Project data

Funding Entity: Australian Research Council (ARC)

Call: Application for funding in 2022

Coordinator: Monash University (Australia)

UNISI Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanna Bianchi

Department: Department of Historical Sciences and Cultural Heritage (DSSBC)

Start date: 1 November 2022

End date: 31 October 2026

Description

“Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800” is an international research project, based out of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, on Bunurong and Wurundjeri Country. It gathers historians, (bio)archaeologists and religionists spread throughout Europe, the US, India, and Australia to explore preindustrial population-level health across regions.
“Pursuing Public Health” expands its remit in two ways. Firstly, the project covers preventative practices not only in Europe, but also in India and the Eastern Mediterranean, regions where Hippocratic or Galenic medicine’s long-term presence affords points of comparison and knowledge transmission. Secondly, by focusing on non-urban and mobile groups such as courts, miners and pilgrims, the project balances almost exclusive urban focus in much of the existing scholarship on premodern public health.

 

Project website: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?page_id=1079

 

This project has received funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects grant under GA No: DP220102914