Our proposal to the CEHIC congress: The Epidemiological Factor

As we post last week, the "Centre d'Historia de la Ciència" will hold a meeting next June and July. Issues and topics are related with historigrapy, History and Cience. POBICS has sent a communication, and we are waiting for acceptance. Here a little part of it:

Title: The epidemiological factor: towards a historic genealogy of the link between medicine and politics in Europe from the 18th to the 21st century.

From the beginning of our civilization, infectious and contagious diseases have forced one to think not only of solutions from an individual and medical-health point of view, but also, and urgently, from a political level that involves a territory and population that must be managed. In this sense, epidemiology constitutes a strategic dimension to analyze the complex relationships established between scientific conduct and the political management of a territory. With this aim, we will provide a short historic genealogy of the links established between medicine and politics in European societies since the 18th century. From this, we should be able to see a movement from the concepts of healthiness/unhealthiness common to the “public hygiene” managed by the 19th century nation-state, towards the imperative of public health operating with the “global health” promoted by our current global institutions.

So, this is the kind of stuff we will explain and unfold. When we receive some news about managers, we will post it. Until then, we will continue researching about epidemics in the XXI century (remember our book is about to be released!), remember you can come to our next seminary, this tuesday at 12:00 in order to talk about visual anthropology (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Social Psychology Department). 

If you are gonna to participate in this meeting, just tell us. We are pleased to know your works and ideas!

See you soon!

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