EAHMH 2025 Berlin Health Beyond Medicine

 EAHMH 2025 Berlin: Health Beyond Medicine

 

August 26-29, 2025, Humboldt University

 

In the past years, conceptions of health have been challenged on multiple levels. Medical interventions appear as one among a variety of factors that contribute to priority setting in health and wellbeing, from vaccination to laboratory capacities, and from the small scale of individual experiences to global policies. Within history of medicine, we see an increasing interest in histories on health policies and practices cutting across international, national and local registers, connecting various, hitherto marginalized actors, processes and experiences. Such studies expand our understanding of approaches to health, and raise the awareness for global and local dynamics that contribute to their change.

 

In this context, various analytical pathways in history, philosophy, and social studies of medicine can establish productive approaches to the emergence, circulation and transformation of priorities in health and wellbeing through time and space. The EAHMH 2025 conference Health Beyond Medicine thus aims to bring into conversation methods in and beyond history and fields in and beyond medicine that are often siloed in academic contexts, in healing practices, and in policy making, focusing on topics such as public health, biomedical sciences and patient and health activism.

 

For its biannual meeting, the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health invites submissions on any topic in the history of medicine and health broadly conceived, and welcome a range of disciplinary approaches, time periods and geographical contexts. We especially encourage proposals that address aspects of the conference theme, and proposals from early career scholars, who will have an opportunity to take part in a dedicated skills workshop. 

Confirmed keynote speakers include Projit Mukharji (Ashoka University) and Birgit Nemec (Charité). 

 

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Cosmologies of medicine and health

• Patient activism and health politics

• Environmental and animal histories of health

• Conflict and health

• Transnational networks and health diplomacy

• Health priorities in local, national and international contexts

• Negotiations of disease categories in scientific and policy platforms

• Biomedical validation and regulation

• Health sciences, population health, One Health, and public health

• Disability and chronic states

• Social medicine

• Medical research beyond institutions

• Crossroads between disciplines: medical humanities, history of science and technology, ethnography and STS in the history of medicine

Proposals should not exceed 300 words. The deadline for submitting applications to the conference is March 10, 2025. Please submit your abstract for individual papers or panels here (https://hi.converia.de/frontend/index.php?sub=125).