4-7 September 1997
Liverpool, Great Britain
INHPH / SSHM Conference

Health in the City

This meeting will explore the history of urban public health from its origins to the present day by addressing a variety of key themes which are reflected in the sessions listed below. It coincides with a major new exhibition at the Merseyside Maritime Museum which looks at the history of public health on the 150th anniversary of the appointment of Dr William Henry Duncan in Liverpool as Britain's first Medical Officer of Health.

Sessions
Sessions include:
1. The urban/rural divide: changing patterns of demography and public health. This session addresses geographic variations in an interdisciplinary perspective.
2. "In the beginning there was dirt and disease...": origins of urban public health. This session focuses on pre-19th century public health initiatives in a variety of locations.
3. Moving people, moving disease. This session aims to discuss such issues as port health, ethnicity, the lodging-house culture.
4. Comprehending the masses: ordering the public for the public health. This session investigates the different languages which have been employed to talk about the population or the crowd or the mass.
5. Centres and peripheries. This session will look at the role of colonial agencies and international health organizations, and non-government organizations in urban health.

There will be a further session following this call for papers, two round tables and a poster competition. One of the round tables will look at: "Reinventing public health -- modern public health agenda".

Offers of contributions by 30 September 1996 (including a 1-page abstract and e-mail address) or enquiries for registration should be sent to:

Sally Sheard
Department of Economic and Social History and Public Health
University of Liverpool
P.O. Box 147
Liverpool L69 3BX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-151-7945593
Fax: +44-151-7945588
Email: hel@liv.ac.uk (Helen Power)