March 10: Laurence Monnais at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar: Laurence Monnais (University of Lausanne) will present:
A SOCIAL(IST) DISEASE? CONTROLLING MEASLES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND BEYOND 1963-2025
March 10, 14:00-16:00 CET
Room 5061, Friedrichstraße 191-193
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Both the United States and Cambodia have recently lost their measles elimination certificate. Monnais does not intend to explain this “failure” at times when measles is re-emerging everywhere, but rather tries to understand how a small Southeast Asian kingdom, ravaged by the Indochinese wars, a genocidal Maoist regime (1975-1979) followed by a decade of occupation by Vietnam, has been able to get rid of an ultra-contagious virus in the 2010s. With this question as a starting point, Monais will look back at the history of control policies of a “social” disease (linked to malnutrition, poverty, and mobility) that has been vaccine-preventable since 1963. Her talk will focus on the role played by the movement of Southeast Asian refugees on US measles elimination planning, the influence of community health initiatives and of the global health paradigm on mainland Southeast Asia’s fight against infectious diseases by mass immunization.
LAURENCE MONNAIS, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is a professor of the history of medicine and public health at the Institute in humanities in medicine (IHM), Vaud University Hospital (CHUV) and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. A specialist of Southeast Asia, she has worked on the history of colonial medicine, the anthropology of pharmaceuticals, health practices of Southeast Asian migrants in Canada (where she has been based for over 25 years) and, more recently, on a global history of measles and vaccine hesitancy. She is the director of the publishing house Editions BHMS, the editor-in-chief of an online medical humanities journal Soin, Sens, Santé, and the co-founder and president of HOMSEA, an association promoting the history of medicine in Southeast Asia since 2006.
October 24: Lukas Engelmann at Socialist Medicine Seminar
Please join us for our monthly Socialist Medicine Seminar: Lukas Engelmann (University of Edinburgh) will present:
A TALE OF "WELL-STIRRED" SOCIETIES? POPULATION BIOLOGY AND THE STEEP ASCENT OF EPIDEMIC MODELING SINCE THE 1970s.
October 24, 14:00-16:00 CET
Room 5028, Friedrichstraße 191-193
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Both the United States and Cambodia have recently lost their measles elimination certificate. Monnais does not intend to explain this “failure” at times when measles is re-emerging everywhere, but rather tries to understand how a small Southeast Asian kingdom, ravaged by the Indochinese wars, a genocidal Maoist regime (1975-1979) followed by a decade of occupation by Vietnam, has been able to get rid of an ultra-contagious virus in the 2010s. With this question as a starting point, Monais will look back at the history of control policies of a “social” disease (linked to malnutrition, poverty, and mobility) that has been vaccine-preventable since 1963. Her talk will focus on the role played by the movement of Southeast Asian refugees on US measles elimination planning, the influence of community health initiatives and of the global health paradigm on mainland Southeast Asia’s fight against infectious diseases by mass immunization.
LAURENCE MONNAIS, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is a professor of the history of medicine and public health at the Institute in humanities in medicine (IHM), Vaud University Hospital (CHUV) and Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. A specialist of Southeast Asia, she has worked on the history of colonial medicine, the anthropology of pharmaceuticals, health practices of Southeast Asian migrants in Canada (where she has been based for over 25 years) and, more recently, on a global history of measles and vaccine hesitancy. She is the director of the publishing house Editions BHMS, the editor-in-chief of an online medical humanities journal Soin, Sens, Santé, and the co-founder and president of HOMSEA, an association promoting the history of medicine in Southeast Asia since 2006.
