Networks

Procedure for granting Seed money to EAHMH networks

The EAHMH aims to foster research and the international exchange of views on all issues concerning health and medicine in Europe and their connections with the extra-European world. For this purpose, EAHMH attracts members world-wide, from North America to Australasia. Another way of accomplishing this goal is to create and facilitate networks of medical historians who have organized themselves around a particular topic.

Networks already in existence include the International Network for the History of Hospitals and the International Network for the History of Homeopathy. New networks have recently presented themselves, and the Scientific board of the EAHMH is willing to help them get started. Instruments to do this include advertising the projected network on the EAHMH website and giving seed money for an inaugural workshop where new networks can define and organize themselves.

New networks may apply for funding with the EAHMH by submitting a proposal to the Treasurer, Dr Jonathan Simon (zxzsimon@yahoo.com). The following criteria apply:

In order to facilitate true European collaboration, networks need to be made up of EAHMH members living in at least four different European countries, including at least one from Eastern or Southern Europe (to become a member, go to http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/mds/centres/eahmh/join/index.aspx)
Proposed network topics needs to be innovative
Deadlines for application are 1 May in even years and 1 January in odd years
Applications should have a specified budget of expenses for the planned workshop, together with details of the activity
The scheme is competitive and will be reviewed by a panel constituted from the SB
Applicants are expected to report back to the SB after the conference, specifying how the money was spent. Information on the outcome of the workshop may be put on the EAHMH website
We consider requests for financing workshops up to 1500 euros

This funding scheme is open to all EAHMH members.

Existing Networks

International Network for the History of Hospitals

Aims:
The Network exists to promote studies related to the historical evolution of hospitals from their beginnings to the present day by providing an international forum for communication and discussion among scholars interested in the subject. Particular encouragement is given to newcomers to the field. It is hoped that collaborative research among members will be encouraged.

Publications:
The Network has a thriving conference and publication series. Recent publications include:

For more information see the International Network for the History of Hospitals website:
https://inhh1.wordpress.com/

Contact:
Christopher Bonfield
inhh@btinternet.com

International Network for the History of Homeopathy

Aims:
International conferences, workshops, publications

Activities:
The network has organised several international conferences, for example in Budapest in 2003 and in Stuttgart in 2007. A conference on medical pluralism and homoeopathy in India and Germany was held in Stuttgart in June/July 2011. For further details, please see: http://www.igm-bosch.de/content/language1/html/10306.asp

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Martin Dinges
Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Straußweg 17
D-70184 Stuttgart
Tel.:0711 46084 167
Fax:0711 46084 181
martin.dinges@igm-bosch.de

International Network for Studying the History of Health in Ports

Aims:
Port cities in the European past acted as ‘gateways of disease’ in the same way that airports today function as hubs for the transmission of infectious diseases such as the Ebola and the ZIKA viruses. Major port cities in the past are unique laboratories enabling us to better understand the long term global evolution of mortality and health in dynamic environments characterized by high disease loads from a large range of infectious diseases, such as cholera and smallpox, high rates of population turnover and vast economic and industrial change.

The network makes use of individual-level cause-of-death data for the entire population of European port cities for the period 1850-1950. These truly unique datasets enable us to go beyond what was captured in highly-aggregated nationally published statistics which make use of extremely limited 19^th century disease classifications. In this way we can evaluate health changes in-depth, being able to study dis-aggregations, by individual disease, by age, sex, etcetera. We can thus reconstruct the epidemiological ‘fingerprints’ of European port cities and the way these changed in an exceptional period in the history of European health, in which life expectancy nearly doubled, infectious diseases sharply declined, and cancers and cardiovascular diseases increased.

The network brings together scholars in social history, historical demography, medical history and historical epidemiology.

Activities:
The SHiP network has received funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of its Internationalization Program 2017. For further information and contact details, see our website: http://www.ru.nl/historicaldemography/research-projects/ship/.

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Martin Dinges
Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Straußweg 17
D-70184 Stuttgart
Tel.:0711 46084 167
Fax:0711 46084 181
martin.dinges@igm-bosch.de