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A transnational history of health control and hygiene onboard of liners (1894-1946)

Descripción del proyecto

Rememorar la historia de la salud en el mar para comprender las pandemias contemporáneas

La pandemia de COVID-19 puso a prueba la globalización. Los confinamientos y otras medidas impuestas para contener la propagación del virus frenaron la libre circulación de personas y mercancías. En el marco de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, el proyecto SHIPPAN (SHIPping PANdemics) estudiará estas cuestiones mirando hacia el pasado, hasta la Edad Moderna tardía: desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIX en adelante. Esta fue una época en la que los imperios coloniales estaban en su apogeo con situaciones bien establecidas de dominio en las rutas comerciales. La navegación a vapor redujo las distancias y aumentó las posibilidades de contagio. Al mismo tiempo, los avances médicos e higiénicos permitieron, si no curar, al menos identificar y contener mejor las epidemias. En este contexto, SHIPPAN proporcionará una historia social de la salud en el mar.

Objetivo

The Covid-19 pandemic that has shaken the planet since 2020 put mechanisms of globalisation to the test and shows that free movement of people and goods rests on fragile foundations. A better understanding of the societal issues at stake requires a step back to the Late Modern period. From the second half of the 19th century onwards, colonial empires were at their peak, with well-established situations of domination on trade routes. Steam navigation brought people closer together, reducing distances and increasing chances of contagion. Meanwhile, medical and hygienic progress made it possible, if not to cure, at least to better identify and contain epidemics.

This innovative project will provide a social history of health at sea during the first half of the 20th century. A necessary transnational approach to break from the local case studies on a global topic in its essence. The study aims at understanding how empires dealt with pandemics, how sanitary control was managed onboard and wishes to explore how health management was, above all, a personal issue for seafarers and passengers. Such an overlapping of scales allows to study official sanitary regulations as well as concrete hygiene habits, to compare the development of medical station and staff onboard and the implementation of new means of control (health checks and passports, hospital ships, massive vaccinations, etc.). Shipping lines were at the forefront of progress in terms of sanitary risk management.

Global History needs anchors to remain feasible: Hong Kong, Marseille and San Francisco will serve as landmarks. The programme is designed from an excellent knowledge of French and Hong Kong maritime archives, and from the need to explore American material in order to propose a complete and effective approach. The chosen host institution and supervisor are also the driving forces behind this research as they offer an innovative and challenging vision of imperial, social and intersectional history.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

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Coordinador

UNIVERSITE D'ANGERS
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 335 734,08
Dirección
RUE DE RENNES 40
49035 Angers Cedex 01
Francia

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Región
Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire Maine-et-Loire
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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