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"Medicine - Magic - Religion"
SSHM Annual Conference, Southampton, 17 - 18 July 2000
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This conference aims at a re-assessment of the boundaries and
intersections between medicine, magic and religion in the light of
* conceptual debates on the epistemological status of science and
medicine vis-a-vis magic and religion
* recent writing on 'colonial medicine' and on the
inter-relationships, hegemonic tendencies and conceptual
incompatibilities of different cosmologies and systems of healing
* recent contributions by post-colonial and subaltern histories to
the
critique of dichotomous categories such as 'East' versus 'West',
'rationality' versus 'irrationality', 'science' versus 'belief'
* the rise of 'alternative' medicine in western countries and its
construction as a 'holistic' and more 'spiritual' alternative to
'scientifically' based bio-medicine.
* the current upsurge of scholarly interest in the area of pre-modern
history of medicine
It is intended to bring together historians and social scientists
working on the development of medical theories and practices
during different periods of time and within diverse cultural contexts.
***Preliminary Programme***
Berel Dov Lerner (Israel): "The philosophical debate on ma gic and
religion"
Peregrine Horden (UK): "Magical healing in late antiquit y and the early
Middle Ages: the question of accessibility"
David Harley (USA): "Medicine, magic and religion: are t hey really
different?"
P. J. Martyr (Australia): "Magic and the occult in Aust ralian nineteenth-
century healing"
Judith Raftery (Australia): "Indigenous Australians, Rel igion and
Health"
Claudia Liebeskind (USA): "Medicine and miracles: hakims , sufis and
healing, India from c. 1800 to 1950"
Warren M. Cochran (Australia): "Ancestors and demons: re ligious
conviction and the development of Chinese medical epistemology"
Angelika Messner (Germany): "Explanations and practices regarding
madness in Chinese medical history"
Shang-Jen Li (UK): "Miraculous surgery in a heathen land: medi cal
missions in nineteenth-century China"
Rosemary Fitzgerald (UK): "Piety and Physic: women, medi cine and
missions in colonial India, 1860-1914"
Anne Digby and Helen Sweet (UK): "Medics, magic and miss ionaries:
nurses as culture brokers. South Africa, c. 1900-1960"
Julie Parle (South Africa): "Witchcraft or madness? The 'Amandiki' of
Zululand, 1894-1914"
James D. Alsop (Canada): "Distant locales and sovereign remedies in
the British Imperial experience, 1550-1800"
Ed VanMaire (UK): "Indeterminate boundaries between 'sci ence' and
'tradition' in British herbalism"
Christina Harrington (UK): "Healing in twentieth-century Pagan
witchcraft: medieval Galenic medicine revived"
Zeljko Dugac (Croatia): "Ex-voto offerings: uniting reli gion, magic and
medicine"
Nadav Davidovitch (USA): "To save science from materiali sm -
Homeopathy and Swedenborgianism in early twentieth-century America"
Rhodri Hayward (UK): "Demonology and medicine in Edwardi an
Britain"
Ralph Drayton (USA): Learned medicine, astral magic, and popular
religion in the later Middle Ages: the case of astrological talismans at
the University of Montpellier"
Lea Olsan (USA): "Charms and prayers in medieval medical practice"
Peter Murray Jones (UK): Devotion, power and protection - amulets in
late medieval medicine"
Iona McCleery (UK): "Friar Giles and the Devil: Medicine and magic in
medieval Spain and Portugal"
Rebekka Von Mallinckrodt (Germany): " Religious and medi cal lines
of argumentation in seventeenth-century self-help books"
Tricia Laing (New Zealand): "Feminist reflections on w hite women's
agency in the suppression of Maori healing"
Brian Durrans and Sara Pimpaneau (UK): "Feng Shui as mag ic in
contemporary Britain"
Robert Wallis (UK): "Neo-Shamans, trance and healing in modern
Western society"
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Bookings sho uld arrive no later than ***1 April 2000***. You
are advised to register in time as the conference venue can only
accommodate a maximum of 90 participants.
Further details and abstracts are available:
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~history/about.html#Conferences
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~sshm/confs.htm
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Dr Waltraud Ernst
Department of History
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
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Tel: 01703-596648
Fax: 01703-593458
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