EH.N: CFP: CONFERENCE: HEALTH AND CITIES IN SPAIN, 1880-1940, July 8-9, 2010, Barcelona

[Alexander Field]

Note:  I am posting this on behalf of Francesc Munoz -AF
 
CONFERENCE: HEALTH AND CITIES IN SPAIN, 1880-1940
.

Environmental conditions, standard of living, and sanitary
interventions 

 
Date: 8-9, July 2010
Place: Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra-Barcelona
 
Objective: In this conference we wish to gather researchers who can
bring new evidence and approaches to the study of the first wave of
urban modernization in Spainbefore the Spanish Civil War, related to the
changes observed in the biological standard of living. We will focus our
attention on the period from the second half of the 19th century to the
Second World War. In a future meeting we will deal with changes in the
second half of the 20th century.
 
Basic structure: the meeting will start with a session on the main
contributions developed at a European level, and then continue with
presentations of papers by guest speakers
 
Subjects:
 
1. Food and nutrition, air and water quality; based on data found in
hospitals, schools, or other institutions.  
 
2. The nutritional state of the urban people; mortality, anthropometric
and biometric indicators using medical records and/or data from military
institutions, schools, hospitals and maternity hospitals.
 
3. Wages and prices, poverty conditions, spatial segregation, and
inequalities in income and/or access to public health, water or the
different kinds and quality of foodstuffs.
 
4. The conditions of morbidity and mortality in the cities, the
development of new health policies and their impact in feeding, public
hygiene and child development.
 
Participants:
 
1. The deadline for paper proposals is July 31st 2009. In September
authors will be informed whether their proposals have been accepted.
These proposals should come with a brief summary (no more than one page)
showing the originality of the sources or the approach suggested, and
should focus on the study of specific towns and/or cities, whatever size
and economic basis they may have, or on a comparative study of different
cases.
 
2. Accepted papers should not exceed 5,000 words and will need to be
submitted before May 30th, 2010. 
 
3. Submit proposals and papers to: 
 
francesc.munoz at uab.es            pedro.fatjó@uab.es
 
 
Coordination responsables:
Francisco Muñoz (UAB) and Josep Pujol-Andreu (UAB)
 
Scientific Committee
 J. Bernabeu (UA), J.M. Martínez Carrión (UM), Francisco Muñoz Pradas
(UAB) Roser Nicolau (UAB), Enrique Perdiguero (UMH) Josep Pujol-Andreu
(UAB), Gloria Sanz (UPNA), Carmen Sarasúa (UAB), David Sauri (UAB), J.
Simpson (UCIII).
 
Research groups which will take part in the organisation:
- Research Group in History of the Population, health and foodstuff
(UAB); Project SEJ2007-2010: “Standard of living, health and food”.
- Balmis Group of Research in Community Health and History of Science
(UA). Project HAR2009-13504-C02-00: “The historical and sanitary
determinants of the Spanish nutritious transition (1874-1975)”.
- Research Group in Standard of Biological Life (UM). Project
SEJ2007-67613: “Growth, nutrition and well being in Spain: the influence
of the long-term socioeconomic processes in the biological levels of
life and health”.
- Consolidated Group of Research in Advanced Studies in History of
Health and Medicine (UMH). Project HAR2009-13504-C02-01.
-SEJ2006-08188/ECON (UCIII): “Economic Causes of the Spanish Civil
war”.
- Research Group on Reconstruction of the Female Labor Force
Participation Rate  
 
First contact:
Francesc Muñoz: francesc.munoz at uab.es
 
Organisation secretary office:
Pedro Fatjó (UAB): pedro.fatjo at uab.es
 
Assistance of the secretary office:
Susana Martínez (UAB) : Susana.martinez at uab.es
Ismael Hernández (UAB): Ismael.hernandez at uab.es