Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- The concept of crisis in early modern medicine, from Corpus Hippocraticum onwards conceived as a decisive moment in the disease process as well as the diagnostic process
- Crises and their temporal aspects – urgency, acceleration, delay, duration, synchronization, etc.
- Health and medicine in times of war (nurses and physicians during war time, but also people’s lives during these humanitarian crises, civilian and refugee health, etc.) and their afterlives (trauma, memories, scientific innovations)
- Humanitarian emergencies
- Pandemic and epidemic crises (lives lived during these crises, medical knowledge construction, measures taken, healing attempts) – and the afterlives of such crises
- Responses in health provision as “crisis services” (e.g., mental health services after a crisis)
- Economic crises and their wider consequences for health and medicine
- Environmental crises, climate crises, biodiversity crises and their relationship to health and healthcare and/or medical knowledge over time
- Crises in health as psychological, existential and relational events
- Crisis in trust (in research, in health systems, patient-physician relationships)
- Crises and faith
- Communication of crises
- Crisis of (post)modern medicine (overdiagnosis, overtreatment, but also historiographical and critical discussion of the thesis of (bio)medicalization (Illich, Szasz, Foucault, Clarke & co)
- Moral crises: integrity, objectivity and conflicts of interest in professional medicine
- Managing crisis: training, simulation and inter-professional collaboration
- High risk environments and historical planning for disaster
- Crises in (post)colonial medicine
- Shortages and waiting lists in healthcare over time
- Vulnerable populations and their (re)appearance at moments of crisis
- Rights, resilience and insuring against healthcare disasters
- Sensing disaster: sensory history and medical crises
- Collecting and documenting health crises; issues related to oral history and material culture collecting, including ethical questions
- Crises as a subject/an example in the teaching of medical history or in museum exhibitions
- Crises as an opportunity for community organizing and activism