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How to dispose of the disposables? Single-use plastics and the making of medical waste

At the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health conference, Jeremy Greene examined how the 1960s disposable revolution created vast medical waste, raising environmental and health concerns.

Presentations

Making disposables irresistible: advertising single-use medical masks in the 1960s

At the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health conference, Bruno J. Strasser examined how disposable medical masks replaced reusable ones, with significant environmental impacts.

Presentations

When sterilisation was modern: labour and infrastructures of reuse in mid-20th century hospitals

At the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health conference, Eloïse Richard examined how 20th-century hospital sterilisation changes reshaped labour and hospital infrastructures.

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From hospital sterilisation to global production networks: the hidden costs of disposability in medicine

At the 2025 European Association for the History of Medicine and Health conference, Anne Kveim Lie examined the shift from in-house sterilisation labour to hazardous factory work.

Outputs content

How to dispose of the disposables? Single-use plastics and the making of medical waste

Making disposables irresistible: advertising single-use medical masks in the 1960s

When sterilisation was modern: labour and infrastructures of reuse in mid-20th century hospitals

From hospital sterilisation to global production networks: the hidden costs of disposability in medicine

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