Monday, March 14, 2011

1st International Congress of Interdisciplinary History of Health

The theme approached during this congress, Health's History, is wide and diverse. The key contributors come from different scientific and professional backgrounds as pharmacy, medicine or psycology, turning this into a interdisciplinary and complete discussion. 

Topics

The preferred topics to be presented during this congress are the following. Atention to the fact that it is possible to present other topics not mentioned here, but it is advisable to contact the secretariat in advance:

- Institutions' history (hospital, labs, pharmacies, etc);
- Cientists and other Professionals' biographies;
- Health Sciences' history
- Health Culture's history
- Social Health's history
- Other related interdisciplinary fields of interest in a historical prespectiva as: health philosophy, health law, health geography, health anthropology, health sociology, and so on.

This congress will take place in the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.