Wanted: PhD Candidate
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Department of History, at Maastricht University and Sociaal Historisch Centrum voor Limburg (SHCL) are looking for a phd candidate for the research project 'Escaping bad health and early death. Inequalities and time lags in the Maastricht health transition, 1864-1955'. 1 fte, 4 years.
Over the past 200 years revolutionary changes in health and aging have fundamentally altered the way we live and die. The great escape from bad health and early death has however created new and persisted inequalities in health and life expectancy, primarily along social and educational lines. This project aims to unravel the historical development of health inequalities in the city of Maastricht in the period between 1866 and 1955, as well as the time lag in the city's path towards modern health as compared to the rest of the country.
The city of Maastricht offers an excellent case for a study into the modernization of health and life expectancy. A deep process of industrialization and urbanization created a dynamic urban environment characterized by high disease loads, increasing pressures on residential quarters, and increasing social inequalities.
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