Stay up-to-date with the latest developments from the European Healthcare Histories network and the wider field. This is your central hub for important announcements, including upcoming conference dates, new calls for papers, and details of the latest publications and books on European healthcare history. Check back regularly for news and opportunities from across our community.
EuroHealthHist takes over EAHMH25!
November 7, 2025
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...
Read More2nd International Conference on the History of Health: Epidemiology and Health Infrastructure in European History (19th–21st Century)
November 7, 2025
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 MoreCOST Action EuroHealthHist launched in Ljubljana
October 27, 2025
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 More1st Training School: Approaches to Comparative European Healthcare History Cork, 31 July-2 August, 2024
October 27, 2025
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.
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