Premodern Healthscaping will present recent developments in health history during The Pursuit of Global Urban History conference at\u00a0University of Leicester.<\/p>\n
Chair<\/strong>: Janna Coomans, University of Amsterdam<\/p>\n Organizers<\/strong>: Guy Geltner and Janna Coomans, University of Amsterdam<\/p>\n Panel<\/strong>: Genevi\u00e8ve Dumas, University of Sherbrooke, and Claire Weeda, Leiden University<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taylor Zaneri, University of Amsterdam, and Roos van Oosten, Leiden University<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Guy Geltner, University of Amsterdam<\/p>\n July 12, 9:00-10:45<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This panel will present recent developments in health history that focus on preventative programs in a variety of premodern urban contexts and interrogates their relevance to comparative and global history. Insights achieved by public health historians and medical archaeologists working across western European cities have challenged a common tendency to see public health as a response to the Industrial Revolution, one that was uniquely enabled by modernization. But can pushing against a hegemonic paradigm of Euro-American modernity from the perspective of earlier European experiences provide relevant, non-hegemonic tools for scholars working in different regions and eras, with different sources and intellectual genealogies, but burdened by a similar teleology? Panelists will reflect on their diverse methods of knowledge production and findings as an invitation to discuss emic and non-essentialized approaches to urban health as a fruitful way to pursue global history, on the one hand, and resist the sovereignty of Western periodization on the other.<\/p>\n You can find more information about the conference and the panel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Premodern Healthscaping will present recent developments in health history during The Pursuit of Global Urban History conference at\u00a0University of Leicester. Chair: Janna Coomans, University of Amsterdam Organizers: Guy Geltner and Janna Coomans, University of Amsterdam Panel: Genevi\u00e8ve Dumas, University of … Continue reading