We are interested in any and all theories, policies and practices of preventative healthcare at the population level among pre- and non-industrial societies across the world.
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Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Premodern Public Health: Lecture Now Online in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 day, 17 hours agoA video recording of Guy Geltner’s lecture in Monash University “Premodern Public Health: The End of an Oxymoron” is available online: https://arts.monash.edu/news/premodern-public-health-lecture
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Peyman Amiri edited the post Public Lecture – “Premodern Public Health: The End of an Oxymoron?” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days agoWednesday 18 April, 2018 at Monash University, Australia.
For more information, please contact Jocelyne Mohamudally (Email: jocelyne.mohamudally@monash.edu), or visit: https://arts.monash.edu/about/sophis.
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Peyman Amiri edited the post History Research Seminar: “In the Camp and on the March: How Armies Shaped Public Health History in the Premodern World” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 2 months ago“In the Camp and on the March: How Armies Shaped Public Health History in the Premodern World”
Guy Geltner (UvA)
8 March 2018, 15:00–17:00 – VOC-zaal, Bushuis
Public health is widely viewed as a modern pursuit, enabled especially by the emergence of democratic nation states, centralized bureaucracies and advanced medicine. While soc…[Read more]
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Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Postdoctoral Position: ‘Townscape and Healthscape: Mapping the Sanitary City in Italy’ in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months agoProject and job description
HealthScaping seeks to trace the development and impact of preventative healthcare policies, medical discourses and social and religious action in the continent’s two most urbanized a […] -
Peyman Amiri edited the post PhD Position: Prophylactic Healthcare and the Urban Public in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoProject description
HealthScaping traces the development and impact of preventative healthcare policies, medical discourses and social and religious practices in the continent’s two most urbanized regions in the later Middle Ages, Italy and the Low Countries. The project taps numerous written, material and visual sources and archaeological data f…[Read more] -
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G. Geltner uploaded the file: Black Death and Public Health teaching module for undergraduates to
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 4 months agoThe present module introduces advanced undergraduates to the events known as the Black Death (1347-1352) and situates them in the broader culture of medieval public health or premodern prophylactics. It is divided into two teaching units of equal length and interchangeable order: premodern public health theory, policy and practice can operate as…[Read more]
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G. Geltner uploaded the file: Bibliography of premodern public health (eds. Coomans and Geltner; updated 10 September 2017) to
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 4 months agoThis is a list of secondary sources with direct bearing on the history of public health before c. 1750. It is predominantly European and Mediterranean, although we are gradually expanding the geographical coverage of studies concerning population-level, preventative interventions in pre-modernity. Wherever possible, we added links to works that…[Read more]
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Peyman Amiri wrote a new post Upcoming Conference – Representing Infirmity: Diseased Bodies in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy, Monash University, 13-15 December 2017 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 months agoThis conference represents the first analysis of how diseased bodies were represented in Italy during the ‘long Renaissance’, from the early 1400s through ca. 1650. Many individual studies by historians of art and […]
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G. Geltner wrote a new post Reminder: CfP in panels on Premodern Public Health in 2018 ESUH conference in Rome in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoDeadline is fast approachng: 5 October 2017
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G. Geltner wrote a new post Two postdoctoral positions in HealthScaping, University of Amsterdam in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week agoPostDoc in Low Countries urban history (later Middle Ages)
Postdoc in European medical-cultural history (later Middle Ages)
Application deadline 24 September 2017; jobs begin 1 February 2018
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G. Geltner wrote a new post CfP to a session/s on “Premodern Public Health: Comparing Cities, 1250-1750” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 11 months agoWe are delighted that a session we proposed for the European Association for Urban History Conference (Rome 29/8-1/9/2018) has been accepted. You can apply to submit papers for this session until 5/10/2017 (note […]
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G. Geltner wrote a new post Pre-modern Public Health @ The Medici Archives in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year agoAnother group of projects, directed by John Henderson, and exploring preventative practices in medieval and early modern Tuscany: […]
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G. Geltner wrote a new post PhD positions in urban archaeology of health at NTNU University Museums in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoNTNU University Museums announces two PhD positions in urban archaeology/historical archaeology and iron age/Viking age archaeology specializing in archaeological human genetics (please follow the links […]
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G. Geltner posted an update in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoNTNU University Museums announces two PhD positions in urban archaeology/historical archaeology and iron age/Viking age archaeology specializing in archaeological human genetics (please follow the links below).
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G. Geltner posted an update in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoMedHeal600: Medieval urban public health project launched by Axel Christophersen in Norway:
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