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>
> Call for Papers: Social medicine, medical geography and health care
> for indigenous populations: "Ethnic Pathology" (Max Kuczynski,
> 1925) in Germany, Russia, Latin America and beyond. International
> Workshop, November 24 - 26, 2006, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen,
> Germany
>
> Dedline for Abstracts: July 31, 2006
>
> Aims of the workshop
> The goal of the workshop is to gather scholars from various
> countries and disciplines (e. g. history of medicine, general
> history, medical anthropology and public health) for a joint
> analysis of the concept of "ethnic pathology", developed by the
> German-Peruvian pathologist, bacteriologist and
> social hygienist Max Kuczynski (Berlin, 1890 - Lima, 1967).
> Designed as a means to grasp social and cultural as well as
> physical and biological aspects of disease during especially
> seminal period of medical history (1920s to 1950s), the "ethnic
> pathology" approach raises important questions to
> understand the theoretical and methodological challenges for health
> care and research, especially in rural and indigenous populations.
> Rooted in different medical traditions and scientific currents of
> late 19th and early 20th century (like medical geography, social
> medicine, bacteriology and
> hygiene, as well as pathology, social and cultural anthropology),
> the "ethnic pathology"-approach will be taken as starting point for
> a broad examination of the development, transnational extension and
> local adaptation of social medicine, hygiene and related fields in
> the first half of the 20th
> century. Further, the remarkable international dimension of
> Kuczynski's research activities in Europe, Central Asia and Latin
> America will lead to a comparative perspective and an examination
> of the interaction of European and German medicine in the non-
> industrialized world during the first half of
> the 20th century. The conference will devote special attention to
> the interdisciplinary and multinational health approaches to social
> and ethnic diversity.
>
> Background: "ethnic pathology" (M. Kuczynski, 1925)
> The concept of "ethnic pathology" ("ethnische Pathologie") was
> developed by Max H. Kuczynski in the first half of the 1920s. At
> that time, he was professor of pathology at the University of
> Berlin, and undertook a number of expeditions to Poland, Russia and
> Central Asia (Mongolia, China) and Brazil
> to investigate the influence of geography, climate, social aspects
> and ethnicity on the occurrence of diseases. During these
> expeditions, he used different research techniques such as autopsy,
> bacteriological and clinical examinations, and ethnographic
> observations and interviews. Due to his Jewish
> family background, Kuczynski was forced to leave Germany in 1933.
> He changed his name (signing now as Maxime Kuczynski-Godard) and
> finally settled down in Peru in 1936. In Lima, he joined the
> Institute for Social Medicine at San Marcos University, and until
> 1948 worked on behalf of the Peruvian
> government in the Amazon and the Andes. Kuczynski defined as
> "ethnic pathology" his comprehensive medical research as well as
> locally and culturally adapted health interventions for indigenous
> rural populations.
>
> Structure and subjects of the workshop
> The workshop will be divided thematically into three main themes:
> 1. "Ethnic pathology": the genealogy of an interdisciplinary
> approach in scientific medicine. The historical analysis of the
> "ethnic pathology"-approach raises questions about the relation
> between pathology, social medicine and social hygiene. On a more
> general level, this leads to inquire for the
> place of social, cultural, ethnic and geographical aspects within
> scientific medicine.
>
> 2. International perspectives: Germany, Central Asia (Russia) and
> Latin America. By the example of the "ethnic pathology"-approach,
> German and European international relations in medicine in the
> first half of the 20th century will be addressed, with special
> focus on issues of reception and
> adaptation of imported knowledge in different geographical
> contexts. A theme that will be analyzed is how the so-called
> "periphery" receives medical influences from the "modern",
> industrialized world. The particular case of Kuczynski will be
> compared with the example of other scholars of German
> origin with outstanding international activities like Adolpho Lutz
> (1855-1940, Switzerland/Germany-Hawaii-Brazil).
>
> 3. The legacy: medical research and health care for social and
> culturally heterogeneous populations then and now. At the beginning
> of the third millennium, cultural diversity in health care, and the
> spread of, for example, infectious diseases in socially
> marginalized communities, or health care
> inequities related to social and economic changes and migration,
> are issues of major importance. The questions addressed by
> Kuczynski and other actors with similar interests in the first half
> of the last century, are still important. Achievements as well as
> failures of the recent past can provide
> important contributions for a comprehensive understanding of
> current problems.
>
> Contributions are welcome to all the three subject areas identified
> above, as well as works on the diffusion of European social
> medicine beyond the European continent. Papers focussing on "ethnic
> pathology" and similar approaches in the Asian context (Russia,
> Central Asia) would be especially
> appreciated. Until present, the following scholars have confirmed
> participation: J. Benchimol and M. Romero (Rio de Janeiro), I.
> Borowy (Rostock), J. Comelles (Tarragona), S. Gross Solomon
> (Toronto), W. Eckart (Heidelberg), A. Kroeger (WHO, Geneva), J. P.
> Murillo (Lima), E. Quevedo (Bogotá), C.-R.
> Prüll (Freiburg), J. Richter (Berlin), E. Rodriguez-Ocaña
> (Granada), V. Roelcke (Gießen), P. Weindling (Oxford).
>
> Deadline for abstracts
> Abstracts (300 words, English) should be submitted to Marcos Cueto
> ([log in to unmask]) or Michael Knipper
> ([log in to unmask]) until July 31, 2006.
> Successful applications will be notified by September 1. The
> organizers are able to offer a number of travel and accommodation
> costs, especially from graduate students and scholars applying from
> developing countries, thanks to the support of the workshop by the
> Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
>
> The workshop will take place at Justus-Liebig-Universität in
> Gießen, Germany, located approx. 70km in the north of Frankfurt/
> Main. The presentation of papers and discussion will be in English.
> Dr. Michael Knipper, Institute for the History of Medicine, Justus-
> Liebig-Universität Gießen, Jheringstr. 6, 35392 Gießen, Germany
> Prof. Marcos Cueto, PhD, Department of Sociomedical Sciences,
> School of Public Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Av.
> Honorio Delgado 430, Lima, Peru
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>
>

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