This international conference is organized by working group 3 “Patients” of the COST-Action “CA22159 – National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 (EuroHealthHist)”. It brings together innovative scholarship on the experiences of patients from the 19th century up to the Covid pandemic. The variety of talks mirror the diversity of patient experiences throughout modern history. Over the course of this 2-day event, we will discuss how both notions and the treatment of patients shifted over time and space, in a broad comparative approach. We furthermore seek to address and discuss in this conference the place of the history of patients within the general history of health and healthcare. Within this framework, this conference offers to engage with to central questions of patient history: Firstly, what the history of patients can add to our knowledge of the history of health and healthcare, secondly, how patients have actually contributed to alter notions of health and practices of medical care.