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Conceptions of health changed fundamentally during the 20th century in Europe. Around 1900 the battle against epidemics on the basis of moralising state efforts still dominated the discourse on health. Since the First World War, however, individualising approaches to health prevention in connection with the new focus on chronic diseases (for example coronary diseases) came to the fore. In the second part of the century health finally became an issue in everyday culture, embedded in consume orientated life styles and dietary habits. Various factors contributed to the transformation of health policies and health cultures. A pronounced impact had, for example, the medical research conjectures with their changing causality and risk models, the alteration of institutions relevant to health politics between initiatives of the civil society (e.g. the Lebensreform movement or patients’ associations) and the evolvement of welfare state institutions. In addition, expanding consumer society transformed the cultural meaning of health-related dietary and behaviour habits.
The conference has two aims. Firstly, it is intended to trace in broad strokes the Western European discourses on health from a perspective of cultural history and historical anthropology. Thereby, the developments of the 20th century shall be set against the background of the 19th century. Secondly, the European variations of health conceptions in Western and Eastern, Northern and Southern European states shall be considered on the basis of approaches in comparative and transnational history. Also, the range and the results of the Europeanization of health politics since the 1950s shall be part of the conference theme.
The conference will take place on the 24th and 25th of July at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, Reichpietschufer 50. If you are interested in attending the conference please contact Christian Sammer per e-mail (praevention@wzb.eu) by 14 July 2008.
PROGRAMME
Venue: WZB, room A300
Thursday 24th July 2008
12.00 h Buffet
13.00 h
Introduction: Martin Lengwiler (University of Zurich/Basel) and Jeannette Madarász (WZB)
Keynotes 1
13.30 h
Jakob Tanner (University of Zurich):
Lebensmittel und Technologien des Selbst: Die Inkorporation von Nahrung als präventive Diät und Gesundheitsmanagement
(Food and technologies of the self: the incorporation of nutrition as a preventive diet and health management)
Discussion
14.20 h
Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles):
Risk and Responsibility: Health Becomes Statistical
15.00 h
Commentary (N.N.) and discussion
Papers 1
16.00 h
Winfried Süß (LMU München):
Drei Wege aus dem Staat von Weimar. Deutsche Gesundheitspolitik im 20. Jahrhundert
(Three ways emerging from the Weimar State. German health policy in the 20th century)
16.30 h
Silvia Berger Ziauddin (Universität Zürich):
„Die Jagd auf Mikrobien hat erheblich an Reiz verloren.“ Das Ende der bakteriologischen Deutungsmacht in Medizin und Gesundheitspolitik in der Weimarer Republik
(„The chase after microbes has lost its appeal.” The end of the bacteriological paradigm in medicine and health policy in the Weimar Republic)
17.00 h
Commentary (Jessica Reinisch, Birkbeck College London) and discussion
Friday 25th July 2008
Keynotes 2
9.00 h
Robert Aronowitz (University of Pennsylvania):
The converging experience of risk and chronic disease
Discussion
9.50 h
Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine):
Systematic gradualism or coercive permissiveness? Dilemmas for public health in the second half of the twentieth century
10.30 h
Commentary (Martin Dinges, Robert Bosch Stiftung Stuttgart, Universität Mannheim) and discussion
Papers 2
11.30 h
Patrick Kury (University of Bern): Von der „Managerkrankheit“ zum Streßmanagement.
Überlegungen zur Demokratisierung medizinisch-psychologischer Risikofaktoren nach 1945
(From the “manager’s disease” to stress management. Thoughts on the democratisation of medical-psychological risk factors after 1945)
12.00 h
Jeannette Madarász (WZB):
Demokratisierung, Konsum und Populärwissenschaft – Chronische Erkrankungen des Herz-Kreislauf-Systems in den Medien
(Democratisation, consumerism and popular science – chronic cardiovascular diseases in the media)
12.30 h
Commentary (Dieter Gosewinkel, WZB) and discussion
13.00 h Lunch
Papers 3
14.00 h
Ulrike Lindner (University of the German Federal Armed Forces):
Präventionskonzepte im Umbruch: Schwangerenvorsorge in Großbritannien und Westdeutschland nach 1945
(Concepts of prevention in change: prenatal care in the United Kingdom and Western Germany after 1945)
14.30 h
Gabriele Moser (University of Heidelberg):
Schadenverhütung und Wirtschaftlichkeit. Präventionsdiskurse in beiden deutschen Staaten der 1950er Jahre
(Risk management and cost effectiveness. Discourses on prevention in the two German states of the 1950’s)
14.30 h
Commentary (Thomas Mergel, Humboldt-University of Berlin)) and discussion
Papers 4
16.00 h
Martin Döring/ Regine Kollek (University of Hamburg):
Transformationen des Cardio Metabolic Risk: Eine wissenschafts- und begriffsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zur Konzeptualisierung des metabolischen Syndroms
(Changing patterns of Cardio Metabolic Risk: The conceptual history of the Metabolic Syndrome)
16.30 h
Jörg Niewöhner / Stefan Beck:
Sieben Millionen Jahre Fett - Zur Entwicklung von Übergewichtsätiologien und Interventionen in Biologie und Medizin seit 1960
(Seven million years of fat – on the development of the etiology of obesity and interference in biology and medicine since 1960)
17.00 h
Commentary (Brigitta Bernet, University of Zurich) and discussion
17.30 h
Conclusion: Dieter Gosewinkel (WZB) and Martin Lengwiler (University of Zurich/Basel)
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