CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Country: Croatia (HR)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  history of medicine; PTSD; mental health; conceptualization of diseases

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  We are researchers studying history and philosophy of medical sciences. Lately, we have been concerned with the reconstruction and conceptualization of mental diseases with an emphasis on war times, crises and terrorism. Moreover, we have been focusing on the historical and terminological aspects of insanity and accountability, as well as the biological determinism in psychiatry.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Following our previous interests, we plan to widen our research with specific diseases and mental health in times of crises. Primarily, we will tackle the issue of PTSD during and after the Croatian War of Independence, when this mental condition was the central concern for a wide range of fields, such as medicine, economy, sociology and politics. Our focus will be on the process of shaping the concept of PTSD, the perception of mental disease within medical community and the public, the politicization of PTSD and the terminological discussions around this issue.

Martin Kuhar

• Organisation: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Position: Senior scientific associate (MD, PhD in history of medical sciences)
• E-mail: mkuhar@hazu.hr