{"id":919,"date":"2022-03-17T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=919"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T11:30:36","slug":"2022-georgian-group-symposium-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callsforpapers.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"2022 Georgian Group Symposium \u2013 Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2022 Symposium \u2013 Architecture & Health: 1660-1830<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Georgian Group\u2019s symposium, Architecture & Health: 1660-1830, will be held at St Bartholomew\u2019s Hospital, London, on Thursday 3 November 2022. The hospital, shortly to celebrate its 900th Anniversary, was \u2018repaired and beautified\u2019 in the eighteenth century. Gibbs\u2019s Great Hall and adjacent Grand Staircase, with its miracle murals by Hogarth, provided an extraordinary backdrop for the encounter between benefactors and their impoverished beneficiaries. The spaces in which medicine was studied and debated, and healthcare provided, are profoundly revealing of Georgian society. In the aftermath of the Great Plague of 1665, Britain enjoyed a medical revolution: science was hotly debated with ancient views challenged, and new knowledge and practice explored within the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, on the benches of anatomy theatres, in books, and in botanical gardens. New voluntary hospitals relieved poor people, and radical practitioners addressed chronic public health problems. As we recover from the pandemic which highlighted social inequalities in the nation\u2019s health, this symposium will consider what we can learn from<\/em> as well as about<\/em> history. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following between 1660-1830:<\/p>\n\n\n\n