Published this year in the student history magazine Skript: Sterre Raat explores regulations of waste disposal in premodern Amsterdam, using healthscaping methodologies promoted by Guy Geltner, Janna Coomans, and others.
https://platform.openjournals.nl/skript/article/view/23499

#healthscaping #publichealth #histmed

Stay tuned! We are finalising the Conference Programme for "Preventative Care in the Preindustrial World: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Perspectives", with a focus on the Indo-Islamic world. To be held 12-14 June, save the dates.

#histmed #healthscaping #mughal #publichealth #conference

On the ironies of modern sanitation transitions: Beattie & Boileau discuss Cantonese market gardening, nightsoil waste, and tensions of health & hygiene in 19th century colonial Australasia. Worth a read.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/883380

#ChineseOverseas #healthhumanities #healthscaping

CfP! The Australian Early Medieval Association conference is 26-28 Sept @ACUmedia Canberra, w/ the theme "Exploring the Semiotics of Colour": uses of colour(s) in medieval life - including in medicine, health, disease + healing.

#healthscaping #conference #medieval

We are delighted to have Elizabeth Stephens as our keynote speaker, of the Australasian Health and Medical Humanities network.

Presenters include Guy Geltner, Megan Cassidy-Welch, Aydogan Kars, Farhat Hasan, +. Please share w/ interested folks.🧵🛑

#publichealth #healthscaping

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#healthscaping has come a long way. This year Janna Coomans,
Léa Hermenault, Clair Weeda,
and Rogier van Kooten published an article covering the unequal effects of plague in 16th cent #Antwerp through a spatial-environmental lens.

https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkad090/7629070?login=false#443918058

#spatialhistory #GPHW24 #publichealth

Full program of Global Public Health Week #GPHW24 out, starting today under the theme "𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐬" #paradigms #publichealth, which we will tackle all week by highlighting our #Premodern #Healthscaping research projects. 1/

https://www.wfpha.org/global-public-health-week/

2/🧵Jessica O’Leary presented findings on #Indigenous public health practices in #colonial #Brazil. She applied a “#healthscaping” lens to her sources, a methodology outlined by Geltner + Coomans:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01615440.2022.2128487

#histmed #methodology #publichealh #healthhumanities