Doyle B.(Yürütücü), Artvinli F., İlikan Rasimoğlu C. G., Küçükkurt A. C.
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.