Processes and Mechanisms of Medicalisation: Between Reproductive Health and Dental Hygiene

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description This project investigates the processes and mechanisms through which ancient medicine extended its authority to areas of everyday life previously addressed through domestic remedies, ritual practices, and family-based empirical knowledge. It examines how medicine not only offered theoretical explanations and therapeutic responses, but also reshaped the perception and definition of socially significant problems. Combining the history of ancient medicine with social and economic history and historical demography, the study focuses on two complementary fields: fertility and reproductive health, and dental care and oral hygiene. The first explores medical efforts to preserve reproductive capacity and their demographic, political, and economic implications. The second analyses the medicalisation of oral care and its connections with diet, hygiene, access to water, material living conditions, and general health. Where to apply Website http://www.unibo.it . Requirements. Additional Information . Eligibility criteria. to apply for research grants fill out the form available at the following address: https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/incarichi-di-ricerca. Eligible destination country/ies for fellows: . Italy. Eligibility of fellows: country/ies of residence: . All. Eligibility of fellows: nationality/ies: . All. Website for additional job details https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/incarichi-di-rice