The Collections of the Medical University of Vienna,
the RSCSE Working Group in the History of Racial Sciences and Biomedicine in Central and Southeast Europe, Oxford Brookes University
the Austrian Society for Social History of Medicine,
and the Department of Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna
are pleased to announce the symposium
Medicine within and between the Empires (Habsburg and Ottoman)
17th — 20th Centuries
21 – 23 November 2008, Vienna (Josephinum)
The main topics under investigation are:
Gender and Medicine,
Religion and Medicine,
Medicine in the Borderlands
Transfer of Knowledge between and across Empires.
Like its predecessor — the symposium on “Medicine in the Balkans: Evolution of Ideas and Practice to 1945” organised at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London in late January 2008 —, the main objectives of this symposium are to explore the cultural and intellectual foundations of medical practices in the context of diverse national identities and heritages of the regions of Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe, as well as the way imperial settings cut across national developments in the history of medicine.
Conference Venue:
Medical University of Vienna,
Josephinum
Währinger Straße 25
A – 1090 Vienna
Phone: ++43/ 1/ 40160/ 26000
Fax: ++43/ 1/ 40160 9 26000
E – mail: sammlungen@meduniwien.ac.at
We charge no fees, but kindly ask for an online registration: http://www.sozialgeschichte-medizin.org