Project description
Rewriting medical history through a different perspective
The history of medicine and its effects on our lives has mostly been told through the eyes of the capitalist West. However, this often omits how healthcare is viewed in socialist nations – regions affected by vastly different socio-political developments – and how it shapes health cultures specific to those nations. The EU-funded SOCMED project seeks to rewrite global health history by incorporating networks, knowledges and technologies from socialist countries and the way they influenced international health and medicine in the 20th century. The goal is to enhance our understanding of historical developments in medicine while revealing the true foundations modern global healthcare is built on.
Objective
Socialist Medicine: An Alternative Global Health History
The project pioneers a new history of global health that, for the first time, incorporates the socialist world - a constellation of countries in a fluctuating political, economic and military nexus distinct from the capitalist West. It identifies the particular health cultures produced by socialism (in all its variety) and explores the impact of socialist internationalism in co-producing global health in the 20th century. The proposed project pioneers a new history that will not only transform our knowledge of historical processes, but will further our understanding of ideas, practices and processes that current global health structures have been built on.
Global health histories are framed mainly through American, colonial and liberal perspectives, even as some contributions of the socialist world, e.g. in smallpox eradication, have been acknowledged. The omission of socialist contexts, however, distorts our understanding of what global health is. Many parts of the socialist world, like China or Czechoslovakia, provided different approaches to international and global health, e.g. in rural health or epidemic management. Although there was not one socialist template, diverse framings of socialist medicine played major roles in shaping and contesting global practices.
A systematic analysis of socialist medicine and international health through global case studies integrates missing expert networks, political agendas, public health models and diplomatic agreements in global health history. This work, in turn, allows us to rethink concepts such as socialism, medical aid, solidarity, development, socialist medical research and health provision.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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10117 Berlin
Germany
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