On April 4, 2025, Janka Kovács, postdoctoral researcher at our institute, gave a presentation at the hybrid workshop titled First-Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare, organized within the framework of the COST ACTION 22159 National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850–2000 project.
The event focused on patient-centred approaches in historical research. The workshop was hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean (Greece). As a member of the project, Janka Kovács also contributed to the planning and organization of the event.
In her presentation, titled "Blurred Boundaries: Patient Voices and the Construction of Mental Illness in Late Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Asylums", she examined the administrative technologies of psychiatric care in nineteenth-century Hungary and how these contributed to the production of knowledge about patients and their individual conditions.
