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The year 2018 marked the centennial of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, one of the deadliest outbreaks of disease in recorded history. To acknowledge the social impact of illness on humanity, and to highlight how historical research can shape our knowledge of medicine and the health sciences at a time when those fields of study are expanding here at Seton Hall, the History Department is hosting a two-day symposium on disease and wellness in historical perspective. Some of the questions we seek to investigate over the course of this symposium are as follows: How have notions of illness and wellness changed over time? In what ways have medical progress and discovery been shaped by wars and natural disasters? How did regimes of hygiene fashion social hierarchies or imperial policy? What have been the social, political, and economic consequences of the diseased body and/or mind in various societies? How do civilizations conceptualize disease and miracles within faith practices? How do public health and issues of social justice intersect?
Publication Date
2-7-2019
Publisher
Seton Hall University
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | History
Recommended Citation
Seton Hall University, Department of History, "Afflicted Bodies, Affected Societies: Disease and Wellness in Historical Perspective" (2019). Symposium in Comparative History. 5.
https://scholarship.shu.edu/history-symposium/5
