Call for Papers: Food and Hospitals: An Historical Perspective

In Brüssel findet vom 26. bis 27.April 2013 eine Tagung mit dem Thema “Food and Hospitals: An Historical Perspective” statt. Nachfolgend der Call for Papers:

Hosted by the University of Birmingham (Brussels campus) and the Free  University of Brussels (VUB)  Sponsored by the Society For Social History of Medicine  Food and drink were crucial to hospital and asylum expenditure from  medieval to modern times, not unusually comprising one half of medical  institutions’ annual budgets. Drink and diet naturally varied with  country, region and locality. The organisers of this conference are  interested in exploring broad geographical perspectives and associated  fads, prejudices and phobias. The acquisition, preparation and use of  foodstuffs were also managed by diverse groups, sometimes lay or clerical,  as well as medical, including doctors, nurses and dieticians. Dietary  needs and preferences of patients also varied with age, gender, race and  religion, while meals were often augmented or restricted in line with  diagnosis and discipline. Views concerning the role of food and drink in  recovery also shifted significantly, both in earlier centuries, and more  recently with the rise of the nutritional sciences.

The Advisory Board of the INHH, as organisers of this conference, wish to  invite proposals for 25-30 minute papers on any aspect and era relating to  the history of food, drink and institutional medicine. Abstracts should be  between 200-300 words in length and will be received until 30 April 2012.

 

A programme, featuring an address by Professor Peter Scholliers (VUB,  Belgium), will be advertised in June 2012.  While contemporary grumblings about hospital food have become the  quintessential hospital complaint, it is undeniable that a clean, warm  bed, rest and the provision of food and drink, rather than medicines and  therapies have always greatly increased hospital patients’ chances of  recovery. Indeed diet has from the time of Galen been a central part of  medical therapy. However, even if central to the day-to-day routine of  hospitals, workhouses and asylums, food and drink continue to be  overlooked in historical accounts of hospitalisation. This conference aims  to foreground the role of food and drink in health care institutions in  the past.  We welcome abstracts on any of the following themes:

 

1.TREATMENT: DIET & MEDICINE  *Theory The role of diet and medical theory The psychology of food and  food choice Food as medicine; medicine as food Food and religion: daily  bread and the sin of gluttony  *Practice Dietary restrictions and punishments Artificial and forced  feeding Alcohol and medical therapies Water, wine and other dietary  liquids Nutrition and malnutrition High diets, low diets and milk diets  Infant feeding and nutrition Meat eaters versus vegetarians Food for  convalescence, weight gain and obesity

 

2.SUPPLY The procurement and purchase of food Waste, resistance and food  smuggling Hospital gardens, farms and work therapy Food production and  local economies Theft of provisions and food crime Food and philanthropy  Rationing, shortages and inequalities

 

3. PREPARATION  In-house preparation and distribution  Food for patients versus food for staff  Wells, vineyards and hospital breweries  Hospital kitchens and their technologies  Spaces of food preparation and consumption  Investigating quality and improving food

 

4. FOOD AND DISEASE  Food-related disorders and diseases  Hospital nutritionists and the science of food  Hospital medicine and food metaphors  Toxins, poisoning and contamination  Allergies, additives and adulteration  Hunger, starvation and famine  For more information, please contact: Dr Jonathan Reinarz,  History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, UK –  j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk<mailto:j.reinarz@bham.ac.uk>

 

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