International Network for the History of Hospitals |
INHH Conferences |
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HOSPITALS
AND THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE on: 16 FEBRUARY 2007 @ Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL Recent research into the social history of medicine has turned attention from the familiar providers of medical care (physicians, surgeons, nurses, institutional administrators) to the recipients, the patients themselves. Numerous new studies of patient experiences are currently underway. Responding to a wider trend to write history ‘from below’, scholars initially focused upon the role of the sick individual within the ‘medical marketplace’, in an effort to understand patients’ experiences of health and sickness.
Conference organisation: Further details available from: Dr Louise Gray |
Form
+ Function: The Hospital The conference explored the relationship between form and function in health care institutions as it has developed in theory as well as in medical, physical and social structures in the modern period in different local and national contexts. Follow the link for further details |
| Hospitals and Health: Verona, April 2001 Following the highly successful inaugural conference in Norwich, the Network held its second international conference in Verona, Italy between 19 and 21 April 2001. In 'Hospitals and Health: The Balance Sheet' the Network sought to produce a cost benefit analysis of a millennium of hospital history in Europe and America. Costs and benefits were taken in their broadest sense to include not just money, medicine and health but also various causes and consequences of hospital evolution. Once again the Network consciously adopted an inter-disciplinary approach in order to place the hospital firmly within the context of both the immediate community it served and a much wider world. The conference was divided into four main sections: finance and patronage, urban and rural topography, the patient's experience, and economic and demographic impact. Click here for the conference report by Dr Elaine Phillips |
Other Related Conferences
MedHist Callender of Events The calendar of events provides information about lectures, seminars, conferences and other events relating to the history of medicine. The calendar can either be browsed using the following links or searched using the box below UK
history of nursing research colloquium, Wellcome Unit for
the History of Medicine, London (11 March 2005). Participants are selected
on an invitation-only basis and include the leading researchers in the
field, practitioners, nurse educators, and an interdisciplinary mixture
of postgraduates at various stages of nursing history research. The day
is run as a series of 'masterclass' presentations or workshops with a
number of 'experts' in the fields providing a constructive critique on
each presentation. Major themes will include: self-image and professional
identity; race and gender; the impact of technology; and the importance
of political and economic factors in practitioner/patient relationships. Further details
can be found at:
http://www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk/events/hnrcolloq.htm |
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