Internationale Konferenz
“Sick, Suffering, Healed?”: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Patients in History

PD Dr. Friederike Kind-Kovács will give a talk on “Healing Lungs and Bodies: Child Patients at Lake Balaton from the First to the Second World War” at the conference ““Sick, Suffering, Healed?”: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Patients in History”.

This international conference is organized by working group 3 “Patients” of the COST-Action “CA22159 - National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 (EuroHealthHist)”. It brings together innovative scholarship on the experiences of patients from the 19th century up to the Covid pandemic. The variety of talks mirror the diversity of patient experiences throughout modern history. Over the course of this 2-day event, we will discuss how both notions and the treatment of patients shifted over time and space, in a broad comparative approach. We furthermore seek to address and discuss in this conference the place of the history of patients within the general history of health and healthcare. Within this framework, this conference offers to engage with the question as to the ways in which the history of patients can add to our knowledge of the history of health and healthcare and how patients have actually altered notions of health and practices of medical care.