The Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London on behalf of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health presents:

“Environment, Health and History” to be held in central London, at the Brunei Gallery SOAS in September 2007

Plenary speakers include:
> Professor Chris Hamlin, Notre Dame University, Indiana.
> Professor Dieter Schott, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.
> Professor Chris Sellers, State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Increasingly historians of medicine and of science have begun to seek common ground with geographers and with environmental historians studying the material, cultural and social relations embedded in place. A lively dialogue between different methodologies and approaches is under way.

This conference will cover a range of topics across all time periods and disciplines with national, cross national and international dimensions. It is hoped through such exchange to discuss and develop ways of approaching the interface between environment and health in ways which are sensitive to the past but also speak to present day concerns.

Among the themes of the conference are:

Health and the urban environment; health and the rural environment; environment and occupational health; environment, climate and health; environmentalism; environment and the ancients – airs waters and places; environment, gender and health; sanitation; immunisation; the colonial environment and health; mental health and war; and more…..