saheli Datta Burton
4. Moderated round up discussion with the panelists – Lara Keuck

13:00–14:15
Lunchtime Roundtables and Conversation Sessions

The future of associations (Room 1.101)

Pablo Gomez, Claire Edington, Ahmed Ragab & Dora Vargha

Researching the ‘mundane’ (Room 1.402)

Victoria Bates & Barbara Caddick

Making the Medical Mask (Room 1.403)

Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich, The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air (Yale UP, 2025), with David Gentilcore, Christoph Gradmann, Anne Kveim Lie & Lu Chen.

14:30–16:00
Panel session 3

Challenging Narratives: Decentering the History of HIV/AIDS in Europe (Room 1.101)

Chair: Nikolaos Papadogiannis

1. People with HIV in Photographs of Valery Khristoforov and Jürgen Baldiga – Katerina Suverina and Andrei Zavadski
2. The HIV Text in the Russophone Contemporary Culture – Alexander Meienberger
3. HIV and AIDS campaigns, religious practices and Black African communities in the UK, 1996-2008 – Nikolaos Papadogiannis
4. “To Europe — Yes, but…”: HIV/AIDS and the Negotiating of Global Concepts and Local Realities in Poland, 1985 — 1995 – Katarzyna Szarla

Medicalizing and the Unconscious (Room 1.402)

Chair: Sarah Marks

1. The Therapeutic Language of Emotions: Medicalized Mindfulness in Mass Media in the 2000s – Josephine Selander, Laurence Monnais and Flavio Rossi
2. Medicalising the Unconscious in the Late Soviet Union (1950s–1980s) – Roman Mamin
3. Destroying the Brain to Cure the Mind: The History of Psychosurgery – Lukas J. Meier

Regulating the Disabled Body (Room 1.403)

Chair: Jonathan Reinarz

1. Medicine or Miracle?: Deaf Cure and Its Ideological Implications in Socialist China – Shu Wan
2. Workers’ Health and Disability: Workplace accident trials in Greece, 1920-1940 – Nikos Kastrinakis
3. Common, Dependent, or Educable? The Recognition of Physically Disabled Children’s Educational Needs in Belgium via the Common Fund, 1900-1940 – Marisa De Picker
4. Disabled Veterans Beyond Medicine: Spiritual Wounds During The 1930s – Michael Robinson

Informing Health from the Outside 1945-2000 (Room 1.404)

Chair: Lukas Engelmann

1. When Infectious Diseases Became Wild: Plague Reservoirs and Disease Ecology in the Americas (1940s-1970s) – Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva
2. Reframing Environmental Health: The Human Exposome in the early 21st century – Sammie Jansen
3. Evolving Concepts of Disease and Large-Scale Data and AI in Medicine – Marie-Christine Fritzsche

Experimenting with Public Health (Room 1.405)

Chair: Alila Brossard Antonielli

1. Global Histories of Community Health: A reflection on community participation in Global Health – Sebastián Fonseca
2. The road to community health programs: Mexico’s experiments in applied anthropology (1920-1955) – Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz
3. Strategic Collaboration in Transition: Expanded Programme on Immunization in China – Lu Chen
4. Romania, Medicinal Plants and Counter-hegemonic Cooperation in Global Health during the late Cold War – Bogdan C. Iacob

Organizing Networks of Knowledge and Practice (Room 1.502)

Chair: Tillmann Taape

1. Beyond Medicine: Meeting Hygieia – Bastienne Klein
2. The 1950s provincial doctor crisis and the reorganisation of Swedish primary care – Helene Castenbrandt
3. The Hidden Pedagogical Networks of Dr. William Cullen – Jeffrey Wolf
4. Couching or Extraction? For a Historical Sociology of Cataract Surgery (18th -19th Century) – Corinne Doria

Religion and Medicine (Room 1.504)

Chair: Ahmed Ragab

1. Good Christian care ? Care practicing in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay (18th century) – Marie Vesco
2. "L'administration l'ignore." Religion, politics and 'patient activism' in the Salpêtrière (1880-1905) – Marie van Haaster

16:30–18:00
Keynote by Elaine Leong (UCL)

19:00
Floating lecture – Andreas Jüttemann: Berlin Medical History Boat Tour (optional)

9:00–10:30
Session 7

Spurious Sentinels (Room 1.101)

Chair: Julia Cummiskey

1. E is for the Environment – How Escherichia coli became a sentinel for environmental health – Claas Kirchhelle
2. 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 (Room 1.402)

Chair: Sarah Marks

1. Disability in Psychiatric Discourse: The Case of the Moslavina-Popovača Psychiatric Hospital (1930s-1950s) – Jelena Seferović
2. How to diagnose a hysteric: doctors, patients and families negotiating at the Eginitio Hospital, Athens, Greece, c.1900-1950 – Despo Kritsotaki
3. Imperial Plans, National Aspirations: Debates on Establishing Hungary’s First Mental Asylum – Janka Kovács

Risk and Statistics in State Socialist Healthcare (Room 1.403)

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 (Room 1.404)

Chair: Yuliya Hilevych

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 (Room 1.405) 

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 (Room 1.502)

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

11:00–12:30
Session 8

After the Single Use II (Room 1.101)

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 (Room 1.402)

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 (Room 1.403)

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. (Room 1.404)

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 (Room 1.405)

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

Situating Sexual Health (Room 1.502)

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 (Room 1.504)

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

12:30–13:30
General Assembly of the EAHMH

13:30–15:00
Session 9

Strategies of Reproductive Health in the Postwar Era (Room 1.101)

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. Genetic Counseling in Socialist Countries in the Interplay of Scientific Progress and Disability Politics – Victoria Shmidt and Barna Szamosi
3. 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 (Room 1.402)

Chair: Jean-Paul Gaudilliere

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 (Room 1.403)

Chair: Sebastian Fonseca

1. Figuring Hygiene: The Institute Dalcroze, the Deutsche Werksätten, and the Rhythm of the Series in Early Twentieth-Century Dresden – Brianne Wesolowski
2. From Normandy to Caspian: Medical Retreats, Birth of Tourism, and Urban Planning in Iran (1920s-1940s) – Kamyar Salavati

Psychiatric Practices and Migration in the Second Half of the 20^th Century (Room 1.404)

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 (Room 1.405)

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

Disease Ecologies (Room 1.502)

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

15:30–17:00
Session 10

Child Patients in 20th Century Sanatoria* (Room 1.101)

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 (Room 1.402)

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
4. Alcoholism and the colonial encounter in Portuguese occupied Africa – João Tavares

Epidemic Governance (Room 1.403)

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 (Room 1.404)

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 (Room 1.405)

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 (Room 1.502)

Chair: Sophie Ahlmeyer

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