TÜBİTAK - AB COST Projesi , 2023 - 2027
The current state of the art in the history of healthcare suggests an
ongoing divide in terms of themes, approaches, methods and even sources
between historians working in different parts of Europe. This reflects
separate research cultures and networks shaped by long term approaches
to the history of medicine including, the role of medic-historians, the
social sciences, social and cultural history and even politics. This
Action will address this challenge through scientific exchange around
four research themes – Healthcare Provision, Healthcare Providers,
Patients, and Finance – that will feed into the capacity building
objectives. These thematic working groups will integrate and finesse
diverse methods and approaches and extend knowledge and understanding of
experience and sources currently in use across Europe. Through training
events, skills exchange and publications the project will create
critical mass in the history of European healthcare, providing support
and an academic environment for scholars at all stages of their career.
It will facilitate the establishment of a platform for their work that
seeks to temper the dominance of Anglophone publication and presentation
opportunities; create core groups across the continent to exchange
ideas and produce collective outputs; enhance opportunities for research
students and early career researchers to experience diverse academic
cultures and approaches; and institute collegiate mentoring structures
that will reduce hierarchies dominated by seniority and promote fair and
equal opportunities irrespective of race, gender, age or class. The
core methodological approach we will use will be comparative history.