European Healthcare Histories

Histories of Maternity

Hybrid Workshop by Working Group 3 “Patients” on Histories of Maternity: Ideas, Practices and Transfers.

Valuable and Healing: Heritage Collections for and with Healthcare September 4-5. Leiden, The Netherlands

Medical and care heritage can contribute to health and wellbeing in a variety of ways. Inspiring exhibitions or thought-provoking public engagement activities invite contemplation and reflection, while learning and healing can be generated by encounters with hidden histories and marginalized perspectives. Creative approaches include museum visits to hone the observational skills of medical students; touching, […]

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. Report Conference report “Sick, Suffering, Healed?”: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Patient History Organized in Cluj-Napoca, 16.09.2025 − 17.09.2025, Center for Population Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University Patients were the focus of scientific […]

Advanced Summer School in Comparative Healthcare History

This advanced summer school in comparative healthcare history will equip early career researchers with methods, sources and frameworks for understanding healthcare in Europe at a national, international and transnational level.