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The commercial determinants of health (CDoH) is an emergent field, critically examining how corporate actors and their products have shaped health and policy. Whilst studies of CDoH have deep, contemporary salience, their historical antecedents have rarely been the focus of extensive scholarly inquiry. This is surprising, given that history is replete with examples of corporate actors placing profit and/or corporate interest over individual and collective health.

This one-day in-person workshop, hosted at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, will engage with the rich history of CDoH. Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, and at all career stages, it will engage with case studies from across a variety of industries, in countries and contexts across the world. In doing so, we wish to draw together contributions which probe both the empirical and methodological contributions of historical research (broadly defined) to the study of CDoH, bringing these findings into dialogue with current health problems.

More Information

Please find more details here: Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health: Call for Papers.

Sophie Mann, CHM, and Martha McGill have arranged a two-day international workshop focusing on spirituality, corporeality and health in the early modern period.

When: Thursday, 12 Sept, 2pm to Friday, 13 Sept, 3pm (GMT)

Where: Teaching Grid, Warwick University Library

Programme

On the 7 – 8 September 2023, Dr Kelly-Ann Couzens and Professor Hilary Marland and hosted a two-day workshop at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick, entitled ‘Women on the Edge: Motherhood & the Family in Turmoil in the Twentieth Century’. The event was generously funded by the Wellcome Trust as part of the Last Taboo of Motherhood? Postnatal Mental Disorders in the Twentieth Century: (2021& 2024) project.

The objective of the workshop was to bring together scholars working in history, criminology and law, whose research explores the relationship between motherhood, mental or emotional states, and criminality within the family, in the long twentieth century. More specifically, we were keen to focus on the role psychiatric, legal, “expert”, and popular thinking has had in understanding “deviant” female behaviour in the past. We were also interested in reflecting upon sources and critical approaches for recovering these complex histories as well as discussing the challenges researchers have encountered in tackling these themes on both a personal and methodological level.

Read a summary of the workshop here.