#birkbeckvoices

As part of a workshop hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group on Writing ‘Outsiders’ into the History of International Public Health, a roundtable discussion addressed what difference adding outsiders makes to the way historians write the history of public health and the history of internationalism more broadly. The discussion also questioned the adequacy of existing standard narratives of international public health and the ways in which historians can instead tell these narratives from below. The panel, chaired by Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck), included Susan Gross Soloman (Toronto), Peter Jackson (Glasgow), Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes) and Patrick Zylberman (EHESP). The workshop examined what impact factoring in “outsiders” would make to the way historians write the history of international public health. In addition, the workshop sought to ask what close study of “outsiders” and the processes of marginalisation can tell us about the international system of public health – its rules (wri