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October 27, 2025
1st Training School: Approaches to Comparative European Healthcare History Cork, 31 July-2 August, 2024
We were delighted to hold our first Training School at University College Cork, Ireland. Hosted by Dr Seán Lucey, WG4 co-lead, the School’s theme was Approaches to Comparative European Healthcare History. The event attracted 17 in-person trainees along with one online. There were six trainers from Ireland, the UK, Germany, Romania and Poland. Across the two days participants heard presentations on How to do Comparative Approaches to Healthcare History, nineteenth century German hospital finance, contemporary healthcare funding in Ireland and in Poland, Sources for Control and Finance of Hospitals and Healthcare in Wales, and a fascinating and thought provoking session on Ethical Criteria of Resource Allocation in Healthcare.
Read MoreNovember 7, 2025
2nd International Conference on the History of Health: Epidemiology and Health Infrastructure in European History (19th–21st Century)
In early December 2024 a number of our Action members were involved in the excellent 2nd International Conference on the History of Health: Epidemiology and Health Infrastructure in European History (19th–21st Century) organised jointly by the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) in Lisbon, NOVA FCT, FCUL, CHSTM, the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Lab2PT, IN2PAST, the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho, the Museum of Health and Pharmacy in Lisbon and our COST Action – EuroHealthHist.
Read MoreOctober 27, 2025
COST Action EuroHealthHist launched in Ljubljana
We were delighted to launch our new COST Action, National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 (EuroHealthHist) (CA22159), in the beautiful city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The hybrid event took place in the Institute of Contemporary History and we are very grateful to the team there and to Jelena Seferovic...
Read MoreNovember 7, 2025
EuroHealthHist takes over EAHMH25!
This year, six COST panels presented at the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Conference, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (EAHMH 2025), with 32 COST members in attendance. The panels we sponsored at the conference covered Abortion beyond medicine (Agata Ignaciuk), Voicing Trauma: An Intimate History of Emotional Suffering...
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See Events Coming soon
September 25, 2025 - --
holocaust-survivors-as-postwar-patients
Hybrid Workshop by Working Group 3 “Patients” on Holocaust Survivors as Postwar Patients in Europe and Beyond.
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September 16, 2025 - September 17, 2025
patients-history
Keynote and panels on Patients in Spaces and Places, Parents (to be) as Patients, Children as Patients, Managing Patients, Patients as Agents, and Patients and Storytelling.
Time: 3:28 PM - 3:28 PM
Sep -4--5 - --
valuable-and-healing-heritage-collections
Medical and care heritage can contribute to health and wellbeing in a variety of ways.
Time: Sep -4--5 - --
July 9, 2025 - July 10, 2025
1945-change-or-continuity
The workshop theme is “1945: Change or Continuity in European Healthcare?”. All All Filter 1
Time: 3:28 PM - 3:28 PM
June 11, 2025 - June 12, 2025
museum-collections
Transdisciplinary and collaborative research projects and Museum Collections as source material.
Time: 3:28 PM - 3:28 PM
April 4, 2025 - --
first-person-accounts
One Day Hybrid Workshop on First-Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare.
Time: 3:28 PM - --
About the Cost Action
Welcome to the official page for the COST Action CA22159, ‘European Healthcare Histories’. COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding organisation for research and innovation networks. COST Actions help connect researchers across Europe and beyond, enabling them to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers and fostering collaboration.
This page provides a comprehensive overview of our specific Action. Here you will find a detailed description of our network’s focus, our planned meetings and expected outcomes, and the core objectives that guide our research and capacity-building activities. We invite you to explore how our network is working to create a more integrated and impactful understanding of Europe’s diverse healthcare pasts.
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