STHC-L: The Science, Technology and Health Care Archives Forum

fwd: CFP: Landscapes of Health

• Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:41:03 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: fwd: CFP: Landscapes of Health
• Message-ID: SIMEON.9808110903.A@bio-s-his003.library.ucla.edu

Forwarded to STHC-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH.  May be of interest, 
especially to those presenting or attending session #58 chaired by 
Waverly Lowell at the upcoming Society of American Archivists's 
meeting, "Science, Community, and Architecture: Documentation 
Strategies in Practice"



Russell


--- Begin Forwarded Message ---
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:47:45 -0400
From: "Harry M. Marks" 
Subject: CFP: Landscapes of Health (x-post H-Urban)
Sender: "H-NET List on the History of Science, Medicine, and 
Technology" 

Posted by Roberta m. moudry 

The following is a session at the 1999 Society of Architectural
Historians' Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 1999 in Houston, Texas.  The
complete call for papers is published in the April 1998 issue of the
SAH Newsletter. Please send abstracts of 300 words or less, with
contact information and one-page cv by Sept. 4, 1998.


Call for Papers:  Session -- Landscapes of Health

The physical health of individuals and population groups has long
been an identifiable factor in the shaping of the built landscape.
Building types -- hospitals, sanitoria, spa compounds -- have
evolved from specialized practices related to the care and healing of
the body. Reformers, corporate and political powers have also linked
health and architecture, conflating physical, social and moral health
considerations in their efforts to reconfigure urban housing and
civic space. Because body and environment have been so closely
linked, architecture has been embraced repeatedly as a tool for the
management of health and the inculcation of cultural values.

Papers are sought that probe the relationship between the physical
body and the construction, destruction or redesign, use and cultural
meaning of the built environment.  Proposals might focus on a
particular building type; examine the cultural construction of public
health and its impact on architecture and planning; consider the
conflation of bodily health and morality, or the ways in which health
and bodily perception inform characterizations of gender, ethnicity
and race linked to built form; or address recent theoretical
investigations of the body in relation to the meaning and evolving
design of domestic or urban environments.  Case studies might include
such large-scale health facility plans as K. I. Dientzenhofer's
Invalidovna Hospital for Disabled Soldiers, Prague, or the Texas
Medical Center, Houston; the political constructions of health and
space that shaped Jewish ghettos in European cities; the
architectural impact of disease and catastrophic epidemics; and
public housing and urban renewal efforts in recent decades.

This thematic session is not restricted by chronology or geography.
Investigations that are transdisciplinary  in subject matter or
methodology are welcomed.  Send proposals to Roberta M. Moudry,
Department of Architecture, Cornell University, 140 Sibley Hall,
Ithaca, NY  14853; tel: 607-255-3917; fax: 607-255-0291; email:
rmm5@cornell.edu.

Roberta M. Moudry
Cornell University
--- End Forwarded Message ---

___________________________________________________
Russell A. Johnson        rjohnson@library.ucla.edu

Archivist              (310) 825-3191  or  206-2753
Neuroscience History Archives
Brain Research Institute, UCLA
Box 951761     Los Angeles CA  90095-1761

Special Collections Cataloger        (310) 825-6940
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, UCLA
Box 951798     Los Angeles CA  90095-1798